GC2 Extra: Loneliness Awareness Week

• Global Citizenship
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

GC:  Loneliness Awareness Week 

Goals for this lesson

After this lesson you..

- know what it feels like to do something for someone else. 

- are aware of someone else's feelings. 

What is loneliness? 

What is loneliness?

Loneliness, according to many experts, is not necessarily about being alone. Instead, if you are lonely, you feel alone and isolated.

Loneliness is not the same as solitude because solitude is simply the state of being apart from others.Not everyone who experiences solitude feels lonely. 

Who do you think can feel lonely?

What can you do about it?

postcard

You are going to create a nice postcard for someone who lives in an old people's home. 

Use colours/pictures (flowers?) and make it pretty.

Wish them a lovely day (in Dutch as most eldery people living in the old people's home don't speak a lot of English)

Upload a photo here. Share your illustration on the front of your card and the words you have written inside your card.

How did it feel to do something for someone else?

Would you do something like this again? why/why not?