"Before you finish eating breakfast this morning you've depended on more than half the world". So said Martin Luther King, the great US civil rights activist. He was encouraging us to think about how we are connected to people throughout the world, and how our lifestyles can impact on those who live far away. Who grew the corn or the sugar beet for your breakfast cereal and what kinds of lives do they lead? Who in the Congo went down a mine to collect the minerals within your mobile phone that woke you this morning? From this week a new set of Global Citizenship lessons are being taught to S3 pupils in PSE classes, encouraging them to think more critically about how the choices we make can affect people leading much less fortunate lives, and how we can become more responsible citizens.
