About us

Kent and the Wider World is a project of Commonwork (www.commonwork.org), a registered charity as well as an organic farm and study centre, working towards sustainable solutions in farming, the environment and education.

Kent and the Wider World is one of 45 development education centres in the UK and is affiliated to the Development Education Association (www.dea.org.uk).

Kent and the Wider World is a member of Local4Global, a consortium of organisations in the London and South East Region, supporting the global dimensions within schools. Local4Global receives funding from the Department for International Development, www.local4global.org.uk.

Kent and the Wider World is supported by:

Christian Aid, Church in Society, Commonwork, Oxfam, the Poverty and Hope appeals in the Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester and UK Department for International Development (DfID).

Global Citizenship/Global Dimension

We live in one world. What we do in Kent, Medway or the UK affects others and what others around the world do affects us as never before. Globalisation affects the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the food we eat, the jobs we do, and our environment.

To recognise that we are all members of a world community and that we all have responsibilities to each other is a modern reality. It is therefore important for our children to learn about and understand the world they live in, so that they can be better global citizens.

Oxfam's definition of a global citizen is someone who:

is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen;
respects and values diversity;
has an understanding of how the world works economically, politically, socially, culturally, technologically and environmentally;
is outraged by social injustice;
participates in and contributes to the community at a range of levels from local to global;
is willing to act to make the world a more sustainable place;
takes responsibility for their actions.

(Oxfam 1997)

Kent and the Wider World is a Commonwork project.
Commonwork is a registered charity no. 275151.
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