Resources for Teachers
Explore global issues with our resources downloadable below.
why aid is important
#DontForget is a campaign highlighting the importance of international development aid in 2025. At a time when overseas aid is under threat, we shouldn’t forget the value of this work.
Distance Learning
We have adapted our content to meet changing needs and have produced a series of Distance Learning resources. They include content suitable for student-led activities or teacher-led activities in a classroom setting. Each topic has an equivalent workshop that can be facilitated by our team.
Teacher Toolkits
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Our Teacher Toolkit pack was developed from workshops we have been delivering in schools throughout Ireland and addresses challenges faced by teachers wishing to explore connections to global issues in their classrooms. Our guidelines incorporate the active learning process, making connections between local and global, and taking action. |
Exhibitions
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Our exhibitions explore climate change, gender equality and trade justice from the point of view of the communities we work with in Africa. They are available for display at your school with connected workshops and quizzes, and our virtual exhibitions can be viewed below. |
Africa Adapting
Africa Adapting is an exhibition that illustrates how communities in sub-Saharan Africa are changing how they work to cope with the effects of a changing climate.
There is a digital version of the exhibition at this link. We also have a physical version that we can bring to exhibit at your school.
Women on the Frontline
Women on the Frontline is a visual exhibition that tells the stories of African women who are leading local efforts to adapt to a changing climate.
There is a digital version of the exhibition at this link. You can get in touch and we can also bring the exhibition to your school to display.
Two Villages
Nsunda and Malela are two quiet villages in a remote corner of Zambia’s Northern Province The people are poor. They have limited access to the outside world and, in the main, they struggle, from year to year, to make ends meet.
For five years, Self Help Africa visited the villages and followed the lives of its people. What follows, are their stories…
Useful Links & Resources
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You can access a host of other resources from the organisations below. They each provide valuable materials that can help you to bring Development Education activities alive in your classroom. |
DevelopmentEducation.ie
DevelopmentEducation.ie is an online resource focused on the unequal and unjust shape of the world today. It provides a broad range of downloadable resources that can help educators bring Development Education and social justice issues alive in the classroom.
Scoil Net
Scoilnet is the Department of Education's official portal for Irish education. Scoilnet.ie contains a database of over 24,000+ online resources including websites, quizzes, lesson plans, notes, video/audio, games and other multimedia. You can access our resources from the blue search box. Self Help Africa's resources are also available here.
WorldWise Global Schools
Irish Aid’s WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) is Ireland’s national Global Citizenship Education (GCE) programme for post-primary schools. The organisation encourages and supports schools to bring GCE into the classroom, and provides grants to support these activities.
Further Resources
For more information on Development Education and Global Citizenship, or additional resources to use in your classroom, we recommend visiting the external websites listed below.
