SPACE Program

Sustainable Production and Consumption Education (SPACE) Program; was organized in Karachi High School (KHS) from November 29 to December 5, 2019. As outputs of the intervention, students have been assigned short projects to produced comic strips, presentations and art work as an outcome of these series of activities.

Grade XI children were taken to a number of villages in Tando Mohammad Khan as part of the exposure to rural society, the inequities embedded in agriculture production under feudal structure. In addition, the issue of minority rights was a major component of the exposure trip.

Nearly every grade had a different activity as activities and modules were planned according to the age and classes of the children, so that they can understand and can participate fully. With Class IV the module was “Choosing from the Menu” and ‘Order a Meal”. Real food items were displayed which ranged from nutritious to ‘junk’ food. Children were asked to choose any three on the menu. A discussion followed on nutritious safe food versus junk food.

In addition, Grade IV students had collectively sown various vegetable seeds in small pots as part of their orientation to safe and nutritious methods of food production. They have been tasked to look after the pots that were donated to the school.

With Class V and VI, a slightly more advanced module was used which emphasized the pollution and chemical hazards associated with the current chemical-based industrial agriculture production.

Classes VII and VIII went through five different modules on Production and Consumption, Patriarchy, Globalization, Seed Sovereignty and Climate Change. The modules were more in depth and interactive.

Finally Classes IX and X and O Levels discussed “Structural Barriers to Equity and Justice.” The discussion centered on colonization, feudalism and globalization as economic systems and their impacts on society, especially rural.