Combat Poverty currently runs two public education programmes:

• Schools and Curriculum
• Child Poverty and Children's Health Inequalities

Schools and Curriculum

Combat Poverty believes that learning about poverty by students and teachers is an important way of creating awareness about poverty and building public support to eliminate it. Our schools and curriculum work promotes poverty awareness amongst second-level students and teachers includes:

• Ireland - A Level Playing Pitch? a Transition Year Unit validated by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment
• A website www.cspe.ie
• Counted Out, a teacher's resource for Civic, Social and Political Education
• Poverty the Curriculum and the Classroom, a project based in the City of Dublin Vocational Committee Curriculum Development Unit (CDU) - for further information see the CDU's website www.curriculum.ie

Child Poverty and Children's Health Inequalities

Initiated in 2003, this programme stimulates debate and understanding on the links between Irish child poverty and children's health inequalities and highlights effective initiatives that improve children's well being.

Combat Poverty also participated in the Open Your Eyes to Child Poverty Initiative which ran from 1999 to 2002. Under this initiative, eight national organisations worked together to promote public awareness of child poverty and to influence public policy in favour of children on low incomes. The other participating organisations were:

• Barnardos www.barnardos.ie
• Children's Rights Alliance www.childrensrights.ie
• Focus Ireland www.focusireland.ie
• National Youth Council of Ireland www.youth.ie
• Pavee Point www.paveepoint.ie
• People with Disabilities in Ireland www.pwdi.ie
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul www.svp.ie

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