Greyhounds In Need – Educating the Young

One of the most important tools to use in the fight against animal cruelty in Spain – and everywhere else, of course – is educating the younger generations. Many individual associations have their own programmes for doing this – talks in schools and youth centres, visits to refuges, hands-on caring for dogs in ‘out-of-school’ time. Greyhounds In Need have been working on an Education Programme which will shortly be available to associations. Read about it here – wait till the scroll box reaches the heading ‘Our Work In Spain’.

Here’s what Carolyn, President of GIN, says.

We hope that our educational booklet will get into schools and be taken up by the teachers as part of the curriculum. We have used educational consultants who have a done a lot of work for other charities on the education front and our book is designed to support Spanish primary school teachers, who teach English as a foreign language to children aged 9-12 years, across years 4-6.

What we have found in the Extremadura region where we first launched the book is that schools are now making contact asking for the book which is what we want. In the Castile-la-Mancha region things are beginning to get off the ground, also in Madrid.

Our CD-ROM is now being printed and this is basically the book put into a
powerpoint presentation so this should help and support teachers.’