A highlight of the Attorney General’s Department funding of activities in partnership with the Australian Council for Human Rights Education has been the unexpected regional reach. As part of the broadening the Citizen for Humanity program one Australian secondary school, St Norbert College in Perth, submitted a project to ACHRE that included collaboration with a secondary school in Timor-Leste. The creative project lead by St Norbert College Arts Teacher Ms. Amanda Marsh, involved an art competition where students would select a human right and depict its meaning via drawings. The students in each school would hear the stories and select awardees. As Osso-Huna School in regional Baguia Timor-Leste, did not have any art supplies in their school, a part of the project funding provided for art supplies to be donated, during a pre-arranged visit by ACHRE president Dr. Lynda Blanchard. The certificates were also translated into the national language of Tetum as a teaching resource and to recognise this 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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Artist: Ms. Amelie Anderson, (17 years) , Perth, Australia.
