'A footprint means pressing down and global means world, so 'global footprint' means pressing down on the world and we don't want to press too hard' (child's definition of a Global Footprint)

Taking action as a student or a teacher

Help to reduce your Global Footprint and that of your school and family by getting active. Learn more about taking action:

  • Putting Your Foot Down - Issues Explore how you can take action through the exploration of the global themes on this site
  • You too can take action offers suggestions that children from Primary Schools in Tower Hamlets have thought they could do to make the world a better place.

 

HEC promotes action for change on all levels, individually, as teachers and students, as a school, in communities and globally.

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Some countries have experienced dumping where farmers from rich countries flood their markets with cheap imports such as rice, tomatoes and chickens pushing prices even lower.

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