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World Space Week 2002 Plans
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s Regional Programme of Education for Emergencies, Communication and Culture of Peace (PEER). are launching World Space Week with an educational programme in the Holl-Holl and Ali-Addeh refugee camps in Djibouti. During a two-day teacher training workshop and four days of school visits, a member of the Orbital Mechanics Educational Network (OMEN), a U.K. non-government organization, will teach a curriculum the Network has designed especially for children in developing countries. As well as giving children in the camps a basic understanding of space, explaining phenomena like the stars and the phases of the Moon that they see every day, the programme includes water and chemical rocket launches, building an equatorial sundial, and stargazing. In addition, 200 packages of educational material will be distributed to schools in the two camps in Djibouti, as well as to schools in Somalia. Among other things, each package includes a star chart designed especially for children in equatorial regions and donated by the National Planetarium of Malaysia; space colouring books donated by ESA; Solar System posters donated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and a political map of the World. The activity in Djibouti and Somalia was also made possible through generous sponsorship from the Governments of Austria and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. |
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