2015 current affairs term 2 week 5

Beacon Current Affairs 2015

Term 2 Week 5

Who am I?

Names in the news Places in the news

Malala Yousafzai (pg8) Myanmar (pg20)

Words in the News

(pg4-5)shunnedvolunteerInternshipEmpower

(Pg8-9)assassination

AdvocatePhilanthropist

Gender inequality

(Pg16)informal

limited resourceshands-on

needy

(pg20)cry for helpstarvationbloodbank

In service to others (pg 4-5)

Many young people have felt the calling to help the less fortunate

Chan Wen Xin (right) is a volunteer with the Singapore Red Cross

She was on first-aid duty from 1.30 am to 9.30 am the day before Mr Lee’s state funeral

Read on and be inspired by how other teenagers are helping out in their own time

What is an activist? (pg 8-9)

An activist is someone in society who speaks up or takes action when they see problems that need to be fixed

Malala Yousafzai is an activist for female education

She is only 15, but has been the target of assassination

Read on to find out what many other good people around the world are doing to help change the world (for the better)

Joy of volunteering (pg 16)

Helping Joy is an informal group of volunteers who clean and paint homes of low-income families

The group was started after a discussion on how to help the needy with limited resources

We don’t need to be rich to help other people; we just need to have the heart

Helping others brings out the best in oneself (pg20)

Indonesian billionaire reads the newspapers for people in need of help

Famous footballer writes signatures of needy people on his chest

Security officer has donated blood at least 69 times

Art director visits orphanages in Myanmar to help less fortunate children

Look at page 12-15 of your LRD. Think of a problem in your neighbourhood or class or school,

and discuss what you can do about it

–Mr Ng