The Greek School Team implemented the following community-change missions:
Spreading Awareness: Dangers of Smoking
” ‘But how can there be people that smoke when they know all of these bad things about smoking?’ was the reaction of our classmate during our investigations related to the dangers of smoking. After we discussed it a little with our teacher, we realized that there will always be people that know that they hurt themselves by smoking but there may also be some of them that they do not know how bad it is for their health. This is why we decided to be AGENTS of CHANGE by informing students, parents and generally visitors of our school about the problems that smoking can cause and we created two big posters with all the information that we found and put them in the main hall of the school so everyone could see. We hope that by doing this, we will bring some change, and prevent some people from smoking or even persuade some of them to quit.”
— (Student narrative, mission description)
Environmental Action!
“There was a need to understand the perspectives of the local community on issues related to the local environment. From this local need, the school team embarked on a mission to investigate the local community views and how suitable action could be taken to tackle the issues identified. Awareness was raised in the local community about the two main problems of the city, as they were revealed from the analysis of the questionnaires: the garbage on the beaches and the traffic conjunction.”
— (School Team Lead Teacher Reflection, mission description)