Aim: To map yourself relative to your family and community. To identify the community assets that are available to the group members.
Materials needed: Photocopy with community outlines (own home, police, park, supermarket, hospital/clinic, school, church, fire
brigade), different community members printed on cardboard, cardboard, old magazines, scissors, glue and crayons
Time: 30 minutes
Instructions:
1) Ask the children if they know what an asset is?
Explain that an asset is a gift, a strength or ability. It helps making life easier for a person. We all have lots of assets in our lives, but
we have to look for them carefully. Our family, our friends, our school, our neighbors, our community hospital, our church, to name
a few, are all assets in our life. We also have a lot of assets in ourselves. Some of us can run fast, or sing beautifully, or understand
sums, or are good readers, or are pretty or handsome.
2) Ask the children to name some of their assets.
(Facilitate the discussion to draw on as many assets as possible with each child.)
-How do I look like?
Ask the child to draw a picture of himself or herself on any part of the pre-outlined community map and to write his or her name next
to his or her drawing.
-Where do I live?
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