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My Global Issue

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How Food Poverty Affects Children's Access To Basic Human Rights
Children are the most affected by hunger with 3 million dying of it each year. Food poverty negatively impacts children's physical and cognitive development which makes it a very big global problem due to the fact that todays children are the future. So, if they are underdeveloped our society will be too. SDG 2 aims to end food poverty and malnutrition completely by 2030.

My activity will help contribute to my chosen global issue because I will use the money raised in my cake sale to buy essential food stuffs and donate them to my local foodbank to be given out locally, to children in Pembrokeshire who are in need and struggle to afford basic food, harming their development.

United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 2

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The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, aims to create a world free of hunger and ensure access to nutrition for all people by 2030

My Community

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I chose to target children facing food poverty as it is a very big problem worldwide and something very personally close to my heart. I think it is important that children are fed properly and get the right nutrition needed for their developing bodies. Children are the future and if an increasing amount of children aren't getting the food required to develop and sustain a healthy body and brain then the world's future is in danger. If more people in the next generation are underdeveloped then a major downfall in society and the economy is inevitable. Due to this, I think SDG 2 is a very important goal and that it should be taken very seriously by the government and others.

My community activity aims to raise awareness and money for children living in food poverty. Alongside this, my activity aims to provide food for the local children of Pembrokeshire who are also facing food poverty.

My Community Activity

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Volunteering at PATCH Charity - 8 hours
Manning a joint stall at the College Christmas Fair - 6 hours
Donating food to local food bank PATCH - 1 hour

Skills Audit Feedback

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Myers Briggs Test Feedback:

Upon completing the Myers Briggs Test, I found that I am a very emotionally driven person. This may be what contributes to my passion for the importance of SDG 2. This passion, however, can lead to me overcomplicating situations without realising it due to my care for everybody's feelings and opinions. This makes me a good team worker. The test also revealed I am constantly seeking self improvement making me a very driven and ambitious person.

123 Skills Audit Feedback:

According to the feedback from my 123 Skills Audit, I am most competent in being observant meaning I notice and act on signals quickly making my a good overseer of activities. The test also said I was good at taking the initiative causing me to always try something if it feels right even if it may entail a risk. Analysis was another of my main skills, allowing me to make connections from complex information and quickly understand the crux of a difficult problem. Adding on to this, the test said I was good at decision making enabling me to weigh things up in situations and make the right decision in difficult situations. The test also showed I am a creative individual who is good at coming up with new ideas, approaches and solutions to problems making me a good team leader and problem solver.

Career Smart Test Feedback:

The Career Smart Test helped me to identify three main areas I feel that I should personally work on and develop. These include:

Self management - managing and organising my time better to ensure I meet deadlines
Technological skills - using apps like Microsoft to create and produce spreadsheets to present information and data
Self confidence - improve on public speaking

Enterprise Catalyst Test Feedback:

My Enterprise Catalyst Test feedback revealed my three core qualities that help me in different aspects of my life. They are:

Motivation and drive - success and achievement is important to me but so is validation and when I don't receive that I can get frustrated showing I constantly want to be doing well and feel like I'm improving
Capacity to self determine - I have a strong belief that I can make things happen and I put in effort and take responsibility to make sure they do happen which helps me to succeed and create the life I want without relying on luck
Willingness to learn - I view myself as someone who is able to adapt to change and willing to learn new ways of doing things making me a good learner and a good candidate for multiple things as ways in which we do things is constantly changing and developing

Personal Values Test Feedback:

The Personal Values Test provided me with my top five most important values to me personally. The test showed I value Love the most making me a very motivated person for action and change regarding issues I am passionate about. According to the feedback I received, I also value peace which gives me openness to allow people to express their views and opinions around me. It also means I try and resolve conflicts quickly without escalating them and making problems worse making me a good team worker. Loyalty is another thing I value. This means I am consistent in my views and beliefs so as to try not to break trust. The fact that I value Family gives me a strong source of motivation to better myself no matter what I am doing. The test also revealed I value Health contributing to my disciplined and systematic approaches to situations.

Personality Perfect Test Feedback:

The feedback I received from the Personality Perfect Test showed that I am warm and genuinely interested in people and am able to connect and understand how others feel. I also enjoy being around other people. The feedback says I don't like tasks I feel mundane and boring and would prefer doing something to help develop my skills. The test also revealed I am able to understand and grasp difficult concepts and theories with ease. The test revealed I am an ENFP personality type meaning I am highly individualistic and strive to create my own methods and ways of doing things. Similarly to in previous audit tests I took, this test also said I operate based on my feelings and am a very intuitive and perceptive person. According to the personality test, I need time to centre myself around what I am doing by myself to allow me to enjoy and get into it making sure it aligns with my own personal values. Again, similar to feedback from others audits, I am a very motivated individual who can use this motivation to help motivate others. The test also agreed that I seek confirmation and validation to make me feel stable and secure in relationships and situations and when I recieve this validation I put even more effort and energy into whatever it is.

Skills Improvement

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My Skills Improvement document talks about all of the skills I need in order to complete my community activities and how I can improve these skills.

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Time Management

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In order to make sure I managed my time efficiently, I organised my volunteering hours on Thursdays, my study day as PATCH is closed on the weekends so I was unable to do it then. I also made a plan to organise and set objectives to help me meet my aim using GANTT CHARTS. If in case for some reason I was unable to complete the Christmas fair, I would have been able to do the stall at another one of the regular College fairs. If my partner was unable to help me with the stall, then I would have been able to get one of my friends to help me.

Resource Management

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I rang PATCH to organise my volunteering hours. They told me I had to speak to them in person so I planned that I would volunteer working in the shop from 10am to 2pm on Thursdays, my study day. I would have preferred to volunteer in the food bank but it was closed on Thursdays, so that wasn't possible. I wasn't able to volunteer on weekends either as the shop is closed. This meant I had to volunteer on two Thursdays. I also had to organise when the food bank was open to accepting donations. I had to make my donations after the Christmas holidays as the food bank was filled with holiday donations. I bought the food for the hamper using the money I raised in my joint stall from the College Christmas Fair which totalled £24.60. I presented the food in a hamper which I already had. For the stall at the fair, me and my partner had a budget of £10 to spend on cakes and packaging. We spent £3 on mince pies, £1.25 on cornflake and shortcake bites each. We also spent £1.50 on Christmas cakes and £1 on muffins. We then spent 75p on paper plates and napkins and used the remaining £1.25 for the float to give change to customers.

Risk Management

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I had to buy all of the food I sold at my stall as otherwise I would need to bake it in a health and safety tested kitchen by someone who has a level 3 in health and food safety and allergen awareness to ensure the food is safe and not contaminated. I also, when making the food hamper, I had to make sure none of the food contained common allergens.

Quality Management

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In order to make sure that my community activity was effective and offered a good service, I created a form using Microsoft Forms and sent it out to people who I aimed to impact by my campaign.

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Reflection and Evaluation of my Active Task

Self Assessment Report

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My Self Assessment Report talks in detail of all the skills audits I have completed within the past year.

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