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| Making your cut-out
"Friends" When to make the cut-outs If you are sending cut-outs to a central location as part of a national or state/provincial Pledge Event, the cut-out making activity may have to take place before the Action Week in order to allow enough time for the Friends to be collected and transported to the event location. Contact your national or state organising committee for more information. How to make the cut-outs Using paper, card, cloth, newspaper, old packaging or whatever materials you can find locally, draw around a child (or adult) or draw the shape of a human figure and cut it out. For maximum impact try not to make the cut-out too small - don't forget it is supposed to symbolise a real child or adult! Who you want your cut-out to represent is entirely up to you, it could be a person you know that needs an education - you / your mother / sister / neighbour - or a made-up person based on several different real life experiences (see the FAQs in the Planning Pack for the pros and cons of "real" vs. "fictional" cut-outs). We are encouraging as many cut-outs as possible to be girls or women, in view of the urgent need to reach the goal for gender parity in education. Filling in the front of your cut-out Just how elaborately you decorate the front of your cut-out depends completely upon your own imagination. You could use the cut-outs to showcase local costumes & traditions, activities that you enjoy, benefits of adult literacy, etc. See Box 1 below for more ideas. Each cut-out should include the core Action Week message, "Educate [Name of 'friend'] to End Poverty" or a variation on the core message such as: "Educate [Name] to Fight AIDS" , "Educate [Name] to Stop Child Labour", "Educate [Name] to End Child Deaths", "Educate [Name] to Empower Women" etc. It will be down to each individual or group making a cut-out to decide the issues to highlight. If you are making a cut-out as a group or class, you may want to use this as an opportunity to have a debate or discussion about the message on the front. Filling in the back of your cut-out On the back of the cut-out please write the "Friend of Education" pledge for politicians to sign. To count towards the Global Pledge, the following words must be included:
Adding a National Pledge Organisations collaborating on the national Action Week plans may want to agree on some additional text to be added to all pledges in your country, which focus on specific issues of national importance. If the cut-out is going to be given to a politician during a Back to School event or a national or state lobby event, leave some extra space on the back of the cut-out to record any specific promises that the politician makes during this event. You can write these and ask him/her to initial, or ask him/her to write them personally. Please write the name(s) and address of those who made the Friend in a small, but clearly legible space somewhere on the back. That way, you can ask MPs/politicians to write back to you within six months to tell you what they have done to keep their pledge commitments.
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