Product Overview
Please note: This study guide contains two versions – a full-colour guide and a text-only version for printing and referencing.
Helping Hands is more than a television show; it’s a purpose-led communication and storytelling platform dedicated to social good. The program partners with people in Australia who make the world a better place, and use the media to produce education resources that make an immediate, short-term and generational impact for social good.
More information on the program can be found here.
Curriculum Links:
Helping Hands can be linked to the following subject areas within the Australian Curriculum:
- Civics and Citizenship
- Economics and Business
- English
- Health and Physical Education
- Media Arts
It would also be relevant to the General Capabilities:
- Ethical Understanding
- Personal and Social Capability
- Literacy
- Critical and Creative Thinking
Helping Hands provides opportunities for students to:
- Investigate how individuals, charities and social enterprises work to address issues such as domestic violence, homelessness and community wellbeing.
- Explain the social challenges faced by people experiencing domestic and family violence, including barriers to safety, housing and independence.
- Analyse how different organisations provide support services such as safe housing, crisis assistance, legal support and community programs.
- Examine how documentary storytelling uses interviews, statistics, personal stories and visual imagery to communicate powerful social messages.
- Explore how compassion, listening and practical support can help individuals rebuild dignity, confidence and independence.
- Develop empathy and ethical understanding by considering the lived experiences of people affected by domestic violence and homelessness.
- Evaluate how communities, governments and individuals can contribute to preventing violence and supporting vulnerable people.
- Create their own media texts, campaigns or social enterprise ideas that raise awareness and propose solutions to real-world social issues.
