Social and Environmental
Responsibility
Life Orientation
Grade 10
, Life Orientation
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
Definitions:
Food security: everybody has access to enough safe, healthy and nutritious food
to meet they dietary needs and preferences.
Basic services: electricity, water, sanitation and refuse removal; these services
are provided by municipalities.
Basic health services: immunization, mother and chid care services, antenatal
and postnatal care including family planning, sexually transmitted disease
disease care, treatment for minor ailment, mental health, school health,
treatment of chronic diseases (eg hypertension, and diabetes), treatment of
communicable diseases (eg tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS), oral health, and the
provision of essential drugs.
Poverty: to be too poor to pay for your basic needs.
Social thinking skills: skills that enable you to consider the views of other, to
understand how to behave in society, and to express care and concern towards
others.
Constructive: helpful
Constructive thinking skills: skills that let you think in helpful ways.
Volunteerism: working on behalf of others without payment for your time and
services; performing an act of kindness; freely giving of your talent, time and
effort.
Civic: relating to citizenship or being a citizen.
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Responsibility
Life Orientation
Grade 10
, Life Orientation
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
Definitions:
Food security: everybody has access to enough safe, healthy and nutritious food
to meet they dietary needs and preferences.
Basic services: electricity, water, sanitation and refuse removal; these services
are provided by municipalities.
Basic health services: immunization, mother and chid care services, antenatal
and postnatal care including family planning, sexually transmitted disease
disease care, treatment for minor ailment, mental health, school health,
treatment of chronic diseases (eg hypertension, and diabetes), treatment of
communicable diseases (eg tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS), oral health, and the
provision of essential drugs.
Poverty: to be too poor to pay for your basic needs.
Social thinking skills: skills that enable you to consider the views of other, to
understand how to behave in society, and to express care and concern towards
others.
Constructive: helpful
Constructive thinking skills: skills that let you think in helpful ways.
Volunteerism: working on behalf of others without payment for your time and
services; performing an act of kindness; freely giving of your talent, time and
effort.
Civic: relating to citizenship or being a citizen.
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