ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This teaching guide was produced by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI), an independent non-profit organisation committed to realising the right to a nationality for all (www.institutesi.org). We hope that it will serve as inspiration and a practical tool for teachers, youth leaders, activists and NGOs to talk to children about borders, belonging, citizenship and rights – issues that matter to all of us. We especially hope that through exploring these issues with children, we will be able to bring about more positive change in promoting every child’s right to a nationality and addressing situations of childhood statelessness. Many people contributed to the development of this teaching guide. We would especially like to acknowledge: - Jehna Al-Moushahid, Belén Gómez Arredondo, Sed-Yee Michlyn Chung, Maria Ruzheynikova, Emma Tuininga and Felix Toggi Sames – a group of students who helped us to develop ideas for teaching activities and to gather inputs from teachers in different countries about what could be useful to include in the guide. - Ashley Walters, who worked on a first draft of the guide, bringing ideas to life in a creative way. - From ISI’s own team: Vera Karanika, Ileen Verbeek and Laura van Waas, who developed and structured the guide further, including drawing out relevant connections to the book The Girl Who Lost Her Country, as well as carefully reviewing and perfecting each activity, and the flow between them. Also, Ottoline Spearman for her assistance with copy-editing and Alena Jascanka for design and layouting. We would also like to thank: - Tony Daly, who provided expert guidance on how to approach teaching on citizenship and statelessness from the goals and objectives of human rights education, helping us to shape the guide in a way that is truly supportive of the development of knowledge, skills and values in relation to these issues. - Dian Pu for illustrating the cover and for the illustrations provided for The Girl Who Lost Her Country that are reproduced in this guide. - Greg Constantine for the use of his photographs in activities in the guide. - Deirdre Brennan for her collaboration in writing The Girl Who Lost Her Country and for providing an interview about that experience to be integrated into this teaching guide. - Everyone else who contributed advice, ideas and inspiration – including teachers who were interviewed or otherwise provided advice along the way, as well as the children with and without nationality who helped to shape The Girl Who Lost Her Country and whose experiences of the themes addressed in this teaching guide informed the focus of many of the activities. We are very grateful to our donors for supporting us to produce this guide: Stichting Weeshuis der Doopsgezinden and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. 87