WHAT ARE STUDENT ACTION COMMITTIEES?

1. Principles of SACs:

The Student Action Committee is an important element in educating students to become active members of civil society. The SAC is a group of students, organized with the support of School Administration and regulated by its charter (organization), which aims to solve problems in its local community. The students should establish SACs using the support from school administrators, teacher, who will later act as mentors under the direction of the student action committee.

The SACs primary goal is to learn about their local community, its problems and how it works. Once they have learned this they should choose a problem to address and devise a manner to solve that problem. The SAC should not gauge their success or failure based on whether or not they were able to solve the problem but on their effort into addressing it and the attention they drew to the problem.

Creation of SAC is aimed to achieve the following purposes:

- SACs should build bridges that allow for interaction between them and organization such as: local government bodies, student-government, NGOs and social organizations.
- To teach students about the importance of active participation in civil society.
- To teach about Democratic principles and governance while getting experience dealing with the participants therein.
- To learn about their local community and address problems there.
- To gain practical experience and to work as a team.

Student Action Committee structure consist of:

President – is responsible about the SAC activities. The pre sident represents the SAC at official meetings and events, issues orders and instructions.

Council – consults with the president about SAC activities, plans, finances and goals.

Treasurer – fulfills the SAC’s financial responsibilities.

Secretary – is responsible for reporting about the SAC activities to the school administration, take attendance in each meeting and send notes to the office.