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WHAT CAN WE
DO TO HELP THIS
RULE HAPPEN?
Have a collection
Have a non – Have a cake sale
uniform day at Fundraising
school Have a school
talent show
20/20 initiative
At the same summit some governments agreed that
20% of aid and 20% of the budget of the developing
country receiving that aid would be spent on basic
services.
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Aid
Access to basic services for everyone would cost
approximately $US40 billion more per year than is
spent now. This is 0.1% of world income. World
military spending is $US780 billion per year. US$50
billion is spent on cigarettes in Europe every year.
Fair trade
Fair trade guarantees higher, more stable prices for
third world producers. Look out for products with a
Fairtrade Mark.
Day in the life of a Kenyan child
Hello! My name is Irene Kagunda. I am ten years
old.
I live in a town called Soweto, in Kenya. Kenya is in
Africa.
My town
Come and visit my town. Our houses in
Soweto are small and very close together.
Most have no water or electricity. Many
people use paraffin (a kind of oil) to make
lamps so that they can see in the evenings.
My family
There are three children. I am the youngest. My
mum is called Joyce. She runs a kiosk (a small
shop) that sells paraffin and other household
goods.
CAFOD’s partners in Soweto gave mum a loan to
help her to sell more things in her shop. Now she
can afford to buy better food and clothes for me.
She can afford to buy me school books too.
My school
I go to Riverine Primary School. There are 170 children at
the school. My classroom is bright and happy. It has an
iron roof with a skylight to let the sunshine in.
The classroom walls are decorated with the letters of the
alphabet and with colourful paintings of animals and
transport. We sit on wooden benches.
I go to school in the afternoons. There are not enough
schools in Soweto for all the children to attend school for
the whole day.
School Fees
My school fees are 4500 Kenya shillings (about £30) a
term. The teaching is free, but the building, caretaker,
books, uniform, and paper all have to be paid for.
This is how I spend my day
It’s 2km to school and I walk there every day with my auntie. We
get lunch at school – usually sukumawiki and ugali (greens and
maize-meal porridge).
Maths is my best subject. I like my teacher Miss Wanjiku. She
helps us with things we don’t understand. Going to school will help
me learn things. After that I want to be a nurse.
I get home at about 5pm and do my homework for an hour. Then I
help my mum with washing the pots and pans. Sometimes I go out
to play. I like skipping.
When we skip we sing a song called ‘superstyle’ which means that
while you’re skipping someone calls out a style and you have to
do it – for example, you have to put your hands behind your head.
If I don’t go out to play I help my mum in the shop. I sell paraffin
when she has to do other things.
Poverty! what is that?
Poverty doesn't know your age, or the colour of your skin, he
doesn't even care about the poor state that you're in.
He doesn't want to know, if you're hungry, or you're cold, he just
keeps calm and quiet, while head bent you hold.
Many who have met him? are still with him today, not through
their own choices, but by him not giving way.
Desperately needing clothes or shoes, so into purse you peer,
you'll
have to wait another week, or visit charities you fear.
He knows you've little money, and this he never defends, he knows
you'll have to borrow, from loan sharks, or from friends
He doesn't even blink an eye, when you're worse off than before,
he
swears, that it's your own fault, you must have known the score.
“The amount of money the
UK spends
On chocolate each year
could make Africa
NOT live in poverty”