Idea: Rich Here Poor There

 
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  • Created on: 05 Nov 2007
  • Idea status: Done and Dusted
  • Town: Camden, London
 

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What it's all about

Children living in the UK may not notice there are millions of people in the world who are striving for survival everyday. They are not asking for anything more than necessities that are needed to sustain their lives. According to some statistics from the Word Bank, more than 20 percent of the world population earns less than $1 a day. The figure is even more worrying when Africa is considered alone. 40 percent of the African population earns less than $1 a day.
The aim of the project is about raising students awareness of global poverty. Hopefully, after participating in the events, students will realise they are actually very lucky compared with people who live in poor countries and learn to treasure what they are having now. Probably in the future, they will come up with their own ways to help people in need.

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Why it was needed

Children living in the UK may not notice there are millions of people in the world who are striving for survival everyday. They are not asking for anything more than necessities that are needed to sustain their lives. According to some statistics from the Word Bank, more than 20 percent of the world population earns less than $1 a day. The figure is even more worrying when Africa is considered alone. 40 percent of the African population earns less than $1 a day.
The aim of the project is about raising students awareness of global poverty. Hopefully, after participating in the events, students will realise they are actually very lucky compared with people who live in poor countries and learn to treasure what they are having now. Probably in the future, they will come up with their own ways to help people in need.

What's being done

We are targeting children at prep school and junior high school. The main feature of this project is to educate students through eating experience! We’ll randomly divide students into three groups. The number of students in each group will be based on the proportion of income distribution in the real world. Students in each group will be served different kinds of food. We’ll also hire a speaker to talk about the issues surrounding global poverty, like health, sanitation, education. Small games can be played with children to increase their understanding to the subject.

How it started

In the very beginning, we'll contact different schools to see if they are interested in the project.

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Volunteers are needed to coordinate the events. There are lots to do!!

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  • Avatar Burffy 14:28, 06 November 2007 Hi there
    Although your idea sounds very interesting, you may encounter a lot of negatives from the schools at this specific time of the year. This is because there is a lot of new regulations around food and menus circulating schools
    Of course what you are trying to do is to actually encourage a positive value around food and other arenas od life-style; nevertheless some headmasters/teachers may be busy enough as it is (at the moment)?
    Here is a little link I found with the latest news around food at schools. It may help you to gain an idea of your possibilites

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/schoolmeals.shtml

    In addition, not too long I contacted a group of people that are doing quite a lot helping children and youngsters to understand the real problems of the world (be the change link).
    You may want to have a look to their website and get some feedback!

    http://www.peacechild.org/

    Whatever happens, all the best!
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