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Don’t You Feel Sad For Them?
Don’t you feel awful about the lives of these poor poor people under risk of HIV, AIDS and death? I’m talking here about Poverty People? Let’s begin with how education can lift them out of this:
IF EDUCATION WAS GIVEN TO POVERTY PEOPLE, HOW WOULD IT HELP?
Education is very helpful. If you study hard, your brain will be more full of life, and information, you’ll be wiser and become solemn. Kids need to go to school, it is just how life is. We need to learn Science for example, to learn the ways of earth and how many things work such as how plants grow etc. We need to gain knowledge about English because it is the most popular language in the world, and will we know how to speak it, write it and understand it when we don’t learn it? English helps us read letters, bills, know how much something on sale costs… if we cannot read English, can you see how much an impact this is on our lives?
Imagine people in Poverty, if they are not acquiring this? How will they know how to read a sign on the road? How will they know how to take care of themselves? Without English being taught,we’d not know a thing if we fly over to America for instance. We’d be helpless… Do you follow what I’m saying?
No English= No being able to read any letters, warnings etc= being under risk, cannot understand what someone is saying, writing or doing= No understanding=HUGE IMPACT. If we weren’t being taught Maths, that would be even worse. How would we be able to calculate how much to pay if we want to sell or buy something? How will we know how much to pay for a product if it is cut 30% off? How will we pay our bills, do anything to do with Maths and most importantly, how will we give knowledge to our children? If we don’t know Maths, our children won’t be able to because we won’t be capable of helping them! Then our generation will be without an education. No Job. No money. Thrown out of their House. Poverty. Do we want this to happen? No.
If education can help these people, then why not learn? Why not gain knowledge and on the way learn really significant facts? If they could have a teacher to support them and maybe donate some money, then they could grow up to be smart, have a job, shoes, clothes, water, food, shelter, and they could maybe even help others including buying their family a house to live in! Do you know how much that will help them? Change their life? If you were under Poverty, how would you feel, knowing you now had a job, money and everything you needed to live? You’d be relieved. So next time, if you see anyone asking for you to donate money to a charity or so, give them a coin! Even 5 cents will help.
Government! Help?+ My Special Opinion ( In Italic)
Why isn’t the government doing anything about this? Aren’t they elected to make their country great, happy and healthy?A whimsical country full of life? Then why aren’t they acting now and keeping their promise to help those in grave danger? How can they just sit there, in a luxurious room filing papers and taking a sip from a cool drink while Poverty is under way? Simply because they probably think they can’t help.
Can’t? They can if they try! We need their help to stop Poverty, to save those people in need… how can we just let them pass away in a blink of an eye? If the government at least donates some money out of the billions it has, to the people under poverty than it could do everyone good even if they lost a bit of money they are still helping!
ekuverikamakee, gadha fadha baareh‘
‘Peace‘
And THAT there will make a difference. If we all join hands together as one, then we could live freely, joyfully and with Justice. if the government lends these people enough money to simply go to school, have a job, live anywhere but the street ex: houses, flats, villas, even little flats for each family or person. It would do so much good as to bring the world together. If we keep peace, wars can be turned down! See how little things can lead to larger aspects? From poverty to ‘No War’! What a chain already!!
They’d be relieved to know after helping these people, that they’d kept their promise and led their country to a happy ending… :) We can do this everyone. If only we worked together, hard-man-ship, optimism, hard work, respect and friendship, not to forget determination, we could in just a few years change everything!We’d walk down the road, and there wouldn’t be a single person in poverty as we pass… ever… wouldn’t that be a miracle?
So far, these people cannot live properly. They cannot go to school, and those who can find it difficult, especially walking hours at the break of dawn and having to wait 3 hours before their lessons. So, raise your voice and save People Under Poverty. They need you, they are waiting for your help and one day when it comes, they will be at your knees to thank you consistently. They’ll pray for you day and night. Make a Difference. Now’s the chance. Poverty is awful as it is, I know it is! And I think it is unfair for humans like us to have to suffer in the streets while we live in homes, safe. It isn’t fair for them, and I’m sure if we were in their place we wouldn’t find it fair either. Make your mark now.
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Change the Conversation. Make a Difference. Together, we can stop Poverty!
Three sentences.’Change the Conversation’. Make a Difference. Together, we can stop Poverty! Do they ring any bells? Poverty. Even to say the word stings. It hurts. Imagine someone, a child, deserted from their parents, set to live on the street, beg for food,mine for water.What can be worse than to be separated from your family and left to live on streets? We can stop this! I have registered my blog in the blogaction day website .You can register your blog by completing the Registration Form - which just asks for a few details. There, we can find a solution and make a difference to stop poverty, because we know we’d never want to live under such poor circumstances, and it would be awful to see others feeding on the worst and living in Poverty, others who share our world. To begin, I start with the meaning of poverty, for those who are not aware of its meaning.Though before you read on, make sure you watch this slide show carefully. It might be useful!
World Aids Day, December 1‘ ‘Help‘
POVERTY= a simple 7 letter word holding so much meaning! Poverty is when someone is set up for a horrible life in the street, no money, no food, no water or shelter. Someone who is thrown out of their house, left being miserable and poor for the rest of their life. If they smell the freshest cake baking across the street, they will envy all who buy them. Even kids experience this tragedy and might even be vulnerable to diseases so powerful it could kill them in seconds… Some of the poorest countries in world are in Africa. This affects children in all sorts of ways. Often, they don’t have enough: Food, Water, Shelter, Money and Education. In Zambia, Africa, for example, 8 out of 10 people are living below poverty average! Another big problem for these poor countries is that they owe massive debts to countries which have lent them money in the past. One out of every 2 people is ill because of poor diet. 7 out of 10 people in Malawi, live in poverty! More than three million kids in Malawi have too little to eat. Doesn’t that break your heart? Another case is:
No money = no school
People in Africa are desperate for an education! If they don’t have the money, then there’s no school for them. Children who do go to school must walk for hours! They have to get there really early, and wait 3 whole hours for their lessons. Isn’t that sad? Isn’t that unfair? How can we sit watching TV with the most scrumptious ice cream cake in our hands while kids and adults are suffering the streets? In Africa war has been going on for 27 years running and some kids have been forced to compete in the war and die when they don’t even know what the war is about… children as young as 7!! Kids can be taken from their families and fight in the war, maybe never come back. In Rwanda, Africa, 300 000 kids have no parents because they were killed in a civil war in 1993! 7 out of every 10 kids in Congo have died before their second birthday and more than 70 000 in Angola have lost arms and legs. Can you imagine yourself like this? Would you like to be treated this way?
AIDS is the biggest killer of these children. It is said by 2010, 27000 people will have died from it. In Ethiopia alone, 250 000 kids under 5 have AIDS. Delifa, and 11 year African orphan has to take care of her 4 siblings in a run down house in Malawi. They eat only 1 meal a day, don’t go to school and struggle even to find clothes to wear. On this website, I found this:’1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day). At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day ‘ Visit This Website and read some of the articles about Poverty! There are many terrible facts…
Around the world, 27–30,000 children die every day. That is equivalent to 1 child dying every 3 seconds, 20 children dying every minute, a 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every week, or 10–11 million children dying every year. The silent killers are poverty, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. If you take a look at this Girl Effect Video, it will teach you alot and you will gather up how much you need to help these people in poverty. Ten days to go! Now or never, our actions count. Have your say by joining the biggest global mobilization against poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals. Go to this site for more information! If you want to join a campaign against Poverty, click here by pressing “Next” at the bottom and follow the instructions! This is what you can do everyone, to stop poverty, join a campaign and stop poverty! But don’t forget you need parent permission first. Do you want to save these people? Act now!
Stay tuned for part 2 of this Poverty Product for more. In my next post I shall mention as Miss W puts it since I have already mentioned what students could do in social action to prevent Poverty ( I hope?):
- How education helps lift people out of poverty
- What schools and student life is like in poorer countries
- My special opinion about the crisis of Poverty and pictures
Blog Action
Pole 2: Flavours Fancy Fiesta….
Your pick? Which do you prefer? But first let us get to the previous pole! The amount of votes they got was:
TV: 0
Computer:7
Thanks heaps to all who kindly voted and shared their opinions of this subject. Now, a trickier one, what flavour do you fancy? Vanilla, Chocolate or Strawberry? Remeber, you can only choose one!!
Reasons to pick Vanilla:
1. It tastes yum and most people like it
2. It is very popular and is fancied by many, usually tastes good as white chocolate or icecream
3. Can be used with any topping to suit your taste!
Reasons to pick Chocolate:
1. Basically, it is the most popular flavour, and is liked by HEAPS pf people!!
2. It is used as many things: Cereals, chocolate bars, icecream etc. It has many different disguises
3. It has a nice taste which melts in your tongue and makes you feel pleasant
Reasons to choose Strawberry:
1. Girls mostly like Strawberry and its nice sweet, sugary taste
2. It can be used as marshmallows, icecream, etc… and is pleasant to eat!
3. It has a sweeter taste than the others, and usually makes you want to eat more and more of it sometimes even for comforting, which will do you good because of the sugar in it!!
Tough choices, but I’m hoping for a good, neat voting process! I wonder what you all think, my vote would probably go to vanilla, just because it tastes DELICIOUS!! Let me hear what you think, and when you have voted, also say in what shape you fancy it ex: Ice cream, a bar… and so on! Can’t wait for your opinions!!
Holiday Hurrumbah!
Time’s flied all this time, and the holidays have come! yay… after all that hard work at school I think we do deserve some time off don’t you think? 2 weeks…. WOOOHOO! HOLIDAYS HERE I COME…….
Well, don’t be worried, I will still be posting, commenting and doing polls, but first let me relax in the shade of the palm trees in Hawaii. And Spain, and Italy. I must go there some day I just MUST. Sorry! Anyway, before we make a fuss, I want you to please rate my blog out of a percentage of 100, I got the idea from Aaron in Tasmania. You can judge me on:
Creativity, Comments, Friendship and Posts, also my interesting links and what I write 9if it is cool, nice and amazing!) and you can think up the rest. I can’t wait to see what you think and don’t worry, I won’t be broken- hearted, I just need the truth and some lovely advice. Cross my fingers… oh and also the new poll is coming soon! STAY TUNED MY GOOD MATES! 
And the answer to what colour my colour poem was from, IT WAS GREEN! Well done to Sam for getting it right and to Stephie who tried!But for now… let us Go With the Flow!
Choosing my Theme ( Fauna) for the Year!
I have taken part in the 2008 Comment Challenge, and so this is something important I have to do, choosing from 5 things to do on a list, I chose to do ” Why I chose my Theme”. So if you are curious, read on! And I hope this post will earn my a good result in the Comment Challenge. Wish me LUCK!!!
Basically, I chose my theme because it caught my eye and I couldn’t help myself. I thought to myself, it would really suit my blog and was the type of design I really liked, as well as it was very popular. But I also chose it first to examine how it looked on my blog, and after a couple of days with the experimenting, I felt satisfied and thought it was the theme for me. I couldn’t possibly change it…
Why did I choose such a Theme out of piles of them which were all as brilliant as mine? Well, sometimes you get that feeling that you must have something out of thousands of others, no matter if they are better. That feeling where you see a precious ash- haired porcelain doll for example, out of many others and feel it must be yours even if it isn’t the prettiest. Everyone has their own opinion, and mine is Fauna…. taking this theme off would be like throwing it away, and I wouldn’t like to do that to it after it has decorated my blog.
So these are the reasons I chose my theme… and not a teeny thing can change my opinion!
A random theme!
Poll 1: Computer or TV?
In my previous post I said I’d be putting up a Poll of the Week, where everyone got to decide from 2 things which they’d prefer most. Every week the Poll will be called something new, a different name. Please choose what you prefer, it doesn’t have to be the answer everyone is choosing. Just enjoy this, and remember in your comment write which you prefer and why. I’d really like to know what you all think:
- Computer or TV?
Reasons to choose Computer:
* You can play Games, research and study for exams as well as talk online to family and friends
* You can use it for homework, and if you miss out on any TV program, you can go on the internet and find out.
* It can be used for fun, and important things such as research. Also, downloading songs etc. There are many important things on the internet that we can use which are very helpful!!
One Of These Buttons Will Get Me Out Of Here
Reasons to Choose TV?
* On TV you can watch programs, movies and music channels with the latest video-clips and songs including TV episodes and programs
* It is fun to watch in spare time, especially your favourite TV shows
* You need it when you are bored, and if there is something you like ex: Soccer, you can watch it on TV. There’s always something interesting on TV! Some people say they can’t live without it…
Well, the choice is yours, consider the reasons, and think hard. When you are done, post a comment with your vote and reason why. In the end, I’ll count how many people voted for TV and Computer, and whichever has the most votes wins the Poll… CHOOSE WELL! And you can always change your mind, though no more than twice!!!
12 Candles Are Lit!
Happy Birthday to me I guess! Just last Wednesday, September 10th, was my all time waited for birthday!! After a busy, tiring day at school, I rested my bag by the couch in my living room of my new Double Story House (Just 2 weeks ago my family and I moved out of our house to a new lovely one!!) and sighed…. at school all I got was a sweet birthday card from Sokeina, and a most talented drawing by Momtahina. It was great!! But from others, I received punches, here and there, to say the truth it wasn’t what I was hoping for. Maybe a bit more spice would have done the day. Still, the punches gave me luck, happiness and a splendid birthday.
A chocolate mud cake was awaiting me on the table, chanting to me, calling to be eaten and devoured like never before. I obeyed, with my stomach rumbling and an eager sensation to eat lingering in my stomach. We all dug in, unfortunately no candles, but there were always those 12 candles painted in my head, flickering in the soft breeze flowing through my head, that itself whispered me a satisfying “Happy Birthday!”.
With a rough but soothing pat on the back, my siblings murmured their “Happy Birthday Nadine” sentences to me, chocolate smeared all over their mouths, as if they were the cookie monster who had just gobbled up a new, delicious chocolate cookie…My mother smiled, I grinned, and flopped onto my bed, a huge beam spread across my face. Squeezing my eyes tightly shut I made my wish all tucked comfortably under warm covers, yet I wait intently as every second ticks by, until the time will come that it will be granted. I lie in wait. 12 candles were lit that day, yet when I fell asleep, they blew out cautiously and carefully one by one, knowing their job was done. 12 Candles are lit by day, unlit by night.
I was satisfied… a brilliant birthday, but now I have grown birthdays aren’t as exciting as I thought they were. I can’t believe it, just saying it makes me feel unusual…
I still pray my wish will come true though…
Votes are In! A Thousand Thanks to All!!!
A thousand thanks to all the wonderful voters who’ve helped me decide finally which choice of the 6 word stories is best, you’ve made my day. Thank you. Secondly, the votes are in, it was quite hard to decide and it seemed many had different opinions but a few still agreed. After a tough time sorting through the comments, this is what you’ve decided:
1. She chanted enthusiastically from her heart: 0
2. Triumph is written all over her: 0
3. The determination glimmers in her eyes: 2
4. Spurring on Till Her Bones Ache: 1
5. She/ He cheers with Endless Pride: 0
6. Victory clings to her/his spirit forever: 3 (Including my vote)
7. Striving, supporting, encouraging, you dances joyfully: 1
8. Courage wipes her off her feet: 0
9. Yet she still stands with Faith: 0
10. She represents her team’s vigorous spirit: 2
It was very tough, with a lot of ties between many sentences, yet with a lot of sentences having no votes… I see you all voted well, and I thank you for your votes and brilliant choices that have helped me come to a decision.
I shall do Number 6, 4 and 3 because I felt they were equally excellent and Meghna, Anand and a few other voters are good with writing, so they’d know which gave a good image in your head. Thank you Anand and Meghna, for the awesome advice and help!!! AND OF COURSE TO THE REST OF MY FRIENDS, THANKS FOR THE VOTES YET AGAIN!!!
P.S I have an idea! I am thinking of making Poll of The Week, every week about anything example: Do you prefer vanilla or chocolate? Etc. Do you think it is a good idea? How do you feel about the winning sentence? Do you like it?
Me + Other Pro Runners= ???
Me Against the Other Pro Runners
That one Thursday after the Athletics Carnival day, the finalists from Belmore South gathered up with shaky hands and legs. We began with the tough races on the chilly morning!! Each school screamed their lungs out for their school mates, hoping they do well and win. If they do, a million screeches of joy echo along the park, so that you’d have to block your ears.
(The Junior 800 metres) 
(Sprinting Time)
As I raced hurriedly along the track, the 800 metre race ( I had come 4th out of the top 5 they want on Day 1 of the Zone Carnival, so this race was to determine the finalists), I swivelled my head around to look at who was behind me. And it turned out many were so close to me that they could reach out their hands and touch me… then came the nerves. Oh no! My heart skipped a beat; my face was wet with worry, weariness and pain. Once comfortable breaths were coming out as struggling gasps. I winced as I sprinted the last 50 metres, my legs yelling at me to pause, just for a second, but I ignored. I had to finish, and I knew I wouldn’t finish it off looking like a sick monkey about the collapse. So I sprinted, reached the finish line with a sigh, but unfortunately as soon as my legs touched that line, I knew I hadn’t made it… and that feeling always haunted me. But I was proud. So was my school, they greeted me with open arms and smiles when I lost the 100 metres, not even caring if I’d lost. And at that moment I knew I would have been nothing without those vigorous cheers from my friends.
And so on other races went, with students so fast their legs were a blur. Most had been trained, so they found it easy… with a Hot Dog scrunched in my mouth, 2 Milky Way chocolates by my side, I scrutinised the proud faces of Fonzalina, the 9 year old (I think) girl in our school who brought nothing but happiness among us and was a fast runner, and Hafiz, the 12 year old unbeatable Senior Boy runner who can run as fast as the most speedy animal in the world and should be called the “Running Machine” as I’d put it, were chosen to represent our school for the Regional’s and we were all very proud and counted on their victory to make us jump up and down. Hafiz had even won a medal for Fastest Senior Boy Runner. He deserved it.
Even though I was most utterly disappointed with my performance, and with what happened with the Senior Girls Relay Team last (Which I was part of as well), my heavy heart was healed by the laughs and warm “Congratulations” from the most important people in the world. More important than any race on Earth. Friends and Family.Which brings us to the sum which is now crystal clear:Me+ Other Fast Runners= Unsuccessful Performance
Click to Enlarge!! Most are of me, and some with my sister… I hope these pictures give you a clearer idea of the Carnival’s appearance!! AND not to forget the cramped 800 metre races!
Help! Help! Help!
Help! My class must do a 6 word story using an image from FlickrCC, looking carefully at the picture we want, and using good words to express what this person/thing is doing or feels etc. But I cannot choose from any of my sentences and neither can my friends. So I would like to hear opinions from some good friends of mine, YOU, since I can’t choose from any!! Please let me know which is best:
1. She enthusiastically chanted from her heart
2. Triumph is written all over her/him
3. The determination glimmers in her eyes
4. Spurring on till her bones ache
5. She/he cheers happily with endless pride
6. Victory clings to her/his spirit forever
7. Striving, supporting, encouraging, she dances joyfully
8. Courage wipes her off her feet
9. Yet she still stands with faith
10. She represents her team’s vigorous spirit
Can’t wait to hear your suggestions! Remember, choose 1 only!! Bye for now…
