Does Poverty ExistIn Latin America?In North America?In Africa ?In Asia ?And in……(fill in the blank, please)

Presented by: Charlene, Amber, Meagan and LingLing

Children and Poverty In Latin America

Where is Latin America?

Story Time!! Javier“When he was 5, Javier started carrying meals to his

father who worked as a miner high in the moon-like Andes mountains. He would often linger, scrabbling through the waste rock outside the mine entrance to see if he could find some ore-bearing chunk that the miners had overlooked.

Within a few years, he was working in the mine, hauling buckets of water and pushing wheelbarrow loads of ore. He didn’t start first grade until he was 9, and even then, he went to the mine after school, often staying long into the night.”

Today, children are banned from working in the mine. There is a high school that has been built above Javier’s community. This is great but there are still children working in other mines in different parts of Latin America that we can’t forget!

What does home mean to you?What Does your home look like?

Brazil

Latin America

Costa Rica

Do you notice the different houses families live in?

What kind of differences do you see?

Food!!!!! What looks Tasty to you??

Columbian Food

Food Market at Quibdo, Columbia

Children looking for food and treasures in a Nicaragua Dump

Street Children

Children Often need to help out their families. They sell trinkets, shine shoes, steal and do other things to make money. Some of these children don’t have family ties to take care of them, these kids live in the street.

Why does this happen here?

“Unity-in-diversity”!.

Everybody is different. The more we know the more we can help others!!!

Poverty in North America and Africa

What are the differences between these schools?

Where would want to live?Where does the man live? Poverty is found in every neighborhood

Which pair of shoes would you wear?

Do you think all children get enough nutritious food?

What are these children doing?

Children photographed during the Kenya drought

Children playing on a beach in North America

Playing Around!Which picture is a

summer camp for kids?

Which picture is a camp for homeless children?

What is going on in these pictures?Animal used for

milk to feed the family

Family outing to the petting zoo

Food for thought....Money does not

grown on treesPoverty is

everywhere!!

Poverty in Asia Comparing these pictures, and answer the following

questions.

1.What are they doing?

2. Are they happy?

3. Would you be happy if you were one of the people in the first picture?

4. How would you feel if you were in the second one?

Are You READY???

1. Water Festival VS. Flooding

This is the Water-Splashing Festival in Jinghong, in China.

1. Water Festival VS. Flooding

Cyclone Hits Bangladesh, on November 16, 2007

2. Camping VS. Refugee Camps

2. Camping VS. Refugee Camps

Malnourished children in Afghanistan Iraq Refugee Children

What Can You Do?Do Not Discriminate Them

Will you feel happy if people look down on youbecause you are poor?

What Can You Do?Do Not Waste—Water, Food, and Money

Can you survive without clean water and

safe food ?

What Can You Do?Saving and DonationIf you save everyday*365days=Purchasing a Christmas

present from a businesses that contributes to projects reducing poverty.

If you save everyday*365days=Can$36.5. You can buy 3 or 4 bed nets that will help some African children who have Malaria.

If you save everyday*365days=Can$365.

You may want to support a project, for example, Emergency Relief funded by the SOS Children’s Villages

Now, it is your turn to think what we can do with ourmoney if we collect them together, and work as a team.

What Can You Do?Teach Your Parents, Friends, and Neighbours

What You Have Learned Today

Will you be happy if you know people care about you?

What Can You Do?To help other ChildrenTo reduce povertyTo make everyday a Good DayLet’s start from Today !

Thank YouRemember:

It is not always about money; it is about Life, Love, and Care.