Knowledge+Saturation

|| media type="gabbly" key="http%3A%2F%2Ffeedthepeople.wikispaces.com%2FKnowledge%20Saturation" width="300" height="250" __**Interactive**__ || Retrieved from the world wide web on 14/08/09 from http://www.worldvision.org - **Seven out of ten of the world's hungry are women and girls** Retrieved from the world wide web 15/08/09 http://www.earthskids.com/hunger.aspx __**Quotes**__ You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O'Rourke, //A Parliament of Whores// A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields The poor are poor because the rich are rich. ~Author Unknown || __**Games**__ [|http://www.freerice.com] [|**http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats**]
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 * __**Facts about Poverty****/Quotes about Poverty**__
 * - 2000 children die from malaria each day**
 * Frankie:**This was a really fun and engaging way to sponser poverty children. I donated 3130 grains of rice and that would feed so many people in poverty.
 * Amina:** This is a great website and I ended up donating 1250 grains of rice. This proportion may not seem like a lot to us but people in poverty would desire it.
 * Georgia:** I learnt lots from this site. You answer question and for everyone you get correct you 10 grains of rice is donated to the United Nations. I got 1050 can you beat that! ||
 * __**Websites**__
 * Frankie:** This website shocked me by the facts but one that shook me was that over a billion people are born in the 21st century cant read or sign there own names. If the rates were that high in 2005 imagine how high the would be 4 years later.
 * Amina:** This website told me so much about poverty and it really made me think about what the meaning of poverty was.I learnt that At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
 * Georgia:** I learnt lots from this website. One thing I learnt was that the population of the UK is the equivalent of how many children are orphaned due to AIDS.

[] [] [] Amina:** This website is like a charity it raises money for people in poverty. I learnt that Tens of thousands of children die every day because they haven't been given a real chance to live. They probably haven't had enough food to eat, safe water to drink or medicine to survive.
 * Frankie:** All these facts and stories of these children in poverty is a lot different to our life styles and horrible it made me think about everything I have and they don't the difference was amazing. I found out about this disease called the Guinea Worm it is a horrible disease that is bacteria growing into a worm that comes out cuts and blisters.
 * Amina:** All these stories about different people just showed me how every person in the world deserves to have, shelter, food, and people they love around them.
 * Georgia**: This site is so moving. When I read the story about Assana (top left corner) and the pain she is going though with the guinea worm it almost made me cry! We really need to make sure we can provide clean water to everyone.
 * Frankie:** It was a very informative website and had reasons and research of how many people die of poverty an hour. It could show some information on how they know which child is dieing.
 * Amina:** This website just shows how many people die.I learnt that about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes.
 * Georgia:**
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 * Frankie:**This was really hard but once again it had me jumping out of my seat from how much fun it was to learn about where different countries are and to sponser.
 * Amina:** Instead of giving grains of rice give water and show that you know Where places in the world are.
 * Georgia:** This website is similar to freerice.com apart from you donate water. I learnt about the places of the world.

[] Amina:** This game is heaps of fun and it may just of gave me a feeling of what living in poverty would be like. [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofIjnjlTW] poverty to their own childhood. [] Winkler,P, Rigby 2003, Australia. 200 million of them are hungry children. __**Poems**__ [] Amina:** This poem explains what poverty is in a new way.
 * Frankie:
 * Georgia:** This is lots of fun and you learn heaps! It really explain how little decisions can effect your life when living in poverty. ||
 * __**Videos**__
 * Frankie:** I did not like this add. The music they played was not suitable. The idea 'the games they play' was disturbing but they had a good solution to the problem. It was very sad to see how others have to live.
 * Amina**: When I watched this ad it made me think about poverty in a new way by comparing childhood games.
 * Georgia:** This advert makes the viewer compare the life of a child in
 * Frankie:** This add was a lot more informing and showing us how many people, families and lives get torn apart from whats happening in our world.
 * Amina:** This ad made me think about how many people die and also how quickly children in poverty die.
 * Georgia:**This advert makes the viewer realize how bad poverty is. || **[]**
 * Frankie:** I learnt a lot of facts on this website but some of them weren't based on poverty. I learnt that one of the most countries that has poverty is Africa and Asia.
 * Amina:** This website is great.I found it very informing and it told me a lot of things about poverty such as In the United States, 1 in 4 children lives in poverty. In Canada, 1 in 5 children live in poverty while in Manitoba the number is closer to 1 in 4.
 * Georgia:** This is great for building knowledge about poverty. 25% of the world is in absolute poverty ||
 * __**Other Resources/Poems**__
 * Feeding the World**
 * Frankie:**
 * Amina:** Every day roughly 800 million do not get enough to eat.
 * Georgia:**
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 * Georgia:** This poem is really moving. ||  ||