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Hi there, This magazine is especially for children and about children and we hope you enjoy it!

We have put together stories, interesting information, pictures, games and activities which will help you learn about the lives of children in other countries — and have lots of fun too.

If you and your class are taking part in the Our World Irish Aid Awards this year you will find some useful information and ideas in the following pages to help with your project. But even if you aren’t, you can just enjoy reading it!

The topic for this year’s Awards is:

A Better Future For All The World’s Children More than half of the world’s children are born into poverty and 72 million children do not get a chance to go to school at all.

But it is not all bad news. Rich and poor countries are now working together to fight poverty through the 8 Millennium Development Goals. We explain what these Goals are and how achieving them will make a better future for all children in the world. We look at why going to school is important for children in poor countries and how taking care of the environment can help families in other places who need to grow all their own food. You will also learn about how Ireland is helping children and their families in poor countries through Irish Aid. We hope you will have fun with the stories, articles, pictures and puzzles in this magazine and that you will get great ideas for your projects for this year’s Our World Irish Aid Awards.

Good luck and have fun!

3 .................................. Irish Aid 4 ..... Millennium Development Goals 6 ................ MDGs: Are we winning?

8 ..................... Focus on Education 10 ........................... Activity pages This supplement for schoolchildren was produced by the Irish Examiner in collaboration with Irish Aid, as part of a media partnership for the Our World Irish Aid Awards for primary schools. The Awards are organised by Real Events on behalf of the Development Cooperation Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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12 ...... Meet Viollyn Ajok from Uganda 14 .......... Our World Irish Aid Awards 15 ...... Last year’s winners and finalists 16 .......... Make your own Bwoon mask 18 ................. Focus on Environment

19 .. What’s happening in: Mozambique 20 ...... What’s happening in: Tanzania 21 ......... What’s happening in: Zambia 22 .......... Make your own Bwoon mask 23 Activities: wordsearch, crossword, etc

Photographs: Daniel Rowan and Amy Rose McGovern of Irish Aid. Additional writing by Cathy Roche.

Compiled and edited by Irish Aid in collaboration with the Irish Examiner.

Design: Kieran Bohane, Irish Examiner.

Production: Jayson Carcione, Irish Examiner.

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What is Irish Aid? Ireland

■ Partner countries Irish Aid is the Government’s programme for overseas development. Irish Aid supports long-term development and emergency response work in over 80 of the world’s least-developed countries. We also work closely with the Governments of nine partner countries to achieve progress on a national level in areas such as health, education and agriculture. Irish Aid’s partner countries are: Ethiopia, Lesotho. Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,Timor-Leste and Viatnam.

In our world of 6.8 billion people, one in every three people is living in poverty and one in six people goes hungry every day.

u o y n a C s ’ d n a l e see Ir r e n t r a p ? s e i r t n cou agriculture so that poor people in these countries can improve their lives. This sort of help is known as development aid.

The poorest people in the world live in sub-Saharan Africa and in some parts of Asia.

You or your family probably give money to charities which help people in poor countries, but did you know that the Government also gives aid on behalf of all of the people of Ireland through a programme called Irish Aid? Irish Aid helps many of the poorest countries in the world to fight poverty. These countries are sometimes called developing countries.

Irish Aid works with governments and communities in developing countries to build hospitals and schools and have better

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We can all be proud because our overseas aid programme is rated as one of the best in the world. Ireland is now known as a world leader in the fight against hunger.

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Tamanda Banda in Malawi helps with his family’s soyabean crop. One out of every six children go hungry every day. In Irish Aid we help farming families in poor countries to grow more crops so they can have a better life.

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Through Irish Aid, Ireland has special partnerships with nine countries.

Seven of our partner countries are in Africa and two are in Asia.

This means we work with the governments and communities in these countries to fight poverty and improve the lives of the people there.

■ Take a look at the map. Can you see Ireland’s partner countries?

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What is a Millennium Development Goal?

IN THE YEAR 2000 the world’s leaders came together to look at the most serious problems facing the world.

together to keep these promises, then the world will be a better place for children and their families everywhere.

Fewer people will live in They wanted to find ways to extreme poverty, more boys make the world a better place and girls will go to school and for all of us. The world leaders fewer people will die from agreed to work together to get treatable diseases. rid of world poverty. They decided to try to cut poverty by half by the year 2015. This is a big job so they came up with smaller steps to help achieve this aim.

They promised to try to achieve 8 development goals and that all countries would work together to reach these goals. These development goals are the things the world needs to do to improve our world for people everywhere.

These goals are called the Do you know what a Millennium Development Goals Millennium Goal is? (or MDGs) because they were agreed in the Millennium year 2000. If all countries work

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Many countries got together in New York in September this year. They decided more effort was needed if the goals are to be achieved.

We all have a role to play to help achieve these Goals — that means you too!

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■ Let’s find out more about the 8 Millennium Development Goals ...

By 2015, we have promised to …

Stamp Out poverty and hunger

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger: We have all felt hungry but imagine if you were hungry every day! What if you or your family got sick from lack of proper nourishment? One in six people in the world never has enough to eat. There is enough food to feed everyone but because of poverty, wars, lack of human rights and natural disasters, many people go hungry.

To cut by half the number of people who are hungry is the first Millennium Goal.

Educate every child:

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Achieve universal primary education: Going to school makes life better for children. Education helps you to develop your talents and skills and feel more confident.

Millions of children around the world don't have a chance to go to school.

They have to work or just don't have a school near them. To give every child in the world a chance to go to school is the second Millennium Goal.

Make sure there are equal chances for women and girls:

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Promote gender equality and empower women: Women make up half of our world. They are our mothers, daughters, sisters, grannies and aunties, who care for us, feed us and love us. But in many countries women do not get the same chance as men. Fewer girls than boys go to school or university. Women produce most of the world's food but own only 10% of the world's wealth. To give men and women, girls and boys the same chance in life is the third Millennium Goal.

Reduce the numbers of children and babies who die

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Reduce child mortality: If you are living in extreme poverty, it is hard to keep your children healthy and well fed. Many babies and infants in poor countries die from lack of nourishing food or from diseases. Did you know that one in every nine children in

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developing countries dies before they reach school age? To help babies and children to be healthy and grow strong is the fourth Millennium Goal.

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Improve maternal health: It can be very difficult having a baby, if a mother is sick and poor. Many mothers die during childbirth in the developing countries. We have good hospitals in Ireland where mothers and babies are cared for. Pregnant women in developing countries need extra care and support. This is the fifth Millennium Goal.

Fight infectious diseases

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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases: Diseases such as malaria and HIV and AIDS cause many deaths in developing countries, and it is the poorest people who suffer most. If you are hungry, it is harder to fight off disease, and poverty makes it hard to get medicine or treatment. Many children in developing countries have lost their parents to disease. To fight these diseases is the sixth Millennium Goal.

Clean up the environment

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Ensure environmental sustainability: Problems such as pollution, global warming and deforestation are hurting our planet. These problems affect poor communities the most. Pollution affects drinking water that people need to stay healthy. Global warming causes the weather to change which can harm crops and lead to floods and droughts. To take care of our planet for all people is the seventh Millennium Goal.

Work together to make the world a better place

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Develop a global partnership for development: To achieve all the Millennium Development Goals the whole world needs to work together.

Global partnership means all countries working together to make the world better, by caring for the environment, giving poor countries a fairer price for their products and by fighting poverty. Everyone, from children to parents to world leaders, can play their part to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and create a better future for the world’s children.

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1,000 DAYS Nourishing food is important for everyone.

But it is most important in the first 1,000 days of life: starting when a mother is pregnant and continuing after the baby is born and until their second birthday. This means it's important for a mother to have good food during her pregnancy and for her child to have good food in the first two years so he or she gets a good start in life and a chance to reach their potential.

Without good nutrition in these first 1,000 days it is very hard for a child to grow properly and to be able to play, learn and be happy.

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Theresa Moyo feeding her son Emmanuel specialised food, as part of Concern’s community care nutrition programme in Malawi, which is supported by Irish Aid.

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GOALS It has been ten years since world leaders agreed to work together to make the world better for everyone by 2015.

What has happened in the last ten years and will we achieve all the Goals in the next five years?

Let’s see …

MDG 1: Stamp out poverty and hunger

There are 6.8 billion people in the world. The number of people living in extreme poverty has gone down since the year 2000.

DID YOU KNOW? In Malawi, four in every ten families lacked enough food in 2006 but by 2009 only one in every ten families lacked food.

This was because the Government there with support from Irish Aid helped 1.6 million farmers to buy fertiliser and improved seeds.

BUT… almost half of the world’s people still live in poverty and there are almost one billion people hungry in the world — that’s more people hungry than in the year 2000 when the Millennium Goals were agreed. The number of people hungry in the world is growing, climate change threatens crops and the price of food and fertiliser has gone up a lot. Between now and 2015, we need to double our efforts to fight and reduce hunger and poverty to achieve Millennium Development Goal 1.

MDG 2: Educate every child

In Africa, more children than ever before are now going to school. Uganda is doing best of all.

It will meet the Goal of making sure that all children get to primary school by 2015. There

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are now 7.4 million pupils in primary schools in Uganda compared with 2.5 million in 1997.

DID YOU KNOW? In Tanzania, almost 100% of children now go to primary school and since the year 2000 the number of girls going to secondary school has grown a lot.

BUT… there are still 72 million children in the world who do not go to school. More than half of these are girls.

To reach the Millennium Development Goal 2 of educating every child by 2015, we need to keep helping to provide education but also to tackle hunger. Without good nutrition you can’t get to school and learn.

Are we winning the fight against poverty?

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MDG 3: Promote equal chances for women and girls There has been a big increase in the number of girls going to primary school since 2000.

DID YOU KNOW? In Timor Leste, the Government decided to give equal chances to women and girls and they have more women in government there than we do here in Ireland!

BUT… fewer girls than boys finish secondary school in developing countries. Nearly twice as many women as men over 15 years of age cannot read and write. For Millennium Development Goal 3 to be achieved by 2015, we need to make it easier for girls to stay in school, for women to get paid the same as men for their work, and for girls and women to have the same rights as boys and men.

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MDG 4: Reduce the numbers of children

and babies who die The number of children who die because of poverty each year before their fifth birthday has gone down from 12 million to under 9 million.

That means 10,000 fewer children under five are dying every day.

DID YOU KNOW? In Tanzania and Uganda, the governments have been spending more on health care. This means that thousands more children live to celebrate their fifth birthday.

BUT… we are still a long way from achieving this Millennium Goal by 2015.

Too many children and babies die from illnesses that could be treated or because they don’t have enough good food.

To achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 by 2015, we need to keep working to make sure babies and small children stay healthy and well nourished. Irish Aid is working with other countries to improve the first 1,000 days of a child’s life as these are so important for every child.

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in Europe. One of the main ways to improve health in motherhood is better education for girls. We also need to help improve health services for all mothers so that they can have a healthy pregnancy if we are to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5.

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DID YOU KNOW? In Uganda, where Irish Aid is helping the Government to fight diseases, the numbers of people who live with HIV and AIDS has gone down by two thirds, and more people are getting the medicine and treatments they need. Richer countries contribute to a special worldwide fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis* and malaria. This saves 3,000 lives a year.

BUT… AIDS kills more than 1 million people each year and more than 2 million people in poor countries die every year from malaria and T.B. In Africa a child dies every 45 seconds of malaria.

To achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 all countries must work hard to fight diseases, but also to achieve MDG 1 because illness and disease is often caused by poverty and hunger.

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mothers 23 countries around the world are on track to meet MDG 5 and many other countries such as Egypt and China have made great progress.

DID YOU KNOW? In Mozambique, most women are now receiving the medical care they need after having a baby, compared with five years ago.

BUT… Almost 1,000 women die every day in childbirth mostly in developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa a women is over 100 times more at risk when having a baby than a woman

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Clean up the environment More than 1 billion people in the developing world now have better sanitation. By 2015 more than 90% of the people in the world will have better drinking water.

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DID YOU KNOW? In Ethiopia, more than 60 million trees have been planted and more than 1 million acres have been reforested, and with help from Ireland, many families have benefitted from more irrigation on their land.

BUT… we still need to reduce energy use and waste, protect animals and plants and stop forests from being destroyed. To achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 by 2015, we have to make sure that what we build does not damage the environment, that everyone has safe water to drink and that the poorest people in cities have better houses. We can all contribute to looking after and caring for our planet.

MDG 8: Work together to make the world

a better place Since 2000, countries of the world have been working together to fight poverty by making development aid work better, making trade fairer for poor countries and by working as partners to help achieve the MDGs.

DID YOU KNOW? Global partnerships in the area of health have led to great improvements in the health of children. In Africa the number of people — mainly children — dying from measles reduced by 90% between 2000 and 2007.

BUT… we still have a lot to do before 2015 if we are going to achieve all 8 Millennium Development Goals. We all need to cooperate and work together to change the world for good and to achieve the real global partnershop promised in Millennium Development Goal 8. *Known as T.B. this is a lung disease which can kill people. Many people in Ireland used to die from T.B. Now we get a special injection when we are babies which protects us from it.

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Alex Mwelo, a pupil at Nyangi Primary School, in Northern Zambia.

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EDUCATION WHAT IT MEANS: Make sure that every child in the world can get to primary school.

WHY IT MATTERS: Without education, it is hard to get out of poverty. Education is also very important to help children grow and develop.

WHY EDUCATE EVERY CHILD? Sometimes we might not enjoy school or we complain about homework. If a child can’t go to school because of poverty or hunger, they don't get the chance to reach their potential.

If a child doesn’t learn to read and write, it can be very difficult to get a job when they grow up. Education is a way out of poverty.

Going to school is important for children in poor countries as it will help them and their families to have a better future.

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Millennium Development Goal 2 is: Achieve universal primary education

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An exciting new exhibition on food and farming, and how science is helping to tackle hunger in Africa.

Khulungira is a small rural village in Malawi. Families grow their own food, find their own water and fuel and build their own houses. It is 27 km to the nearest tarred road. No one owns a car or motor vehicle. There are no doctors or clinics in the village, and no electricity. For 3 months of the year there is a “Hunger Season” between harvests. Find out how villagers, with the help of science, are developing their farms and providing for a better future.

WHY DO SOME CHILDREN NOT GET TO SCHOOL? Children in rural areas and in poor communities are less likely to go to school. Here are some reasons: ■ A child might live very far from a school ■ A child might be needed to stay at home to work ■ Parents might need the child to look after younger brothers and sisters while they are working all day ■ Some families can’t afford books or uniforms ■ Floods, drought and other disasters can destroy schools, homes and farms ■ War can make it too dangerous to go to school.

WHAT CAN THE WORLD DO TO HELP EDUCATE EVERY CHILD? The second Millennium Development Goal aims to make sure that all boys and girls everywhere complete primary school. We learned on pages 6 and 7 that progress has been made and more children than ever are now going to school. But 72 million children don’t get an education. All countries need to keep working together to make sure every child gets the chance to go to school.

TRY THIS How long does it take you to get to school? What do you do before and after school? What are your favourite subjects?

Primary schools are invited to a new multimedia exhibition in the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, O’Connell St, Dublin.

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These children from a village in Tanzania walk a long way to school and must collect water because they don’t have any in their school.

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HOW CAN WE DO THIS? ■ Reduce poverty and hunger. Many children don’t go to primary school because they are living in extreme poverty or do not have enough nourishing food.

■ Help poor countries to build more schools and train teachers so that every child will get an education.

■ All countries need to make sure that girls get the same rights as boys. Fewer girls than boys stay in school. Girls often have to do more jobs at home and miss out on school.

Workshops and exhibition tours for 5th and 6th classes

Visits are free of charge but advance booking is essential

Schools visits are of 90 minutes duration and include a workshop and a guided tour of the exhibition. Classes of up to 30 pupils with their teachers can be accommodated at a time.

Email: irishaidcentre@dfa.ie or contact Andree Kearney at 01-8546934

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Can you draw lines to connect the MDGs to the right picture?

Time for some fun ...

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Put the right number beside each of these Goals.

Circle the one you think is the most important.

Why is it so important?

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MDG 2: Universal education

Which of these animals would you find in a game park in Uganda? Draw a circle around the ones you think might be seen there.

MDG 1: End poverty and hunger

MDG 8: Global partnership

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Giraffe

Draw a circle around these things below which are not like the others ...

Potatoes

Bucket and spade

MDG 3: Gender equality MDG 5: Maternal health

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Fill in the gaps ...

Read through the sentences below and fill in the blank spaces. Then identify which MDG is being discussed.

Some good progress has been made in reaching the MDGs associated with major d _ s _ _ s _ _ such as TB, m _ _ _ _ _ a and some childhood diseases.

What MDG is this?

Tractor Papaya (or pawpaw)

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In Africa the number of children enrolled in Primary s _ _ _ _ l grew by 31% between 1998 and 2008.

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The number of c _ _ _ _ _ _ n who die before their 5th birthday as a result of p _ _ _ _ _ y has been reduced from 12 million in 1990 to under 9 million in 2008.

That means 10,000 fewer children under f _ _ e are dying every day.

The number of hungry people, which is now almost What MDG is this? one b _ _ _ _ _ n, has been rising for the last 15 years.

In Malawi, 1.6 million more f _ _ _ _ _ s have been able Do you know to get fertiliser and better seeds. As a result in 2009, many more people had nourishing food than in 2007. what this is?

What MDG is this?

Cashew nuts

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Many people think all the Goals are important and that no Goal can be achieved without the others. For example, having enough food (the first Millennium Goal) and being able to go to school (the second Millennium Goal) are linked. Can you see how other MDGs are linked?

Can you give examples?

Draw lines linking up any Goals that are connected to each other.

What MDG is this?

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Viollyn Ajok from Uganda Viollyn Ajok is a young girl who lives in the North of Uganda. She tells us about her life and what she does every day.

Hi! My name is Viollyn and I am 11 years old. We live in a town called Gulu, in the North of Uganda. We used to live in the capital city, Kampala which was big and noisy but I much prefer living in Gulu. It is quieter here in the countryside. My parents are farmers and grow food for the family, which makes life a little easier. This is my world and I love living here.

My family’s compound is just outside the town. It is a collection of small houses which the adults built and where many of my family live together.

In our house there’s my dad Francis, my mum Lucy, me and my

brothers and sisters — I am the fifth of nine children.

My uncle and his family live close by too, and my grandparents and my sister’s three children have another house beside us.

In Uganda, families like to live together and I like having my family all so close by.

Our home has four rooms and a pretty front garden. I sleep in one room on a mat with my younger brother and sister.

My parents and the baby twins sleep in the second room, where there is a bed net to protect the babies from mosquitoes, which can give you malaria.

Malaria is common in Uganda — I’ve had it a few times. You get terrible headaches and feel very sick which makes you miss school.

But there is medicine that makes

UGANDA

Uganda is one of Ireland’s 9 partner countries.

It is in East Africa. Can you find it on the map on page 3?

DID YOU KNOW? Uganda is sometimes called the Pearl of Africa because of its beautiful scenery. It is a big country with high mountain ranges and a huge lake called Lake Victoria to the south.

DID YOU KNOW? There are many types of flowers, trees and wild animals in Uganda. There are lions and giraffes, elephants and zebra. You can see them at game parks.

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We have learnt a lot about countries working together to make a better future for all children. Now we are going to meet a young girl called Viollyn and her family, who live in northern Uganda.

you well again very quickly, if you can get it.

SCHOOL LIFE

I go to school at Pageya Primary, down the road. I love school and my favourite subject is English. I would like to be an English teacher when I grow up. There are 95 pupils in my class this year. We often have to do jobs before or after lessons. This morning we

FOOD IN UGANDA: One of the most common foods in Uganda is matoke, made from boiling and mashing green cooking bananas.

The most popular meal consists of matoke with a sauce or stew made with beans or meat.

Cassava and sweet potatoes are also common foods. In many places, especially the north of the country, bread is made from millet, a type of grain.

Uganda is a fertile country and many vegetables are grown there as well as fruit like oranges, lemons, mangoes, pawpaw, bananas and pineapples.

had to cut the long grass and clean the school grounds.

My younger sister and brother and I walk to school. We leave the house at 7am but I have to hurry them along because they walk too slowly. At lunchtime we play netball and football and I chat with my friends. My parents pay for our uniforms and books, but there are no school fees. Like most families here, we could not afford to go to school if the Ugandan government did not provide free primary education.

HOME LIFE

This morning I collected water with my brother and sister from the borehole for washing and cooking. My grandmother has taught me to carry ten litres on my head and five litres in my hand at the same time. That’s heavy! Then we swept the

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That’s me (on the right) outside my school with my best friend.

We all have chores to do, one is collecting water from the borehole. My grandmother has taught me to carry ten litres of water — on my head.

COMPOUND: an area of ground which encloses a number of houses, usually belonging to people who are related.

BOREHOLE: a hole or well in the ground where people get water CASSAVA: a root vegetable like a long potato which is popular in Africa POSHO: like a porridge made from maize flour cooked with water PARAFFIN LAMP: used for light where there is no electricity in many poor areas, especially in the countryside.

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This is me outside our house with some of my brothers and sisters.

compound and the house, bathed and got ready for school. For breakfast today we had tea and porridge which was really nice — sometimes we just have tea.

School is finished now so I’m going home for dinner. I will help my mother prepare the food — maybe vegetables and beans, with cassava or posho or potatoes. After eating I’ll go to

fetch more water and firewood, and then wash. By then it will be dark and I will settle down to do my homework with the light of the paraffin lamp.

Irish Aid is helping children to get an education in Karamoja, one of the poorest areas in Uganda.

Find out about some more countries where Irish Aid is working to help achieve MDGs: pages 19, 20, 21

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OU’VE been hearing all about how Ireland through the work of Irish Aid, is helping to fight poverty and hunger, and to improve the lives of children and their families in some of the poorest countries in the world.

Would you like to learn more about Irish Aid’s work in developing countries and have lots of fun along the way?

Well, now’s your chance...

In the next few pages you can read about the Our World Irish Aid Awards and how you can get involved. You can read about other children who’ve taken part in the Awards and the fun they’ve had learning about the Millennium Development Goals and creating their projects.

■ The theme for this year’s awards is:

A Better Future for All the World’s Children.

We are sure you have lots of hopes and dreams for your future, just as children do in developing countries. We’d like you to think about how all the countries of the world can work together to make life better for children everywhere in the future, and then create a project on this theme.

Who can enter?

The Awards are open to pupils from third to sixth class in primary schools (years 5-7 in Northern Ireland) and to pupils aged 7-18 years in special schools.

Project ideas ...

■ Write a short story, letter, a diary, newspaper, magazine or poem.

As a small or big group make up a project book or display ■ Film a dramatised story you have written or make an audio recording of a story or interview ■ Take pictures or use photographs you’ve found on the internet or in magazines to show your work ■ Draw, paint, build posters, wall friezes, collages, models, board games…

■ Ask someone who has worked in a developing country to come to your classroom for an interview ■ Carry out a survey or vox-pop or devise a quiz ■ Sing a song or rap that you’ve composed.

You and your class or group may receive an Our World Irish Aid Awards plaque for your school, or one of the finalists’ awards at an exciting Our World Awards Ceremony in Dublin Castle in February 2011. The most outstanding entry will receive the Our World Irish Aid Awards Trophy for 2010/2011.

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Minister for Overseas Development, Peter Power, with Eithne Sheehan’s 3rd and 4th class from Crehana National School in Co Waterford, the winners of last year’s overall award.

They wowed the judges with the amount and quality of work they put into their project book “Hunger In Our World”.

What do you have to do?

If your teacher hasn’t received his or her pack to explain how to enter yet, they should contact ourworld@realevents.ie or see www.irishgov.ie/ourworld/

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A Divided World, Poster &

Project Book, Teacher; Iris Kirkland, Castleblaney NS, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan

Our World, Our Fault, Our Problem, DVD, Teacher; Mrs. McDaid, Nazareth House PS, Bishop Street, Derry

Project Book, Teacher; Eithne Sheehan, Crehana NS, Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Waterford

Stop Hunger in a World of Plenty, Poster, Teacher;

What we did ...

What we learned ...

Our World Awards

Last year’s finalists ...

Hunger in Our World,

We researched poverty and the Millennium Development Goals. We watched a DVD about poverty and hunger in our world and it showed us how to help people in countries who are less fortunate than us. Then we wrote about poverty and hunger for homework. We got pictures from magazines showing fair trade products and we kept an eye out for any fairtrade products we could see in supermarkets, at home or on the internet. We calculated the travel miles for products we found in our own kitchens.

We talked about what we learned and put a few of our assignments together in a big article for the project. We also played a game, like Monopoly, which showed the principles of fairtrade. We made fairtrade posters which we gave to local shops and businesses where they were displayed. We were also involved in getting the town Fair Trade status!

Here are some project ideas that we’ve seen in the past. You can use one or more of them:

The closing date for projects to be submitted is: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010.

Our World Irish Aid 2009 winners 3rd and 4th class from Crehana National School, County Waterford

If your class and your teacher decide to take part, you’ll explore the Millennium Development Goals and how achieving them would mean a better future for all the world’s children.

With your teacher you’ll choose a topic about achieving one or more of the Goals, and what it would mean to children in one or more developing countries.

You’ll create a project to show us what you’ve learnt; you’ll share what you’ve learnt with other people in your school or community and finally you’ll send your project to us so that we can see what you’ve done.

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■ That some people in other countries are less fortunate than us.

■ The difference between ‘wants’ and ‘needs’ for example: you need food and water but you might want a nintendo D.S. You could live without a DS though, so it’s more of a luxury!

■ That a lot of people still concentrate on what they want and don’t appreciate that they already have what they need, such as food, water, health etc.

■ That Ireland is a lucky country.

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Bríd Finnegan, Knockerra NS, Knockerra, Cooraclare, Co Clare

Hunger: There is a Cure,

■ There are people all over the world who are always hungry and live in poverty.

■ Fairtrade is when profits from products go to the people who make them instead of the people who sell them.

■ Some people don’t have clean water to drink.

■ In countries where it’s very hot it’s hard to farm because there’s not enough water ■ The needs of girls aren’t often met and the needs of boys are put ahead of them, especially when it comes to education.

■ The importance of food for pregnant women so that their babies can be born in full health.

Project Book, Teacher; Daithí Mac Roibeard, Scoil Eoin Pól, Loch an Luir, Anagaire, Co Donegal

Hunger a Fact of Life/ A Fact of Death, Project Book, Teacher; Paula Galvin, Clonburris NS, Clondalkin, Dublin 22

Malawi on the Mend, Project Book, Teacher; Áine O'Shaughnessy, Vicarstown NS, Vicarstown, Co Cork

Our World Newspaper,

TRY THIS

What talents do people in your class have?

What projects might you be able to do for the Our World Irish Aid Awards?

— Have a brainstorm!

What the boys and girls of Crehana NS said about the project >>page 17

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Newspaper, Teacher; Máire Cronin, St.Anthony's BNS, Kilcoole, Co Wicklow

Hunger in Our World, Project Book, Teacher; Vicky Duff, St.Mary's BNS, Congress Avenue, Drogheda, Co Louth

Hunger: Fair World = Fair Trade, DVD, Teachers;

Patricia Casey and Fiona Farry, St.Mary's BNS, St.Mary's Hill, Monaghan Town, Co Monaghan

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Crehana NS pupils

What they said ...

The Bwoom mask

— Eamon (9)

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It was interesting learning about our world. I never knew Ireland was one of the richest countries. I really enjoyed the experience — Rachel (9)

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We were delighted to get into the final 11. I was so nervous when we were up in Dublin Castle waiting for Rob Ross to call out the wining school. I was very happy when it was us — Aisling (9)

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, meets street children during his visit to a children’s centre, run by GOAL in Ethiopia. Irish Aid supports this centre. The Ethiopian Government is working hard to reduce the number of small children who die as a result of hunger and disease (MDG 4) and Ireland is helping them.

Picture: Abate Damte

YOU WILL NEED: ■ Scissors (please ask an adult to help you with cutting) ■ Lightweight cardboard (an old cereal box will do) ■ Glue stick ■ Bright crayons, markers etc. — choose colours to make your mask distinctive ■ A piece of wool or string long enough to tie around your head ■ Any other decorations that you have e.g. feathers, sequins, glitter etc.

Irish Aid Partner Countries ...

INSTRUCTIONS: ■ Colour in your mask to your liking ■ Ask an adult to help you and cut around the outside of the mask, following the dotted lines ■ Using your glue, stick the mask onto the lightweight cardboard.

■ Ask an adult to help you to cut the excess cardboard from around the mask.

■ Ask an adult to help you punch two holes at ear level at either side of the mask.

■ Pull the string/wool through the holes in the mask and tie securely.

■ Use your glue to stick feathers, or any other decorations that you would like, to your mask

Now you have your own originally created Bwoom mask!

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I thought the project was really fun! We learned a lot about the Millennium Goals — Walter (9)

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ERE is a Bwoom mask for you to colour in. The Bwoom mask originated among the Kuba people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over 20 types of masks are used among the Kuba, with meanings and functions that vary from group to group. Hide, animal hair, fur, beads, shells, and feathers are used to ornament the masks.

This masks most prominent features are its bulging forehead and broad nose.

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It was really great

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It was a great chance to do the project. It was really fun up in Dublin Castle. It was the experience of a lifetime — Hazel (9)

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Focus on ...

ENVIRONMENT

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WHAT IT MEANS: Make sure that we all look after the planet and its resources.

WHY IT MATTERS: If we don't care for the planet, the world's poorest people suffer. We all share the planet so we all need to care for our environment. Protecting the environment helps protect the future for all the world's children.

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WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY? Environmental sustainability means looking after the environment and our planet for us all and for people in the future.

HOW ARE PEOPLE AFFECTED? Pollution, global warming and climate change make life very difficult for the world's poorest people. In many poor countries, people do not have access to safe drinking water or basic sanitation (toilets and bathrooms). Millions of people cannot grow enough food because of floods and droughts caused by global warming.

In cities millions of poor people live in slums in very bad conditions.

We all live together on the same planet and share its resources. The different species of animals and plants and natural resources like water and land are things which we all depend on to survive. We are all made poorer if they are damaged or lost. But it is the poorest people who suffer most. We need to work together to achieve this Millennium Goal of protecting the environment.

Imagine what the world will look like if we don’t care for the environment? What will happen to trees, water, animals and plants? What will happen to humans?

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Remember ...

Millennium Development Goal 7 is: Ensure environmental sustainability

ACT! TRY THIS

What can you do to help the environment? Can you think of ways you can help at home? What can you do at school?

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WHAT CAN THE WORLD DO TO CARE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? Caring for the environment better is something all countries can do. Sometimes it can be hard to help make countries develop and to care for the environment at the same time. This is because developing industries or farming can cause pollution and damage the earth. That is why it is so important that all countries work together to find less harmful ways of keeping the planet safe and reducing poverty at the same time.

HOW CAN WE HELP PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT? ■ Be more environmentally aware - what we do here affects people in other places.

■ Reduce the amount of energy we use in our homes, at work, in cars and at school. If we use less energy we can help fight global warming. This will help reduce the numbers of floods and droughts.

■ Support other energy sources. Look at other ways to make energy like the sun (solar), or wind power instead of coal and oil.

■ Recycle as much of our rubbish as possible and reduce the amount of waste we create.

■ Help through development aid. Help poorer countries to have clean water and sanitation and to develop without harming the environment.

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COUNTRY FILE

Capital: Maputo.

Languages: Portuguese, Emakhuwa, Xichangana and many other languages spoken.

Population: 20.2 million (Ireland 4.2m) Life Expectancy: 43 years.

School: Almost 80% of children are enrolled in primary school, but only 3% are enrolled in secondary school.

Doctors: 1 doctors for every 50,000 people. (Ireland: one for every 350 people)

FOOD

In Mozambique people eat seafood, corn porridge made from maize meal and mandioca or cassava, a root vegetable.

Beef and chicken are often eaten with beans, cashew nuts and batata (potatoes) but people eat meat less often than we do. Many spices are used to flavour food.

Matata is a typical dish. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a type of stew made from seafood (such as clams) and peanuts.

Fruit like papaya and pineapples are often eaten with a type of doughnut called malasadas.

Common Food: mandioca and matata.

Mozambique, lies to the south of Tanzania along the coast of the Indian Ocean.

People there speak Portuguese, as well as many other languages, as Mozambique was colonised by Portugal in the past.

Mozambique is one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest countries. More than 90% of the population is classified as poor.

The Government there is working hard to reduce the number of infectious diseases, which prevent people working or taking care of their families. But Mozambique has made great progress in education which will help reduce poverty. Many more children are now attending primary school and more schools are being built.

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Irish Aid is helping the Government there to prevent and treat disease and to make sure children get a good primary education. It is also helping farmers to sell their crops and helping small businesses to get better prices for crops such as cashew nuts.

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Fruit and vegetables grown in Mozambique include cashew nuts (below) and these two. Can you name them?

Mozambique

Children in a playground at a primary school in Machalucuane, Mozambique. Mozambique is a very poor country but with the help of Irish Aid more children are going to school and farmers get help to sell their crops.

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TANZANIA, which lies on the East Coast of Africa beside the Indian Ocean, is famous for its wonderful tropical beaches, amazing gameparks and beautiful lakes and mountain ranges.

Mount Kilimanjaro is in the north of the country, near the border with Kenya. Tanzania is more than ten times the size of Ireland. Its population is growing by more than one million people a year.

It is a poor country, with poverty levels higher in rural areas, where 80% of the people live.

Tanzania has made good progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, particularly in education and environmental sustainability. Gender equality has already been achieved with equal

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Zambia

Common Food: Ugali

A teacher and pupils in the Malambo district of northern Tanzania. The region of Ngorongoro in Tanzania is one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations and is famous for its dense population of big game and for being the home of the Maasai people.

Picture: GettyImages

Tanzania

Capital: Dar es Salaam.

Languages: Swahili, Arabic and English are the main languages but many others are spoken.

Population: 42 million (Ireland: 4.2 million) Life Expectancy: 52 years. (Ireland: 79 years) School: Almost 100% of children are enrolled in primary school but very few get to secondary school . (Ireland: over 90% in secondary school) Doctors: 1 doctor for every 50,000 people. (Ireland: 1 doctor for every 350 people.)

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Irish Aid is working with the Government of Tanzania to make sure farmers can get seeds and fertiliser, as well as getting more land irrigated.

FOOD

numbers of girls and boys in primary school and more girls than ever going to secondary school.

But drought, particularly in the northern and central parts of the country, means there are food shortages for many communities.

Ugali is the most popular food in Tanzania. It is a type of porridge made by boiling cornmeal. Ugali is often eaten with vegetables, meat or stew.

People on the coast eat a lot of fish with boiled rice flavoured with coconut milk.

Roasted corn or cassava is also very popular. Mutton, beef, goat, and chicken are eaten but people eat less meat than we do. Tanzanians like to drink hot sweet tea especially when socialising.

Tanzania is famous for its wildlife parks and its famous mountain.

Tanzania only has two doctors for every 100,000 people.

That’s just like having just two doctors for the whole of County Clare!

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Beatrice Dyson (left) and her friend at Chifwani Primary School, Northern Province, Zambia.

Picture: Danny Rowan Capital: Lusaka, Languages: Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga, English and many other languages spoken.

Population: 13 million Life Expectancy: 45 years School: Almost 90% of children are enrolled in primary school, and 20% are enrolled in secondary school.

Doctors: 1 doctor for every 8,000 people (Ireland 1 for 350 people) Common Food: Nshima

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FOOD

Common foods in Zambian are maize, cassava, sweet potatoes, peanuts and beans. The most common dish is nshima which is like a porridge made from corn meal.

There are many different ways to make nshima but it is usually served with ndiwo, a sauce made with meat, eggs and vegetables. Another popular dish is bambara, which is made with rice, peanut butter and sugar.

ZAMBIA is in East Africa. It is rich in natural resources such as copper. But over 64% of Zambians live on less than 1 US$ a day. Good progress has been made in improving access to education, particularly for the poorest children. More classrooms have been built and many more teachers are now working in the poorest rural areas.

It is likely that Zambia will achieve the Millennium Development Goals in the areas of hunger, education, gender and disease by 2015. Irish Aid is working with the government in Zambia to help it meet the rest of the

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Described by the Kololo people as ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ — ‘the Smoke that Thunders’ Victoria Falls is one of the major tourist attractions in Zambia.

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Irish Aid Partner Countries ...

Name the flags ...

Time for some fun ...

Name the wild animals you may find in Africa:

WORD SEARCH ...

Can you find Ireland’s nine partner countries?

Remember, the words can run up of down, left or right — so search carefully.

Look for: Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Lesotho, Vietnam, Mozambique, Zambia and Timor Leste.

U W I G P O A M L N E V D R Y A H E Q P I L A Z E K T S A I O L D T K G H F J O D E T E T Y S H I M O

P Y P B I T P U Y N S F T Y S J Z

L R I N K H A G U A H D R F E D A

H Q R M A I B M A Z K C E J L T M

D A W P M O Z A I N J X E B R B B

A F S I L P O M M A L A W I O V I

X H D O J I R S V T I N K W M C Q

Colour in the lion ...

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N Z I H F I T H N P B A O G T U E

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Here are some fun questions to see how much you know about Viollyn, the Millennium Development Goals and Irish Aid. Check the spelling before you fill in the words!

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ACROSS 1 The number of MDGs (5) 2 Viollyn’s village is called this (4) 3 MDG 2 is about this (9) 4 Uganda is known as the ______________ of Africa (5) 5 A type of water hole (4) 6 MDG 1 tries to end this (7) DOWN

CAN YOU NAME THEM?

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1 Irish Aid has a special partnership with this number of countries (4) 2 ________ Victoria is south of Uganda (4) 3 Viollyn lives in this country (6) 4 Viollyn’s mother’s name (4) 5 A type of food instead of posho or potatoes (7) 6 The disease Viollyn mentions (7) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2010

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Free Primary Schools Summer Workshops for 5th and 6th classes Bring the world into your classroom!… by bringing your class to take part in the Summer Primary Schools Programme in the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre in O’Connell Street Dublin Workshops are free of charge and include: Activites, games and music to explore the links between our lives and the lives of people in other parts of the world.

Learn how protecting the environment can help to improve the lives of people in poor countries.

Learn how to make musical instruments out of recycled materials.

The Summer Primary Schools Programme is specially designed for pupils aged 10 to 12 years and will be relevant for the Human Environment Strand of the SESE, Geography curriculum. It will be highly participative and is designed to be as enjoyable as possible.

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Workshops will take 1 hour and 30 minutes and will take place at 10.00 and 12.00 daily from Monday to Friday, classes of 30 need to be accompanied by 2 adults, including one teacher.

Advance booking necessary.

To book or for enquiries phone Andree Kearney: 01-8546934 or email: irishaidcentre@dfa.ie Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

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What: workshops on the environment and global poverty For: 5th & 6th classes When: May & June 2011