SuMmEr

Summer is here!!

Everyday stay at home and watch TV

sitting in front of my MAC

Ice-creams

candies

chocolate

shopping

friends

hang-outs

group-dates

freedom

and some studying.....

BUT, on the bright side :

I am going back to Germany!!!

;]

God's Children Reflection

The documentary, God's Children, is about the people who live in the dump in the Philippines. The documentary shows different people they interviewed and how that person lives. There was landslide and 1000 died. The government then decides to close the dump and the trash stopped coming in. The people there had nothing to scavenge for, therefore, there was nothing to sell to make money to buy food. One family the documentary showed, was a family with 3 children. One with an illness and the father had tuberculous. The father was unable to feed his family. They had to borrow rice from other people. Sometimes, in the dump, there would be combustions and that area would be filled with toxic fumes from the burnt plastic. In this documentary, it shows that families without money were unable to send their children to school. It also showed us a couple, with an unborn child. The mother was only 19 and the father was 18. In this documentary, it interviewed a 12 year old girl and her family. When they run out of rice, they had to eat the yam that grew themselves. They haven't had meat for a long time. To me, this documentary was pretty graphic. I think that we should help them to improve this world. I think that a way to help and spread about this is to show other people this video so that other people are aware that there are people living in the dump and are suffering. We are lucky compare to the people who live in the dump. We have food, meat, vegetables, and a stable home to live in.

Article on Poverty

Facts about Poverty ~

-more than 80% of humanity lives in poverty.

-25000 children in the world die of poverty.

-28 percent children in developing countries are underweighted

-nearly a billion people who entered the 21st century are unable to read or sign their names.

-people have to scavenge for trash to sell to survive.

-children with illness don't have to money to get it cured

-people have to starve if they could not find food or things to sell

-children were unable to go to school

-Poor people live in mountains of trash

-the water is dirty

-flies are everywhere

-kittens were eaten alive by maggots and their mother could not do anything

-people died in landslides in the dumpsite.