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Page 1: School Children Around the World

Walking…

to school

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CAFOD works with communities all around the world in lots of different ways. One way is to work with families so that they are able to send their children to school.

School is important. At school you can learn things that will help you when you are older. But many children around the world do not have the opportunity to go to school.

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Hi, my name is Joe and Ilive in London.

I walk to school everyday. Part of my journey is

through the park!Do you walk to school?

How long does your journey take?

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If it takes you 10 minutes to walk to school your journey

is the same as Erik in Honduras.

Hi my name is Erik and I am eleven years old. I live in

Honduras in Latin America.

I like school and when I grow up I want to be a mechanic.

When I am not at school I look after my cow and I also take

care of the fish in our fish tank. We have 50 of them and we

grow them to eat.

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If it takes you 30 minutes to walk to school your journey is the

same as Amira and Ekram in Southern Sudan.

Hello! I’m Amira and I’m 10 years old. This is my sister Ekram,

she’s 8. In 2001 our school had to close

because there was fighting. Now it is safe for us to travel to school

again, which makes me very happy!

Before, only boys were allowed to go to school but now nearly one third of the children at my

school are girls.I am learning English at school

and at home I speak Arabic.

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If it takes you more than an hour to walk to school then your

journey is similar to Ganggang in the Philippines.

Hi my name is Ganggang and I am 12 years old.

I have a long walk to school every day. It takes me two and a half hours to get there. I leave at 7am and get

to school after nine. There is a group of us that walk together.

It's very tiring!

I like school though and I'd like to be a teacher when I grow up. Maths is my favourite class.

At home I help by washing the clothes and fetching water from the

well. My favourite game is playing tag with my friend

who lives next door.

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Erik, Amira, Ekram and Ganggang

are all able to go to school.

But some children can’t go to school.

Let’s visit Zambia where CAFOD has been

working together with villagers to make sure their children can still

have lessons even when it isn’t safe for them to

travel to school.

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When the heavy rains cut of the remote village of Kalisowe in Southern Zambia the children had lessons with a difference!

It was too dangerous to walk to school as the rivers were very full and the children could not cross them safely.

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CAFOD has worked with the Chikuni Radio station so the children can have their lessons broadcast over the air

waves to their radio school!

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Remember Erik, Amira, Ekram, Ganggang and the children at the radio school in

Zambia when you are walking to school.

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www.cafod.org.uk/primary

Photos by: Marcella Haddad, Annie Bungeroth,

Simon Rawles and Caroline Irby

August 2007


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