Survey results

More thoughts and pictures about poverty

Ana: Poverty means that people don't have money for food and school supplies.

Nika: Poverty is horrible. It means that you have no home, food and clothes.

Patrik: Poverty is bad. You can't afford anything special, you only have one thing.

Katarina: Poverty means that people have no home, they don't have enough money to buy food and they beg in the streets.

Matej F.: Poverty means that you don't have money, food and water.
Pictures by: Kristjan D., Maja, Paulina, Kristjan K.

Poverty

I think, there is a lot of poverty nowadays. For me this mean that people don't have food, clothes and home. In the past there were a lot of poor people too. Our ancestors lived in poverty, beacuse life in past was less luxurious than today. However, they fought for bread. Today poverty is more painful beacuse a lot of people have good life. Parents want to make their children's life easier (with clothes, food, tehnical things, …). We help people in distress quite a lot. Organizations like Karitas and Red Cross take care of this. Different events for raising money are organized. TV shows help too. In the past there was more help. We hope, that if one day we need help, others will help us too.

Tilen, 6. a

Poverty

The concept of povety, what does this mean to us? On such occasions we usually think about people, who can't live in dignity.
Poverty also means children, who are homeless and hungry wandering with a desire to survive. However, we aren't talking only of material poverty, many people long for love. How will they feel the solidarity and motherhood, if they had never experienced them? In difficult moments they couldn't trust their mother and father.
Even the homeless we sometimes think, that they are fake. But do we think about them, where are they at nights, when we get back to our warm homes? They sleep in the back streets or on benches in parks. It seems disgusting to us, but this is their only solution. But we never think that this can happen to us too.
In Africa, orphans are left to themselves. Barely gatherings, already protect their sisters and brothers. Happy, if they have only one meal in day. The possibility to go to school, isn't given to anyone. Large families are struggling for days to earn a cup of rice. Although a large deficiency they encourage. Poverty requires a high tax. People in desperation steal just to get to jail, because they get a warm meal there.
Taking all of this, imagine how much food we have, abundance, love now when millions of people are waiting for our goodness. Let us have at least bit of compassion.We mustn`t forget that we can be in their place tomorrow.

Teja, 9. a

Slovene students - introduction

Hi!
I'm Katarina Žnidaršič. I'm eleven years old. I have two cats. I like dancing and music.

I'm Boštjan Kranjc. I'm eleven. I like dogs and cats. I love riding mopeds.

My name's Diana Smrdel. I'm ten years old and I go to class 6.a. I like animals and music. I live in Pivka.

I'm Eva Čopič. I'm eleven. I like dogs and cats.

I'm Jaka Lepčihar. I'm eleven years old. I play guitar. I like riding my motor-bike and I love playing computer games.

I'm Kristjan Dekleva. I'm eleven. Ilike playing football and I like riding my bike.

I'm Kristjan Kaluža. I'm eleven years old. I like mopeds. I play piano and guitar.
I love music. I like rock 'n' roll very much.

My name's Lana. I'm eleven. I like animals.

My name's Matej. I live in Zagorje. I'm eleven. I train basketball and i like computer games. I like music.

I'm Matej Franetič and I like atletics. I like motors. I'm eleven years old.

I'm Nejc Klun. I'n eleven. I like playing piano and listening to music. I love cats.

I'm Nika Kruh. I'm eleven. I like horses and dogs.

I'm Patrik Bergoč. I live in Pivka. My hobies are: playing basketball, rare coins collecting, cycling, walking on the Primož and swimming.

My name's Paulina Milaves. I'm ten. I play baasketball. I very like heavy metal, metal and hardrock music. At home I have cat, dog and parrot.

I'm Petra Brlogar and I'm ten years old. I like skiing and collect €uro coins.

I'm Tilen Polh and I like fruit. I like basketball. My favourite movie is The Wizards from Waverly place the movie. I'm eleven.

I'm Žiga Kapelj. I'm ten. I like playing basketball and skiing. I love motors.

I'm Ana Knafelc. I'm eleven. I like animals, computer games and music.

A SHORT FILM ABOUT POVERTY BY AYKUT DEMIR

Dear friends,

our students made film about poverty with photos collected from google search. This is film by Aykut DEMIR, 7th grade..

POVERTY from Fulda BOL on Vimeo.

Raising money

In january our students were making masks. They were selling the masks in a week before the Carnival. We also organized workshops for younger students and a Carnival dance. The pupils raised quite a lot of money which will be spent for school supplies for students whose parents can't afford them.Here are some photos.