In Religion for the past few weeks we have been learning about the Millennium Development goals and had to do aMini Project on our most important one. I did universal primary education because if all children had a basic primary education they are educated on the risks of aids and dirty water.
Yesterday Ms.L took our class to the hall to do a exercise with us. She handed everyone a small piece of paper with a description of a girl on it, each one was different. Mine was a 14 year old girl from India who was a maid for a rich family. Ms.L then asked questions like ' Do you get to go to primary school' 'Do you get an fair pay' Etc. If the question relates to you then you take a big step and if it doesn't you stay still. At the end this huge gap had occurred between us, the people at the end of the hall were first world and the people nearer the start line were third world. I think this activity was a great way to look at the differents between the third world and the first world. I never knew children so young,cespecially girls had to be maids and only got to go to school on Sundays.. If they were lucky. Maybe we should stop moaning about going to school and be happpy that we are getting an oppourtunity to get a amazing education.
Eimear
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