Today we watched a short documentary about a group of university students that went to live in a rural community where 70% of people lived below the poverty line. One of the things we saw was that many children in this community, around our classes age (12-13), are not able to attend school. These children are already working to help support their families.
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November 13, 2017 at 1:38 pm
Watching it made me feel guilty. The differences between how we live and how they live is amazing. Like how we can easily go and drive to the store and buy food they have to travel a bit and even then they don’t have a lot of money to buy supplies. Or how we can know when we get paid and how much.
Something that actually stood out to me a lot was when one of the guys (Chris) got sick. They had to pay a lot of money to get him tested and even then they couldn’t afford medicine for him. They ended up using their emergency medicine but that was them. A lot of the people there probably couldn’t afford medicine and they didn’t have access to emergency medicine.
November 13, 2017 at 1:39 pm
The thing that stould out to me was the food and how they have such a healthier diet compared to us,while we now have package food . We eat chips chocolate and Oreo. We have such a different weather as well which would effect the farming and playing outside.
The thing I thought was really upsetting is that they all are basically farmers and don’t get to achieve there dreams and hopes for the future .it was so sad that one of the ladies couldn’t become a nurse because she had to leave school to farm.
November 13, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Living of 1 dollars
I became pretty shocked with what I saw because I live on lots of money (not sure how much) lots more then them and they actually have to get out the house and work at my age to earn money for their family doing real jobs. It’s like 5 times easier to get colds and flues then us in Australia. It also looks so hard to just get food when we can get all kinds of foods like lollies which they probably have never ate before and when they got their first banana they thought it was like eating the best thing in the world you could eve eat.
It also looks like to build their house they would use everything they could find around them but they didn’t have smelters to melt metal or anything like that. So they would have to find a big chunk of metal or plastic to help them build their house. But we got people to build our house using as much metal as they needed.
November 13, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Living on 1 dollar
I became pretty shocked with what I saw because I live on lots of money (not sure how much) lots more then them. They actually have to get out the house and work at my age to earn money for their family doing real jobs. It’s like 5 times easier to get colds and flues then us in Australia. It also looks so hard to just get food when we can get all kinds of foods like lollies which they probably have never ate before and when they got their first banana they thought it was like eating the best thing in the world you could ever eat.
It also looks like to build their house they would use everything they could find around them but they didn’t have smelters to melt metal or anything like that. So they would have to find a big chunk of metal or plastic to help them build their house. But we got people to build our house using as much metal as they needed.
November 13, 2017 at 1:42 pm
The document has shown that it is terrible living in poverty. Most people couldn’t follow their dreams because they couldn’t afford education. And I feel bad for the people living there and we should do something to help the family’s living like that.
Even if we just make medication more affordable and give them cleaner water so less people get sick.
If we compare. Our lives we are living way better lives and probably longer lives.
And we have a big house and more job opportunities, And with the jobs come better money to give us more food.We also have better weather.
November 13, 2017 at 1:46 pm
When watching living on a dollar a day I thought about what the people will do when the documentary is over will they go back to poverty again and why was the no help like the unicef
Or the Red Cross and will a natural disaster come along and destroy everything again.
I thought Is their government doing anything to help them get out of poverty or give them better facilities or a fresh water supply
November 13, 2017 at 1:46 pm
I thought the documentary was very interesting and was also saddening. It makes me realise how lucky I am and how much I want to help them. It was very interesting the ways that they can recover from floods like going to that company. It was also interesting the different things you have to do between the traditional bank and the other banking type company. It was really sad the way they had to live but the ways they survived was interesting. They have to live in poverty with bad shelters and little income with little food and water. They have to look after big families with near to nothing. The kids have barely any energy but they make the most of it. They also don’t fuss over little things like what food tastes like and what clothes they wear. They just make the most of everything.
People who live normal lives can choose what they want to do and what they wear and make fusses over nothing. They can use normal banking and live healthy lives.
People with normal lives can look after families with no hassle and can live in good locations with good houses. They just throw away food that they don’t like that they could have given to the poor.
November 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm
Living on one dollar
Today our class watched a documentary about living on one dollar. There was four guys that went to a rural community. The main point of the documentary was about people living in poverty. The guys that went over were from New York and Seattle.
When I first saw the place that we’re going too I was shocked. As soon as they got there, they went to find some water. The water came from a pipe. The water came from the pipes which came down from the mountains. The water had all dirt in it and sometimes bugs. I was very shocked and disgusted by the water. I couldn’t believe they had to drink that.
I think they did the challenge very well but I think they cheated in some ways. Like one of the guys got sick and they went to the doctors and found out, that he had bugs in his stomach. It was $200 and they couldn’t afford that so he had to use his own medication. I think we need to do something to help them like, send them clean water, food supplies, clothes and medication.
November 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm
A dollar a day
Today my class watched the documentary called A Dollar A Day. It was about people who lived in poverty and how their life is compared to people who don’t live in poverty. Four men from America went to a rural community in Seattle to show others what it is like living in poverty. They stayed in the rural community for 56 days (8 weeks) only living on a dollar a day and earned that money by growing radishes in a field.
When I saw where everyone lived I was so shocked. The water they drank came from a pipe at the top of the mountain and it was a little dirty. I was actually a little surprised that they drank that dirty water.
One guy got sick and went to the doctors and he was told that he needed to buy this medication but couldn’t afford it. They came with some back up medicine to help fix the problem. If someone literally living in poverty got sick like that they wouldn’t have that backup medicine. So I think that they were cheating a bit.
Overall I enjoyed the film and it taught me that not everyone can live easy and that you have to work hard for what you get.
November 13, 2017 at 2:04 pm
The thing that stood out to me is how much money they have and how much food they are getting. With the amount of food they are getting they can’t do much because they don’t feel like doing anything because they don’t have enough food to do anything. So they aren’t active.
Every day the people only have one dollar a day. When we get as much money a day. So that is a big difference in the amount of money. One day there was a family of eight and they had only 0.12cents in one week. When we would have a lot more money.
November 14, 2017 at 7:17 am
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November 14, 2017 at 3:04 pm
Watching that video made me feel so sad, I could not believe the positions that people were in, it made me feel ungrateful as I moan when I am told to clean my room. The bit that astounded me most is the fact people don’t get enough nutrition in the food they eat, it is so sad how even children don’t have the energy to play or really do anything. Studies have shown that the average woman should eat about 2000 calories a day but those port families in poverty only eat about 50 calories a day, eating less gives you less energy for the day, having less energy makes you do less for your job, doing less for your job makes you earn less money and earning less money makes you have less food. It all adds up and many die from poverty, that’s why people like us need to help.