Background info
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Uganda - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Uganda, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Uganda in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Matia, Sanyu, Theresa and Berna. You can find all sorts of images from Uganda in our gallery. And you can make a donation to our work in Africa, including in Uganda by following this link.
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Categories: Background info and Geography
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Lesotho - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Lesotho, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Lesotho in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Mpho, and Karabo. You can also browse a number of images from Lesotho in our image gallery.
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Kenya - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Kenya, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Kenya in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK. You can make a donation to our work, including projects in Kenya, using this link.
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Categories: Background info and Geography
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Rwanda - country information sheets
Facts and background info - great for projects
These sheets give a brief overview of Rwanda, with information on the geography, culture and issues in the country. They are useful if you are studying Rwanda in topic work and offer comparisons with the UK, they also link well to the stories of Rose, Marie-Rose and Janvier. You can find all sort of images from Rwanda in our gallery. And you can make a donation to help a Rwandan orphan group by following this link.
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Categories: Background info and Geography
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Outline maps of Africa
Colour-in Africa maps for display or country location
If you are doing a project on African countries, or are supporting Send a Cow in some way - get children to locate the countries using these maps. Useful for photocopying to A3 to annotate for display and in two versions - with country names and without. You might even find them useful to learn your African countries, or go one step further - download our free Africa map screensaver for your desktop/whiteboard.
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Categories: Background info, Visual aids and Geography
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‘Goats and chickens’ Powerpoint
A simple summing up of help from goats and chickens
A simple Powerpoint giving some background pictures and information about Uganda, which then explains how goats and chickens can benefit an African family. The slides loosely link with Berna’s story and include some background notes. If you would like to donate to Send a Cow using our gifts website, featuring goats and chickens, please use the link below.
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Categories: Background info, Visual aids, Tools for the job and Pink poster
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Animal and other gifts information
Background info about what you can raise money for
These sheets give background information on all the livestock and training ‘gifts’ that we give in Africa, contained in our gift catalogue. So, if you are raising the amount it costs to provide a family a specific animal or type of help, then these may be of use to you in the classroom or as facts for use in an assembly. To visit the gifts website, see the link below. You can also show pupils what we give on that section of our kids site Cowforce.com.
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Categories: Background info, Visual aids and Tools for the job
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Cowforce Africa quiz
Fun online linked activity to introduce Africa
These short quizzes can be filled out while pupils visit our engaging, award winning website www.cowforce.com. This IT activity will give pupils a fun introduction to life in Africa and the diversity of the continent.
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Categories: Background info, Quick quizzes and Geography
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Africa/Uganda background
Snippets of interesting information
A series of interesting background information boxes about everyday life in Africa and, specifically in Uganda. For use in general project work/displays and in comparing an LEDC with an MEDC, also ties in well with Citizenship QCA Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world.
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Categories: Background info, Comparing lives and Geography
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