Children's stories
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Rose’s story
Rose is an 11 year old from Rwanda
Rose is a young Rwandan girl who survived the 1994 genocide with her brother Fidele. Her story shows how new life and hope has come into their family since being given a cow and training in natural farming methods. You can meet Rose and find out about her day on Cowforce.com. There are also games that Rose plays included, the circle game and Bounceball. The .kmz file is a short Google Earth Tour showing where Rose lives (click on it if you have Google Earth, then click on the sub-folder and play.)
- Rose_story.pdf
- Rose_story.ppt
- Cowforce_Meet_Rose_lessons.pdf
- Cowforce_Rose_day_lessons.pdf
- Rwanda_Rose_tour.kmz
- Circle_game.pdf
- Bounceball.pdf
- Roses_journey_game.pdf
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Categories: Children's stories
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Janvier’s story
The story of an 18 year old genocide survivor from Rwanda.
Janvier’s story focuses on the importance of the manure from his cow and the bumper harvest of vegetables that comes from his healthy soils. He lives with his brothers and sisters as an orphan headed household.
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Categories: Children's stories and Green poster
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Helping Berna
Explores comparisons, basic needs and different ways to help people.
A collection of three lessons, an assembly and a fun classroom game, all written for the PSHE curriculum and Citizenship QCA Unit 5 - Living in a diverse world. These activities help pupils to understand what life is like for a Ugandan orphan, how it compares to their own lives and looks at different ways of helping people.
- Helping_Berna_intro.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_one.pdf
- Helping_Berna_part_two.pdf
- Helping_Berna_assembly.pdf
- Helping_Berna_Introduction.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_one.ppt
- Helping_Berna_part_two.ppt
- Helping_Berna_assembly.ppt
- Helping_Berna_animals_game.ppt
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Comparing lives, Lessons, Pink poster and PSHE/Citizenship
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Bag Gardens in action - stories
Three case studies of how Bag Gardens help families
These simple stories show how using Bag Gardens can really help families grow more food. They can be easily understood by children and printed out to use as part of an African Gardens display. The ‘Gardens background’ file helps set the scene to our work. Elias and Julia can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD using their Keyhole Garden.
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Categories: Bag gardens, Children's stories and Bag gardens
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Google Earth African tours
Fly through tours bringing Africa into 3D with Google Earth
These lesson ideas and the tour file will help introduce Africa to your class. Try visiting Tazo’s Tour on Cowforce.com and use the Google Earth fly through to teach about landforms, population densities and vegetation cover. Or simply use Tazo’s Tour along with the lesson ideas to bring further learning about the continent. The tours are visually impressive and add an extra dimension to learning about Africa. If you haven’t got Google Earth, download it for free using this link http://www.earth.google.com
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Categories: Children's stories, Lesson ideas and worksheets and Geography
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Theresa and Kobwemi’s story
Grandparents whose cow helps many children
This older couple help to look after their 12 grandchildren. Their case study highlights the importance of looking after children who have lost their parents as a result of disease and conflict. The ‘Milk & Veg’ assembly is linked to this story and the couple appear on the blue poster.
- Theresa_and_Kobwemi_story.pdf
- Theresa_and_Kobwemi_story.ppt
- Milk_and_vegetables_assembly.pdf
- Milk_and_vegetables_assembly.ppt
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Categories: Children's stories
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Betty and George’s story
A short bag garden story
Growing things in bag gardens and composting are the main themes of this story. Betty and George are parents to seven children and their story shows how helpful a simple technique taught by Send a Cow can be.
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Categories: Children's stories
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Sanyu and Justine’s story
Two Ugandan girls who help in the school farm
This is the story of two schoolgirls who drink milk from a cow given to their head teacher by Send a Cow. The school has a whole farmyard of animals now that are looked after by the schoolchildren and help the pupils to stay healthy. Many of the children in the school are orphans, but are now able to get an education to help them out of poverty. Their picture is on the front of the blue poster.
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Categories: Children's stories and Blue poster
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Matia’s story
Matia is 10 and part of an orphan headed household
Matia is one of eight orphans growing up in a household in southern Uganda. His story shows how the milk and manure from their cow has helped them to overcome malnutrition and extreme poverty. This story is linked to the ‘Tough Choice’ lesson and Matia’s picture is on the front of the blue poster. The .kmz file is a short Google Earth Tour showing where Matia lives (click on it if you have Google Earth, then click on the sub-folder and play.)
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Categories: Children's stories and Blue poster
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Marie-Roses’ story
Marie-Rose is a 14 year old Rwandan girl
Marie-Rose has worked hard to get out of poverty through looking after her goats. Her sisters and her get money from breeding them and selling goat kids and vegetables at the market. Her daily routine is included in her story and forms a Maths lesson, you can also play the dodgeball game that she plays in her spare time. Marie-Rose’s picture is on the front of the blue poster.
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Categories: Children's stories and Blue poster
