Tag: Rwanda
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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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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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Healthy harvest assembly
The positive power of fruit and veg!
An assembly about growing food in Rwanda. Great for Harvest and useful all year round, telling the story of a genocide orphan called Janvier. This assembly highlights the importance of healthy food in a visual and fun way. To get a copy of our Harvest materials and view other ideas, please use the link to the main Send a Cow website.
www.sendacow.org.uk/churches/harvest
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Categories: Assemblies, Children's stories, Green poster, Other useful stuff and PSHE/Citizenship
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Africa/Uganda/Rwanda poverty facts
Quick facts to set the scene
Information and brief statistics about life in Uganda and generally in Africa, along with some basic country comparison facts for UK, Uganda, Rwanda and the USA. Background statistics useful for Geography and for lessons referring to poverty in Africa.
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Categories: Facts & figures, Comparing lives and Geography
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Circle game
Fun, small group game from Rwanda
A group game for break times, also called, ‘drop the hanky’, can be used to highlight similarities and differences in forms of play. Rose from Rwanda plays this game, it involves being quick on your feet and being sneaky.
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Categories: Comparing lives, Lesson ideas and worksheets and PE
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Dodgeball
Lively African ball game
This is a popular game in East Africa, game played in many school playgrounds. It involves at least three players and lots of running and dodging. It can be a good way of getting pupils active at breaktime.
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Categories: Blue poster, Comparing lives and PE
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Marie-Rose’s busy day
A day in the life of Marie-Rose from Rwanda
This worksheet is based around the daily routine of Marie-Rose from Rwanda. In this activity, pupils compare their daily lives with Marie-Rose’s and use fractions and decimals to help them. The sheet can be used to comapre lives and as a start of discussion about living in a diverse world.
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Categories: Blue poster, Comparing lives and Maths
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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
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Blue poster
A photo-poster with stories and information on the back
This poster tells the stories of four groups of people helped by Send a Cow: Matia, Mare-Rose, Sanyu & Justine and Theresa & Kobwemi. It is also packed with information, fun ideas and lesson material to bring the stories to life. There are plenty of resources listed that can support learning by referring to the people on this poster. To receive copies of the poster, please use the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Blue poster
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Pink poster
A photo-poster with background images and a story
This is a resource that provides some general images from East Africa on the front and Berna’s story, before and after, with some fun classroom activities to help your topic come alive on the reverse. There is a series of lessons and resources that support the material found on this poster. If you would like copies of this resource, please use the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Pink poster
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Meet Rose
Visit a Rwandan orphan's house
These lessons can help pupils to understand what everyday life is like for a child in Rwanda and link to the African Rose page on the Cowforce.com website. Rose shows visitors around her house and supporting resources explain more about her life and look at the concepts of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’. A Google Earth file is also provided, locating Rose’s house in Rwanda.
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Categories: Comparing lives and Lesson ideas and worksheets
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Rose’s day
Compare life in the UK with a Rwandan child's day
Linked to Rose’s day on the Cowforce.com website, these lesson ideas help pupils to compare their daily lives with those of Rose from Rwanda. They can fill in activities on a time circle and read more information about her day, prompting further discussion and learning about living in a diverse world.
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Categories: Comparing lives and Lesson ideas and worksheets
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Images, photos, pictures!
Galleries of free photos from Africa
Visit our gallery where you can view and download hundreds of images taken in African countries. The pictures can be used for all sorts of activities, including comparing lives, making leaflets, finding out about animals, making African gardens and lots more. Have a look at the tips pdf to make the most of the images and if you would like access to even more pictures, log in to the main Send a Cow images site.
www.cowfiles.com/gallery
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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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Rose’s Journey - game
A board game to understand more about life in Rwanda
This simple classroom game helps pupils to compare their lives with that of eleven-year-old Rose from Rwanda. Children can look at similarities and differences with their lives and have fun making their own game, deciding how the game works and discussing whether things in Rose’s life are positive or negative. You can introduce her to your class using interactive content on our kids site, Cowforce.com.
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Categories: Comparing lives and Lesson ideas and worksheets
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