Tag: Karabo
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Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint
Questions and pictures exploring life in Lesotho

This Powerpoint invites pupils to look at similarities and differences between their lives and that of Karabo from Lesotho. These slides show several pictures from her everyday life, including her home, school and doing jobs and a series of questions are posed to get children thinking. This resource can act as a good starting point for discussion and is linked to other resources about Karabo’s life. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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Life in Lesotho - video clip
A day in the life of Karabo
Find out what nine-year-old Karabo does during her day and see how Send a Cow have helped her family. If you don’t have access to Vimeo.com at school, register for an account on their website at home and then you can download all our videos using the link on the bottom right of each video page. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
A child’s day in Lesotho - keyhole gardens in action from Send a Cow on Vimeo.
You can download these videos for use in schools (if Vimeo is blocked) by creating a Vimeo.com account, going to the video and choosing the ‘download’ option on the right.
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Mountain kingdom of 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 of the mountain kingdom. They are useful if you are studying Lesotho in Geography ‘Mountains and Sustainability’ 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. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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Karabo’s life information boxes (+Welsh)
Background info on Karabo from Lesotho

These information boxes give insights into nine year old Karabo’s life, they can be cut up and handed out to table groups to discuss the questions are posed on each one. The boxes can also be used to promote discussion on their own, or by viewing this video piece (watch the Life in Lesotho video clip) or Karabo’s life in Lesotho Powerpoint. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
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Keyhole Gardens in action (+Welsh)
Shows a garden being used and one being made

One of these colourful Powerpoints is from a school in Lesotho who made a Keyhole Garden to provide food for their school dinners. This can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (preview using YouTube link below). The other shows how Mpho helps his grandma with their garden and benefits from the healthy food. The slides could also be printed and used as display material. For more information for Welsh schools wanting to partner with a Lesothan school, visit the Dolen Cymru website.
