Comments on: Rich Task – Do all children play?

By: KATE!!!!!!

KATE!!!!!! — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:08:37 +0000

I could not make the clip work so I don’t have anything to say about it.

But I do think that all children should play.At school somone said that what if children don’t know what play is because all they do is work and sleep then i think somthing that they feel comfortable in doing then that is play like there dreams they could have a nice happy dream that they enjoyed then even thiugh it is not the type of play we are used to then it is still somthing to make them happy.

I disagree with what Nina said about that we can not do anything about it. I think we if everyone helps then we can. For a start I think that people should stop all of these wars and be nice to each other because many people in poverty live in places were there is wars not nessacearly big wars but there is fights and what is the point of killing people just to look more powerful or to get what you want. Also Ithink even that is not the way the world works why cant people that need money get money why cant people just get a macheane and print out a whole load of money for those people and then volenters can help get the place they live in cleaned up and nice and clean to live in. I think that we take the way we live for granted (inclding me) and that we think oh school is soooooooooooooooo boring but there is kids in the world that would kill to go to school and would love to learn new things. Imagen being sold by your pearants to work just because the family needs the money it is sad.

I think we can help by donating useful things to chartys such as:
Clothes
Food (that will keep for a while)
Toys
Money
Books to read and write in.
I agree with Isabella all people should have the right to be FREE and NO ONE should be allowed to live in such horrible conditions
I also agree with Alicia because bying things like ciggeretts and drugs is absaloutly pointless.

bye bye
from

Kate
:)

By: felixh

felixh — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:07:28 +0000

Hi
I think the video of the Janjaweeds is terrible because most of the population were killed; most of the childern were thrown into the fire and others were shot. I think that government should not have set the Janjaweeds on the people. Even though the children’s families were killed, they still sang how they loved their country and home. They still played soccer and still had fun. They have to move on to survive – they can’t just walk around grieving – they make the most of their lives.
Other children in poverty should still have some play time each day. The people who own the big companies should not be able to hire children because they pay them less than an adult and the children can be forced to obey. It should not be legal to hire children. It upsets me to see children in poverty. Children are in poverty all over the world – even in Auckland.
Bye
Felix
PS VOTE FOR AUCKLAND CITY MISSION- Fight poverty- we can make a difference.

By: ahmed

ahmed — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:31:42 +0000

hi this is Ahmed.
i think that we should help organizations that stop child labor because there just kids and there as important as us.every one is unique and special in their own way.

By: Mona

Mona — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:07:07 +0000

Hi!
I think this Term we have a very good topic to discuss on our Room 18 Blog: “SHOULD ALL CHILDREN PLAY?”.

Some people think that everyone has shelter, food, clothes, money etc. But that’s not true. A lot of people are living in proverty and their children are forced to work for money which is called “Child labour”. They do not go to school and play like us. Some even don’t know what a play is because they think doing such horrible stuff is normal.

So, to answer the above question, I think strongly that children of any country, town or village should play, have fun and free time. Children should not work because they are small and weak. By working everyday they miss their education which is very important in their lives.

Some children are sold by their poor parents to rich people and they are forced to work as slaves. They wear torn clothes and get leftover food to eat.

If we donate money to charities they can get these children freed from their masters. They can get food, shelter, clothes, education and fun in play. If we do not donate, someone as little as us is going to die every 2 seconds in this world of starvation, infection, accident or torture.

By: Isabella

Isabella — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:24:48 +0000

Hi Everyone

I think that it is the most terrible thing that is happening in places like Darfur and Chad because no one should be allowed to live in such harsh conditions because it isn’t far. Everyone including adults should have the right to play whenever and where- ever they want. Everyone has the right to be FREE! The people in the video called the janjaweeds should have no right to do that to anyone especially people living in such poverty.

Bye, Isabella

By: Francesco

Francesco — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:08:01 +0000

Hi Francesco here
I think that video was really sad when the janjaweeds took over and left the people homeless. I think we should help these people by giving some money to a charete becuase if you do you could be saving a life. Before they no home and shelter and now they have a village of camps so they have protection from the weather If you give money to world vision,oxfam and other ones you could be making some difference.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:10:47 +0000

Hi! Alicia here!
I think the video about Darfur, in Sudan really shows how people live in poverty.

I think that people could help donate to Unicef, World Vision, or Oxfam to help people living in poverty.

I think people can help by donating instead of spending their money on unessessary stuff such as Alcohol and drugs which don’t help them in life.

On the video clip, in Darfur, I noticed that Sudaneese people are helpless without any help from the government, and when I visited a website, I found out that the government was involoved in helping the Janjaweeds, that raided the village in Darfur by recruitung horse owing Arab men, promising them a gun and a monthly salary of $116, in exchange for joining a Janjaweed cohort.

I think it’s not fair how the government try’s to use Arab Janjaweeds to raid the helpless people in Africa.

See you later!!!

By: Amelia

Amelia — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:00:30 +0000

Hi
Its horrible to think that people would do that to those poor families! I think the answer to the question is definitely yes because all children in the world have the right to play and no matter how awful their environment is they will still find a way to play because that’s what children do. I watched the video and saw some children singing how much they loved their country even though there was war and violence there. They still felt it was their home. I also saw children playing soccer and running and they were still having fun. Its sad because they have the same feelings and everything as us and they get treated horribly. I wish people would be more nicer to each other and live in peace.

bye

By: daphney

daphney — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:57 +0000

Hi,
I think that all the children deserves to play even for a few minutes and they also deserve to be free.Adults must work instead of children because adults are stronger than children and children doesn’t deserve to be treated badly.I think that factories are wrong because they shouldn’t hire children to work for them.I think that children shouldn’t miss their childhood.

By: hannah

hannah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:54:25 +0000

I an also thinking about this terms rich task deaply because i feel very sad for people that live in poverty or children that work and i believe that our class can do something to help them.

I think all children should have the chance to play for atleast 15-20mins a day it might just be drawing but that is normaly fun so kids that live in poverty or not a very safe enviroment they might not now what it like to draw or run around with there friends or family.