Stephanie+Cooper

__My orphan__

Name:Ultarak (loner) Age:4 Ultarak is deformed because of the nuclear testing in Kazakhstan. His parents left him at childbirth

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REFLECTIONS__

__ Cowfiles __ At [|www.cowfiles.com] I learnt how children in poverty make their own fun from very few materials. I learnt how to make an African football, a sack garden and how a family in poverty lives on a daily basis. I think this site taught me how when money is tight you must make the most of your resources.

__Cowforce__

I learnt about what people in poverty do in place of our items such as TV=playing a game in the dirt or Fridge=picking something out of a garden. This has really showed that what we take for granted is actually very valuable and rare. I was amazed when I read about Rose's house in Rwanda and she said: "I am lucky enough to have some flip-flops, most of my friends do not have any." I found this really sad that something almost everyone owns in NZ is so rare in Rwanda and other countries in poverty.

__Teenink__

Teenink was a fabulous website. I couldn't find any stories about orphans in Kazakhstan, but I found an AWESOME article about HIV/AIDS. It included solutions for AIDS and tons of information. I am pretty sure that it will really help me with my solutions and orphans research.

[|www.standupforkids.org]

__Street Children of the Phillipines__

This video really made me think. The one line that really got to me was: "Kid, do you know that I'm a kid just like you?" I had never really thought about how these kids are just the same as me, same age, but children my age in Africa, Kazakhstan and many other places are working, leading families and supplying food for their families, and it really made me wonder if I could do that if I was an orphan.

__Keyhole Gardens in Lesotho__

This video was great because it opened my mind to many solutions to malnourishment. If we were able to send volunteers around places in poverty to teach families how to make keyhole gardens, it would help them have good food to eat.

UNICEF.org

I found a great article about UNICEF in Kazakhstan ( [] ). I learnt that they have nominated a well-known artist as a National Goodwill Ambassador. He will go around the country and the world to help children and teenagers in poverty and who are orphans. National Goodwill Ambassadors do things like hand out school supplies, volunteer to build buildings and educate families on how to care for themselves. Since there are many orphans on the street in Kazakhstan, I think this will help them a lot.

General Information [] This is a great website because it talks about how to adopt an orphan in a different country. There is China, Rwanda, Russia, Ukraine and Brazil. It has really helped me with some of my research. Referencing Tutorial

[] I found this on Teenink. It is about AIDS and I think it will really help with research if you are going to write about orphans whose parents die from AIDS.

[] This is such a sad article. It is all about the deformed orphans of Kazakhstan, due to nuclear testing.

__QUOTES__

"Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims. … We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future." - Nana Mouskouri