Introduction
In the developing world, women and children play a vital role in the collection of water for their families. Some people spend hours and hours collecting water from a long distance. This prevents them from being able to work and go to school, making it difficult to find a way out of poverty. This section of the project shows the difference that access to clean water and sanitation makes to the lives of women and children and how providing water and sanitation are vital first steps out of poverty.
Key question 1: How does a lack of clean water and sanitation affect our lives? How does it affect other people’s lives?
Task 1 (group work): Imagine that you live without clean water and access to toilets. How do you think your lives are affected?
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How do you think your education and health are affected?
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In many parts of the developing world, people are forced to live without access to clean water and sanitation due to extreme poverty. They do not have taps or places to collect safe, clean water from and so have to travel long distances to find water, even if it is not clean. There is also a lack of adequate toilet facilities, meaning that people have to go to the toilet out in the open. This leads to many serious consequences.
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Before watching the film ‘Imagine’, get familiar with the vocabulary you will hear. Translate these words into Catalan and Spanish:
1. Clean water:
2. Safe water:
3. Tap:
4. Well:
5. Water sources:
6. Filthy:
7. Drop out:
8. Turn into:
9. Disease:
10. Rife:
After watching the film, tick the predictions you guessed in the previous exercises.
Task 2: (Group work): Each group is going to get Athea, Mariam Hassan and Shanti Devi's personal stories. Read them, find the following information and answer the questions using complete sentences. Copy the sentences again. This task is to be handed in to your teacher. Deadline: Friday 23rd, 2018.
o Who is responsible for the collection of water?
o What is everyday life like?
o How are jobs and work affected?
o What is the impact on education and going to school?
o What are the effects on health?
o What do children do in their free time and where do they go?
o Why do people move away from the villages featured?
Key question 2 : How can WaterAid help change women and children’s lives?
View the ‘We are WaterAid’ film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eudZdeUn5rA
Task 3 (Group work) After watching the video "We are WaterAid", say how WaterAid is working to help bring clean water and sanitation to communities.
Key question 3 : How can clean water and sanitation change the lives of women and children?
Investigation: Why did Sheela have to go to Sri Lanka?
Task 4 (Group work): Each group is going to get a copy of the investigation sheets with a set of cards and a grid to complete. Read through each card and decide which column to place it in the grid sheet.
Once you have sorted their cards under the headings, answer the following questions:
Key question 4: How to influence those in power.
Task 5 (Group work): Using examples from the case studies and what was learnt through the project, you should come up with at least three arguments in favour of water and sanitation for all. Urge your local authorities to support the cause for clean water and sanitation and come up with an imaginative way of getting their attention.