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Raphaella Chidiac, Saada Katrib and Christian Picone ....[:***Peace and Justice***:]]....

and Christian

It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to to believe in it, one must work for it.

Five Words that describe our teamwork: Participation, effort, coorperation, helping eachother, responsibility.

Peace and justice is all about our world being a better one. Many people wish for a world where there is peace and where everybody acts justly to others.

Peace is about being in harmonby with other people. To say nice things, be nice people and all together act kindly and show our love to everyone. It may be a long shot, but we still do hope for some sort of peace, if it's between family, friends or between two nations.

Justice is about treating everybody equally, forgetting about all the racism and forgetting that many of others are different. We should learn to accepts people's culture, religion, appearances and beliefs.

Maybe this will happen one day, but if we keep saying that everything will happen 'one day', that one day is going to be extremely crammed, so why don't we start doing something instead of sitting back and saying 'All the good will come one day.' Why don't we start to take some action and bring some hope to those who have none.

My Blog: By Saada katrib: Friday 12/11/2010 During the lessons i've had so far i've learnt many things including learning how to use wikispaces and knowing how to access all the work and challenges to complete. I also learnt many things about refugees and how misirible their lifes are, aswell as their sufferings with no food,water and all the diseases that they go through. my group has worked really well so far with eachother dividing up all of the challenges and tasks up ready for each of us to complete. So far im enjoying the assignment working in groups and learning lots of things about refugees which teaches me about what people go through in their everyday lives and how lucky we are to have an proper education and a roof over our heads with lots of food, water and doctors to cure our sicknesses. Doing this task has taught me a lot so far and im looking forward to completing the rest of it.

Raphaella Chidiac Friday 12th November 2010 So far, this week, aswell as last week, in class, we have been assigned groups. When we were put in groups we were required to come up with a name, motto and picture that describes us. We also had to come up with five words that describe our teamwork. After that, we learnt how to use Wikispaces and how to edit our pages as each group was assigned a page. We also had to complete challenge one and challenge two so that we could get points for our group. I think that using Wikispaces is a smart idea, as we are able to see eachothers work and keep up to date with each other. It is also fun aswell as educational and I like the idea of using the computer to make our own assesment page.

 Country we are researching about: Africa I investigate...  What are the living conditions like in their home country? Why would they feel a need to leave? What opportunities are their in their home country to make a better life for themselves there? What do they have to do to get to another country safely? Legally? Is the trip to another country safe? How do they feel?

Challenge 1

Image One: By Raphaella Chidiac Imagine this; your live to find food for your family, everyday, you wake up and start to look for food and each day except for your lucky days, you come back with scraps. You might have a fish one day, you might have rice the next day, and one day all you have is probably a few berries and fruit. Your parents pressure you to start your education and you think that leaving and going to a better place, but instead, your school is tiny, dangerous and tatty. You windows are covered with scrap pieces of metal and wood, and inside is dark, stinky and there is no fresh air, no chairs, no desks and no books. You can think about the school I have just described and you should feel fortunate that you get all the supplies you need, you have air-conditions, when you leave your home you come to school to see your friends. It is not the same, however, in the less fortunate, poorer places in the world such as this image that is unbelievably a school in Haiti. Feel fortunate to be so lucky, even if you sometimes don't get what you want, the children in Haiti never do.

Image 2

image 2 by Saada Katrib

This image is showing many hurts and many feelings. The family that it is showing looks very hurt and doesnt know what to do anymore.The place around them which is pakastain is all over the place and is a big mess with no houses, just pieces of rubbish. They seem very poor and hungry with no food and water around, not even a proper pice of clothes to put aruond there bodies this makes me feel sorry for them just looking at the image. If i was living in the conditions that there living in i would feel very devistated and hurt, just sitting there all alone with nothing not even a decent piece of clothes to put around me. Living in these sought of conditions you just would want to run away and never be seen and even commit many things because that would be how much you hate yourself, how much guilt and suffering that you would be going through. we should all do something to help these people living in these conditons and help them live a better life just as they all deserve to. Going through floods is a very horrible thing to happen to you it destroys your houses and everything that is around including nature so what more is there for you to do but leave and never come back never knowing when it will happen to you again.

Image 3 [|Internal refugees from the deadly Pakistan floods at a relief camp on September 6.docx] by Christian

__//** Answer To Questions **//__ The living conditions in Africa are disasteress and are best described as catasrophic food crisis which results in wide spread acute malnutriton and mass mortality.It is estimated that 200 million africans are suffering and are being plagued by hunger reguraly where the outside worlds perceptions are regurally in touch with issues such as war and natural disasters that are one of the main factors.The people in Africa are going through things like starvation where they dont eat a single thing all day. They are also suffering diseases such as HIV/AIDS government failure and it is all because of all the small help of health checks and medications for the sick children. There are no food and water for anyone living there and is affecting the childrens ammune systems and is followed by diseases and death.

Africans would feel a need to leave their country for more oppurtunities in life. To give their children and family a happier life where they could find shelter and food for a healthy meal. They would also want clean, fresh water, that they could be sure was not contaminated and would not lead their children to a premature death. The amount of death caused by malnourishment is very high in Africa and children and adults are dying everyday because of the dirty water, little amount of food and the diseases running through people. Parents would feel the need to move to a safer place for their children to live a healthy, full life.

There are many oppurtunities for them to take to make a better life for themselves. It doesnt just have to be them helping themselves and standing at a thin line to help their families and them selves, but it can be us who help them. We can donate many things such as food, water, medical aids and even doctors who can go their and help all the sick people. We can also help by just being there to support all the people and do everything to make a better life for the people in Africa. With all our help the people over there can then eat and drink and be cured from all there sicknesses and live happier lives.

For the people in Africa who cant live there any more and are devistated have to then think about going to another country and start a new life. For them to do that safely and legally they have to have it approved by the country they are thinking of going to. Once it has been approved and their is a gauranteed space for them to stay in they need to consider on travelling on a boat and travell to the other country. Once they get there they join the country and after a few years after they've arrived they can become citizens of the country and work with everything they need.

The trip to another country can be very dangerous. many things can happen while travelling such as pirate attacks where they can attempt to attack the people on board and possibly kill them, Some thing can happen such as a breakdown on the boat where it wont work and they will be stuck in the middle of no where and lastly hunger and thirst because it is a really long trip and it can take days to arrive to the country it all depends on the distance of where the country is.

The people of Africa feel very devistated living in the poor conditions of the country with no food or water and with all the diseases going around.When the people find out that they have been excepted in another country the then feely very happy and pleased that they can finally live a peaceful and happy life with healthy conditions.

Challenge 3

Question One: Why do refugees feel the need to leave their home country? Refugees leave their home country for many reasons, they face many problems which leaves them with no other options but to leave and go to another country. Some of them have large amount of members in their families and have to make sure that they are safe and living in good conditions. They need to also make sure that they're not facing hunger and dont starve to death or are not killed during a war or tsunami.

Question Two: If the refugees knew that they had a chance of dying when they leave their country, who do they do it? There is a big chance that refugees will die after leaving their home country but will still do it for the sake of themselves and their families. refugees will probably rather quickly die travelling to another counry and knowing that they've tried to save their families rather than just sitting their suffering and dieing or loosing family members day after day falling to tears and not knowing what to do about it.

Question Three: How do they move on after the journey they have been on?

Refugees take qiute a while to move on after all the journey they've been through as they need to find another way of living. For the rest of their lives, they are either safe with all their family together at a new home or split up. The adults then think of sending their children to school and find a job to pay off the school fees and buy clothes and food to make sure their families are safe again. If some of the family members didn't make it on the journey, or died in the country they left, the family members might go through depression and anger or most probably would not want to start a new life without all of their family members together.

Question Four: What conditions do they have to go through to force them to flee from their country?

Before leaving, the hometown of the refugees was in a mess. You could see dead bodies nearly every 100 metres because of the bomb attacks, and all the buildings began to collapse. To be forced to leave would have been very hard indeed as all the homes and things that they loved would have been in such an unsafe state that they could no longe live a happy healthy life there. Many refugees would not flee unless it was absolutely necessary.

Question Five: How did it feel to flee to another country and leave behind all their memories in their home town?

For the refugees, it would have been rather difficult to be forced to leave their child hood memories as well as others. Along with this, they would have also left family and friends behind and this would be a devestation to many. It would be increasingly hard to remember all the things they left behind because they would feel that they were also leaving behind a part of themselves.

Question Six: How do refugees cope when they move to another country? Having to start a new life in an unknown country would be difficult and uncomfortable. The refugees would feel lonely and a need to go back to their true home. It would be upsetting for the refugees to start a new life all over again in a place that they did not know. It would put even more pressure on the adults and parents knowing that their children depended only on them for a safe life where they could start new relationships with other people. As for the children, leaving friends and family behind was a difficult .task but an accomplished mission and starting a new life away from people and places they loved would anger and sadden them.

Sierra leone

Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa and is borded by Guinea in the North and East. So far the assignment is going really well we've caught up on all of the challenges and done all set tasks. Everyone's been working well together and staying on task, I've also been learning many things about refugees and how they live day after day. I'm enjoying and liking how every things going and am looking forward to seeing the finished product and working well to get the narrative finished on time. This assignment is also teaching me many things and brings me to the point where I realise how lucky I am to be living under a roof with people who love me and lots for me to do where as there are other families who are torn apart and all over the place with lots of tears and suffering.
 * My Blog: By Saada Katrib friday !9/11/2010 **

Raphaella Chidiac - 23rd November 2010 So far this week, Saada and I have completed challenge three and four. We split the questions between the two of us and we each answered three questions. For challenge four, we had to plan our Empathy Narrative. We put this into a brainstorm on Microsoft Word and uploaded it as a seperate file ontp our page. The assignment so far is quite easy and ongoing allowing all the groups to work continuosly. I think that all the groups are working effectively togother. My group and I are looking forward to finishing our Empathy Story and reading all the other groups end products.

Saada Katrib blog-26/11/2010 The assignment has gone really well sofar everythings been good and were on our way to finishing everything we've been asked of. Raphaella and I both wrote our own narratives and we are going to combine them to share all of our ideas in one narrative. We are either going to do a story or powerepoint which are going to include music, pictures and video clips. Everyone is working really well sofar and we are all working as a team to get the task completed.

EVALUATION BLOG: BY SAADA KATRIB Our project was a big success and we worked really well as a group other than Christian being away most of the english lessons,Christian being away was a distruptioon to the project because Raph and i had to go on with the work as we couldnt wait for him because we would of fallen behind the rest of the class, other than that we all cooperated and worked really well as a group with no arguments over doing anything. We all split up the work at times and had no problems with who doing what. As Raph and i worked so hard to get the narrative completed we both decided we'd write our own version of the story 'when the war began' this went really well and the next lesson we both shared our ideas and put it into a very good narrative when the war began. It turned out really well and we were then proud to put it into a digital narrative, We all decided to put it into a powere point as a story we would be able to present. After that it was all getting easier as we changed it from a word document to a power point story we put pictures and edited it and it turned out really good over all. After all the research we did about Siera Leone i learnt alot which gave me the idea of how refugees live there every day life which then inspired me to rite the narrative. The research was really good and after all the pictures we saw and all the writing i read i learnt alot. The research we got was really good and we learnt alot out of it, it gave us an idea of how to then go on and write the narrative on refugees. The time managment was alright but i would of expected to finish abit earlier but overall im happy with the time managment and just being able to finish everything on time. The project went really well and hopfully for all of our hard effort into it we'll get a good mark.