Description:This photograph was taken in Tenerriffe, USA. I went with my group from Annie Wood Centre, Aston. It was a really hot day and we all enjoyed the holiday. I really do love to travel.
On this globalisation project with the Worker’s Educational Association, I visited the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and learnt about Equaino Olladus and all about the abolition of the slave trade. I also went to the National Trust, Back to Backs in Birmingham and explored the hardship, poverty and living conditions shared by 11 families. I became more aware of Fair Trade products in the supermarkets and researched café-direct coffee; the whole process from farm producers to supermarket sellers. I believe in African farmers getting a fair deal and do buy Fair Trade tea and coffee.
I have been using the internet to find out what the Development for International Department has been doing and was really taken back at the huge amount of good work that is being done to help reduce world poverty. I read that Millennium Development Goal 2 is trying to make sure that all children get primary level education and to ensure that by 2015 children everywhere will be able to complete at least 5 years of quality primary schooling. This is one major factor that is helping towards reducing poverty and £8.5 billion pounds is what DFID is spending over 10 years, but mainly to Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
I found out that UK is increasing its aid to Ethiopia, and given the size of poverty in Ethiopia, the DFID programme has increased from £60 million in 2004/05 to £130 million in 2007/08. Ethiopia welcomed its third millennium on Wednesday 12th September 2007 with celebrations around the country. With the new millennium celebrations there is a feeling of hope for Ethiopians for a future with a new beginning after centuries of hardship, famine, war and disease.
Photograph courtesy of Esmena Patricks