Bikes for liberia

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• Bikes for liberia
• Support from
• Maidenhill school

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• Liberia was created in 1827 as a home for some of
  the freed American slaves
• Between 1980 and 2004 there was civil war in
  Liberia
• 150,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE FIGHTING
  equal to the population of Cheltenham and
  Tewksbury

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WHY DO PEOPLE FIGHT WARS?

• FOR LAND
• FOR POWER
• FOR MONEY
• FOR MINERALS LIKE OIL, GOLD DIAMONDS
• ABOUT RELIGION
• IN LIBERIA IT WAS MAINLY ABOUT POLITICAL POWER

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• SO WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE WAR?
• MANY THINGS WERE DESTROYED

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• The war is now over
• How are people rebuilding their lives with help
  from the international community?
• Lets look at some carpenters

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• the carpenters WERE helped to build new
  workshops, to have new tools and to train up
  young people as apprentices
• THE NEXT FEW SLIDES SHOW YOU A WORKSHOP BEING
  BUILT WITHIN ONE DAY BY EVERYONE WORKING
  TOGETHER

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SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES
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WHAT HAPPENS TO THE CHILDREN?

• Many are forced to become child soldiers
• They are taken away from their families, given
  drugs and taught not to have any feelings
• they are given guns and made to fight and kill
• Some of them were very young
• Many of them were girls

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Many families ran away when the rebels arrived
and many children became separated from their
parents
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• Some of them never find their parents or families
  and have no-one to care for them.
• One place that does care for them is.

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RAINBOW TOWN ORPHANAGE
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The teachers journey
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• These teachers and carers live in a town 6 miles
  away
• They get up at five to cook breakfast then leave
  home at six to walk to the school it takes two
  hours
• On the road it can be very hot, dusty and sweaty
  for them and they have nothing to drink
• They cannot afford to take a bus even if one
  comes
• In the wet season it rains very hard and the road
  is muddy
• They leave the orphanage at four oclock in the
  afternoon and get home at six.
• Then they have to cook and care for their
  families
• Out of twelve hours, four are spent walking and
  eight are spent teaching
• This wastes a lot of time

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• THOSE OF US WHO TOOK PART IN CHANGING GEAR HAD A
  LOT OF FUN
• IT COST US NOTHING
• WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKYOU BY RAISING MONEY TO
  PROVIDE EACH OF THE NINE TEACHERS WITH A BIKE so
  that they can cycle to and from rainbow town
• HERE ARE THE BIKES THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO BUY
  THEY WILL COST 100 EACH

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• WILL YOU HELP THE TEACHERS AND THE CHILDREN?
• WE HOPE SO
• LOOK AT THEIR SMILING FACES

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RAINBOW TOWN ORPHANAGE

• Please support
• Bikes for rainbow town
• THANK YOU