Improving Life Chances ppt

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Learning Objectives

• To know that charitable organisations can
  supplement the services that the state is able to
  provide through the taxation system
• To appreciate that resources can be allocated in
  different ways, and that these economic choices
  affect individuals and communities.
• To interpret tables, list and charts used in
  everyday life.

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Improving Life Chances
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Zambia 29 Rwanda 27 Ethiopia
12 India 54 Russia 301 Britain
1,217 Canada
1,652 Japan 1,202
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WHO PAYS?
A of money is taken from each persons PAY
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The charity SOS runs a Drop in Centre for
street children. The centre offers food,
information about HIV/AIDS, hygiene, health
services, and education. They try to help
children who have lost their families to be
reunited with extended relatives.
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• Patti Boulaye is a Nigerian entertainer who
  founded a charity Support for Africa to support
  families affected by the AIDS epidemic. Her aim
  is to establish clinics across Africa.
• Click here to hear how she went about it.

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Nearly half a million pounds of money donated by
British Airways' customers to the on-board
collection programme, 'Change for Good' funded a
series of UNICEFs polio national immunisation
days in Zambia during the summer 2005.
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Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders)
has set up a cholera clinic in Lusaka. The
charity is also working on ensuring the supply of
safe-drinking water to those in the most affected
areas, as well as on the disinfection of
patients' houses.
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The Zambian government aims to transform Malaria
from Zambia's biggest killer to a controllable
nuisance. Bill Gates of Microsoft has donated
35 million dollars to Zambia for bed nets, to
prevent people being bitten by mosquitoes.
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Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd is a mining
company in Chingola which funds two hospitals in
the town. It is free for employees, other people
have to pay.
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Glossary

• life expectancy how long people might be
  expected to live
• correlation connection, relationship
• expenditure spending, costs
• socially excluded unable to participate
• fully in society
• breadwinner wage earner

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Useful Web Links

• www.UNICEF.org more about UNICEF
• http//www.unicef.org.uk/worldexplorers/ -
  website and learning resource for children
• http//www.unicef.org.uk/tz/teacher_support/index.
  asp - information and resources for teachers and
  schools
• http//www.msf.org/ - Medecins Sans Frontieres
• http//www.soschildren.org/ - SOS Childrens
  Villages
• http//www.hmrc.gov.uk/students/school-leavers3.ht
  m - HM Treasury guide to tax
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx/index.shtml
  - BBC schools guide for teachers and children
  about citizenship, rights and responsibilities
  and how the government works
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx/national/gov
  ernment/lowdown/government_basics_1.shtml - what
  the government does / taxation