In the morning we had little workshop. Our facilitators throw pennies on the floor and we had to catch them as much as possible. They did that 3 times, but with different rules. First time there were some fighting, but at the end, we found out about conclusion of the workshop. Workshop had to show us poverty in the world and how money is spread around the world, or around our cast (in that case). After that we were split in 3 groups: high, medium and low income and we had to discus what we can do to equally spread money all over the world. I was low income and we concluded that there is actually nothing that we can do as we are struggling for survive.
What is poverty?
“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.”
“The most commonly used definition of global poverty is the absolute poverty line set by the World Bank. Poverty is set at an income of $2 a day or less, and extreme poverty is set at $1 a day or less.”
Resource: World Bank
After you read those two definitions, I challenge you to think more about what you have and how do you appreciate what you have. If you are able to read this, you are more likely very fortunate for what you have in your life than probably 60% other people in the world.
After that we had introduction to World Bank as this Friday we are going to visit World Bank Headquarters in Washington, so we are preparing for that big day.
After lunch I had cultural presentation on Croatia and I did it great. :)
In the afternoon we had promotion in city and my team went to city center and we did some good promotion there. Walking in downtown, I realized how small it is and it’s perfect for families with small kids. There are no chain restaurants or coffee shops in center which is really good and it remained me a lot of TV show “Gilmore girls” city.
After host family pick up, Sara and I had nice dinner at home and we played a little bit with doll house. Our host mum has several small doll houses and we played with kitchen. Everything is so tiny mini and amazing how detailed they make this things.
I’m really tired as I haven’t slept yesterday night because of today’s cultural presentation so I’m rushing to go to sleep finally.
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