Over the last weeks we have been writing articles about different NGOs. Ainhoa and I wrote about BRAC (one of the worlds biggest non-governamental organisations) but I have never given any money to them because I just discovered them for the article.
Since I was a kid, I have loved animals so I asked my parents if we could join WFF (World Wildlife Fund) that fight the extinction of animals and pollution of our planet. Every month I receive a magazine with all the information about their new projects and it's very interesting! If you like animals and want to help them it's a great idea to join it!
The species they mainly focuse on are: tigers,elephants,rhinos,gorillas,giant pandas and marine turtles.
Ainhoa and I worked on a project about immigration and to understand more about the situation, we watched a film. It's a french film called Welcome that was criticised when it first came out but I thought it was very interesting as it shows two different points of view about the issue. If you decide to watch it, there is a complete analysis in our webpage for further information about the film.
For the analysis click here .
The last two weeks, we've been working on an article about NGOs. Ainhoa and I we've chosen a NGO which we think works different to others we know: BRAC; it's the largest non-governamental organization in the world.
<<What makes the difference between other organizations , then?>> you would ask; well, let us tell you that what makes BRAC unique and famous is the method chosen to face poverty. BRAC’s idea has always been simple yet radical: they've tried to bring together the poorest people in the poorest countries and teach them to read, think for themselves, pool their
resources, and start their own businesses.
If you want to know some more about BRAC, read the article by clicking here
Your shirt was made in Mexico and your shoes in China. Your CD player
comes from Japan. You can travel to Moscow and eat a Big Mac there and
you can watch an American film in Rome. Today goodsare made and sold all over the world, thanks to globalization.
This short second term, we've also been talking about globalization as
it can be seen in the blog: we've been debating on it and we've found
its good and not that good sides.
Good sides
Globalization gives you a larger market. You can sell more goodsand make more money. You can createmore jobs.
Products become cheaper and you can get new goodsmore quickly.
Bad sides
Globalization causes unemployment in industrialized countries
because firms move their factories to places where they can get
cheaper workers.
Globalization may lead to more environmental problems.
Globalization can lead to financial problems .
Some of the poorest countries in the world, especially in Africa, may get even poorer.
Human, animal and plant diseases can spread more quickly through globalization.
In conclusion, it can be appreciated that globalization's drawbacks are
more than the benefits. However, we should try to fix the problems for a
better life!
P.S:.: Don't you know what globalization is? Here's the big problem explained in 4 minutes!
This term, we've talked about the population of the world in class. So our teacher asked us to do a graph so that we could have a look at the growth and predict about how much it is going to grow in the future. As we can see, it's growing very quickly and that means that in a future, we might be so many that there aren't going to be enough sources for all of us. What is the solution?
Time on the horizontal acces and number of people in billions on the vertical access.
If we look at our clothes, food, gadgets... we'll be able to see that there are not made in the same place that the company comes from. Here are some examples:
This second term we have started to work about globalisation. Coca Cola is one of the first things that comes up to me with this word. It's an american company who created this drink. Nowadays, everybody over the world knows about it.
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