13 Pakistan - how to destroy poverty

Title:	13. How to destroy poverty?
Introduction:	Pakistan is a poor country. All the strongest evidence of poverty lives along with the ability to produce nuclear bombs. We chose a geographical area and learn about the conditions of life here. We look at education, health, the children, the sanitation and water supply, the transport system, job opportunities, women, etc. We identify the development in these areas over the past decades. We learn what is on the agenda right now and what progress this will bring to people. We form our opinion on what should and could be done by whom in order to create development in the area.
The product:	A five year plan for development in the area and a weekend seminar for 10 teachers from the area where we discuss the plan and make new 10 educational task described with methods and the material produced. We open up our home page so teachers we meet in Asia can get educational material from us and from other teachers who join the system.
Time:	The investigation takes five days in total . It is for the whole bus group.
Course of investigation:	Pakistan is among the poorest countries in the world. The population is 130 million inhabitants. Only 36% are literate. According to UN education is the single most powerful weapon against poverty In Pakistan concretely and extra year of schooling for an additional 1.000 girls would ultimately prevent roughly 60 infant deaths. We are going to make an investigation about the living condition of people in 10 village. All of us spread over an area with the 10 villages. We go out two and two. All of us have the same 10 questions. Our goal is to visit 10 families pr. day in two days. That mean that we in total will get a very clear picture of the situation for 100 families. Put up the questions before you go out. Day one and two: Already the first day each group go and invite the teacher from the village to a seminar on Saturday. Take pictures of all the families you visit. Take pictures of the schools, of the water facilities. the electrical cacilities. Day three: On the third day the whole group comes together and make statistics and a picture of the situation in the 10 village. The next step is to put up an agenda for the next five years for how the situation could change. What would it take to do it. Money? Commitment? Leadership? Why doesn't it change? Day four: The role of the teacher in the struggle for development. The teacher from the bus group make a course and we put up 10 ideas for the teachers to carry out. We make a program for the seminar with 10 local teachers. Day five: We make a seminar together with the 10 teachers - have discussions of the role of the teachers and make 10 educational task together with them. We make a building day and restore a classroom or dig latrines at one of the schools. Two of us print out and copy all the new educational task and give the them to each teacher and put them onto the DNS home page. Materials to study: Unicef: The state of the Worlds Children 1999: Education The offical home page of Pakistan about the educational system.