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R is For Rights
R is For Rights
In wealthier countries, we take many things for granted. Lifeis safe and there are many opportunities, which is not the same for many people in other countries. Some rights do not exist in other countries. These include the right to vote at age 18, to serve in an armyat 18 or get married at 16, drink at 18, or drive a car at 17.The Suffragette movement involved women in the 19th and early 20th…
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The benefits of Fibre
The benefits of Fibre
Scientists wanted to find out how much fibre people really need to eat to stay healthy. They found out that fibre has a lot of health benefits. Before, people thought that fibre didn’t do much at all inside the body. They thought that the human body could not digest it and it just passed through. But now we know that fibre makes us feel full and affects the way fat is absorbed by our…
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Is There Enough Water For everyone?
Is There Enough Water For everyone?
Billions of people still don’t get to drink or use enough water that is safe. One of the 17 Promises the world made was to ensure that everyone can get clean, safe water by 2030. Is there enough water for everyone? Less than half of the world’s countries are unlikely to make this promise happen by 2030. Here are five facts about the world’s water provided by the United Nations. There are more…
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The world is full of litter
The world is full of litter. What can we do about it?
Plastic is one of the most highly littered materials. The problem is that it’s a large part of modern life.
Smartphone cases, computer keyboards, shopping bags, and water bottles are all made with it. While plastic has been around for less than a century, it’s dramatically changed the way we live. It is very hardwearing and designed to last for a very long time. But this benefit has become a…
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Are Fewer Planes in the World a Good Thing?
Are Fewer Planes in the World a Good Thing?
What happens when aircraft retire?
One side effect of the pandemic is that there are fewer planes in the world. Airlines are retiring them because there are fewer passengers.
Two-thirds of the world’s airliners stopped working in Aprilbecause of the pandemic, according to aviation data source Cirium. While this is bad for the airline business it is quite good for the environment. If you…
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The Fire Children
by Eric Maddern & Frané Lessac
In the Fire Children, the first man and woman on Earth are lonely after the God Nyame created them. They decide to make children dolls with clay. But every time they create new ones, Nyame interrupts. He wants to know how things are going on Earth. Man and woman end up burning some of the clay children figures in the fire, or barely baking others.
When the…
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10 Healthy Mind Tips
These 10 things you can keep a healthy mind during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The outbreak has changed life for all of us for a while and it can seem like it will never end. But for most of us, these difficult feelings will pass. YOu can use this testing time to get to know yourself better, to build and keep a healthy mind.
1. Stay connected for a healthy mind
Think about…
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What is a Patient Zero?
The expression patient zero comes from epidemiology. In medicine it describes the first person infected in an epidemic or a pandemic.
The expression patient zero comes from epidemiology (the study of the spread of disease.) Epidemiologists are kind of medical detectives. It is important to now where diseases start in order to control them.
The term was first used widely in the 1980s at…
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What is a Pandemic?
A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease, usually a virus.
A pandemic happens when a new virus spreads around the world, and most people do not have immunity, that is, their bodies cannot fight it. Viruses that have caused pandemics have normally come from animal influenza viruses.
It’s just the Flu, isn’t it?
Both seasonal and pandemic influenza can cause infections in all…
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Wash your hands to save your life
Wash your hands to save your life
The word Hygiene comes from the Latin word hygieina which means healthy. Hygiene is all of the things we do to protect our health through cleanliness.
The current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported from Wuhan, China. It has become an emergency for the world and the World Health Organisation(WHO) is working closely with global experts, governments and partners to…
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Little Rebels is back!
Little Rebels is back!
Submissions to The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction are now open.
The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice. Last year’s prize went to Catherine Johnson for Freedom(Scholastic 2019). The prize is administered by booksellers Letterbox Library and Housmans Bookshop on behalf of the Alliance of Radical…
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Afronauts assemble!
Afronaut is a new publishing project from Alanna Max featuring books about and for African children, the Afronauts. Many have set to see themselves in a book, despite the millions of folktales and stories from each culture on the continent.
It’s been a dream of mine to play back all the wonderful ‘nganos’, or stories from my childhood in Zimbabwe. But travelling around the continent it’s…
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What is Child Mortality?
What is Child Mortality?
Child mortality, also known as child death, refers to the death of children under the age of 14 and encompasses neonatal mortality, under-5 mortality, and mortality of children aged 5–14.
Child mortality is a scientific way to talk about death. In real everyday language, though, it is about families and how they manage to survive day after day. n this very modern world there are still 15,000…
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Wahala!
‘Wahala’, the pigeon English word for problem aptly describes Nigeria’s education situation.
13 million children are out of school in Africa’s richest country.
That is as much as the population Tokyo and more than the population of New York. Most of the children come from the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. Boko Haram, the Islamist terror group is a big reason for this problem,…
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What does AIDS mean to children?
What does AIDS mean to children?
A virus called HIV causes a syndrome called Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). What does AIDS mean to children?
The Kiddle encyclopedia explains;
Acquired means that people are not born with the disease. They are infected with the HIV virus.
Immune or Immuno- talks about the immune system. The immune system is the part of the body that fights off disease.
Deficiency means not…
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Eucalyptus!
The Eucalyptus, from the family Myrtaceae, is famous for being one of the tallest trees on the planet.
It grows up to 60 meters, or 200 feet tall and there are over 700 species of eucalyptus. Most come from Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. They are evergreen trees, which means they don’t shed their leaves, which contain a rich oil that can be used as an insecticide, for coughs, sore…
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Junefest 2019 is here! Don't miss it. last printedIt's June! That means its the first Junefest, a children's books festival taking place over the month in…