The Paper Bag

Game!

Will you make enough bags to survive?

Some questions about you

How many rooms do you have where you live?

How many taps do you have where you live?

Do you have to share a bedroom with anyone?

2… 3… 4… more?1…

Some (more) questions about you

Do you have a shed in your garden?

Where does your food come from?

Do you grow any of your own food?

Does anyone live in it?

We are going on a journey…

to India

You are living in a village

near the city of

Kolkata

Everything you eat, you have

to grow yourself…

…or buy at the local market

What happens to your crops?

How does that affect you?

What will you do?

One year it doesn’t rain…

You move to Kolkata to look for work.

But you are not alone. People from villages all around are also headed to the city.

So how will you survive?

Stay with friends?

Live on the streets?

Beg?

Get a job?Steal?

Many people survive on the streetsof Kolkataby makingpaperbags.

The bags are sold to shopkeepers.

They put rice and spices in them for their customers.

Ten bags

will earn you

1 rupee

Would you survive by

making paper bags?

You will now be shown how

to make a paper bag.

Easy?

You’ve got20 minutes tomake as manybags as you can.

When you’ve made

10 bags sell them to the

shopkeeper

So......

Get making!

How did you get on?

• How many rupees did you earn in 20 minutes?

• How many would that be in an hour?

• How many would that be if you worked for 10 hours a day?

You need about 26 rupees a day EACH

to survive.

Did you earn enough?

A shirt that costs 30 rupees would mean making 300more bags!

What would happen if you became ill and couldn’t work?

Or you needed to buy new clothes?

If you can’t work you can’t earn money to pay for medicine… food… your home…

Are yourhands dirty?

Where wouldyou washthem?

Did you know…

A bustee is the same size as a garden shed.

Can you imagine your whole family living in a garden shed?

If you were homeless in Kolkata your aim would be to move into a bustee.

How did playing thisgame make you feel?

What can you do to help?

Tell other people about what you’ve learnt (and get them to play the game!)

Make paper bags out of wrapping paper and sell them as gift bags

Learn about the Millennium Development Goals (www.developmentgoals.org)

Raise

money for

Christian Aid

who will

use it to

help people

in poor

countries

around the

world.

www.globalgang.org

Visit our websites:

www.christianaid.org.uk/learn

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