Livestock and Livelihoods - Escaping Poverty in China Case Study Teacher's Notes Student Activities After reading the case study, and looking at the location of Duan county in China, draw a chart, flow chart or diagram that includes the following: a list of all the factors you can think of that cause people to be poor in Duan county the action that the Australian aid program took to try to overcome each of these causes of poverty the setbacks and successes for each of these actions. If you were one of the participants in the training courses, which course would you choose? Why? What would you like to learn in your chosen course? What would you need to learn so you could produce more and sell your produce in the towns? What would you need to know about the loan scheme before you borrowed money? Design a course outline based on your answers to these questions Design an advertisement to encourage people in the towns to buy your produce. Draw a poster to advertise the courses to poor women in the remote villages - remember that some of them cannot read or write. The training courses were attended by 1,351 women. Of these women, 90% shared their knowledge with other women back in their villages. The average number of other women each of these trained was 7.5. How many women were trained altogether? Why do you think some women didn't train others when they went home? How could you try to get 100% training others? Imagine you're a journalist doing a story on the 1998 floods in Duan county. Write the story including an interview with one of the participants in the training program about the affects of the floods on the program. Write a poem or a short story with the title "Water is more precious than oil." Draw an illustration for your poem or story. What is a useful skill that you have that you could teach someone else? (a game, a sport, a job you do at home, care of a pet…) How would you teach another person this skill? Design some materials for teaching it. Imagine you are teaching the skill to someone who cannot speak your language and who cannot read or write. What pictures and practical activities would you use? Now teach this skill to another person -or the whole class. Try teaching at least part of it with just pictures and activities. What resources and skills do you have that you could develop and use to make some money? Work with the rest of your class to raise some money for an aid agency that is working in China.   Top © Commonwealth of Australia