Is work, child's play? Poverty in the Philippines Case Study Teacher's Notes Student Activities 'An hour in the life of a child working on the streets in the Philippines.' Write a short descriptive passage describing what your life might have been like working as a child in a Filipino city. Share these stories briefly with the class. Complete the table below, to compare the living conditions and resources of street and urban working children in the Philippines with your own situation.   Street children in the Philippines You in Australia Shelter and warmth     Food     Clothing     Water     Health services     Access to money     Education     Discuss how this may impact on the opportunities in adulthood for yourself and a seventeen year old street worker in the Philippines. Imagine you and your colleagues are working as health workers on the Street and Urban Working Children Project in the Philippines. If you were asked to design a poster to promote the project, outline the type of information you would include to explain the health and/ or development benefits for children of one of the projects strategies. In groups of 3-4, present an outline to the class commenting on the following aspects of your poster design. Identify the strategy selected from the aid program discussing tactics used to attract the target group to your poster. The health benefit/s for the target group. The development benefit/s for the target group. Social considerations when designing the poster. Write a newspaper article for the Australian Government's overseas aid program advertising the Street and Urban Working Children Project and encouraging people in industrialised countries to support this aid project. Give the newspaper article a catchy title. Illustrate how the strategies of the project have improved the health and development of children in the Philippines. Read the final chapter of the two working Filipino children identified in the case study. In small groups discuss how effective the project was in improving the following aspects for these children during childhood. Then discuss how they may impact on their adolescence and adulthood in later life. Use the table below to record your answers. Give examples to illustrate your answers where needed. Share your answers with the class.   Childhood now Adolescence later Adulthood later Nutritional Status       Education       Health status       Physical development       Emotional development       Social development       Discuss how strategies implemented by the project aimed to improve the following aspect for the parents of the street and urban working children. Nutritional status Education Health status Physical development Emotional development Social development What are the long term benefits to the Philippines community of the Street and Urban Working Children project? Sustainable development can be defined as meeting the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Three aspects of sustainable development identified by the World Bank are social, economic and environmental. Select one of these and use examples from the project to illustrate that aspect. Present as a concept map to the rest of the class. What are the benefits for government organisations in supporting the Street and Urban Working Children Project? What are the benefits for non government organisations (NGOs) in supporting the Street and Urban Working Children Project?   Top © Commonwealth of Australia