Back If the World was 20 People...

... how many would be children?
Children use paper cups to represent all the people in the world, and then build structures according to how they think a number of basic services and qualities are distributed.

Type of activity

Group discussion, making structures out of paper cups

Objectives

  • To develop an awareness of how resources and opportunities are divided up in the world
  • To develop an understanding of fairness and equality
  • To stimulate ideas and actions to address poverty, injustice and discrimination in the world

Preparation

  • Draw different faces on 20 paper cups. 
  • Draw them with the cup upside down – as in the image. 

Materials

  • About 100 paper cups, depending on the size of the group. 20 are for you to draw on, and each small group will need 20 other ‘clean’ cups to work with.
  • Permanent markers
  • Statistics at the end of the activity

 

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4-24 children 60 minutes 8-13 years
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