WHAT IS HUMAN DIGNITY AND HOW CAN WE PROTECT IT? 2 UNDERSTAND
1. What were the Department of Housing figures for homelessness in May 2018? 2. How many families were involved in the report by the Children’s Rights Alliance? 3. What negative impacts of homelessness on children’s behaviour are described? 4. What effects on children’s school life are described?
5. Do you think the survey included enough people to represent how homelessness affects people in Ireland?
B Global water crisis
This poster offers some facts about the lack of clean water in the developing world. Look at it carefully and answer the questions that follow.
UNDERSTAND 1. What percentage of people have access to safe water in developing countries?
2. What alternatives to clean piped water are 14% of rural people in the least developed countries forced to use?
3. What percentage of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to safe water? 4. How does a lack of clean water lead to the deaths of around 3,000 children each day? 5. Name four ways of making water sources safer in developing countries.
