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If I ruled the world
Prayer
Happy children need
a good childhood.
What would children do if they ruled the
God of love,
Passionate
world? We asked 18-year-old Tseden Taddese,
and strong,
Tender and careful:
one of the children involved in our Refugees
Watch over us
and hold us
Aloud project.
All the days
of our life:
Through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
they can’t afford to buy food, go to there aren’t extreme differences
Amen.
the doctor when they are very ill or between different countries’ wealth.
even buy medicine. So their lives are All the countries will share the
at risk and they may die eventually. wealth of the world.
Poverty shortens the life of many
Prayer from
Common Worship:
people in Ethiopia. In the UK, when The world would be a better
The Archbishops’
people don’t have work or income place to live in if poverty became Council. Available in
and they become desperate for history because a lot of our
our Prayer Calendar.
money, they get forced into bad problems would be solved.
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situations. They maybe begin to I think it would be very hard for
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commit crimes like smuggling, or a ruler of the world to do this on
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selling the only thing they have – their own; it’s every individual’s
their body – as prostitutes. Poverty responsibility to do their best to
makes us do things we don’t make poverty history.
want to do. Poverty affects us
If I ruled the world, I would give all
psychologically, becoming Tseden is a member of Refugees
my best to make poverty history
depressed because life becomes Aloud – The Children’s Society’s
because poverty is one of the main
extremely hard and not worth living. Young Refugees’ Media Project
problems we are suffering from in
which aims to encourage young
our world. In Ethiopia, the country
To make poverty history, I will refugees to develop a more
where I was born, and also in the
provide the poor countries prominent voice in the Media, and
UK, my present home, I have
with more job opportunities so that includes activities designed to
witnessed the impact poverty has
people can take care of themselves. promote effective communication
on people’s lives. In Ethiopia poverty
I will stop companies that take and expression skills. Refugees
affects people by jeopardising their
advantage of poor countries to Aloud is funded by the Big
lives. Some people are so poor that
profit more. Also I will make sure Lottery Fund.
Archive: home for underprivileged children
The Children’s
Society Magazine
is published by The
Children’s Society
As early as 1881, our founder and is distributed
Edward Rudolf recognised that
free to 180,000
there was a severe shortage of
volunteer workers
and supporters.
medical centres offering services to
© 2007 The
underprivileged children. In memory Children’s Society,
of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, Rudolf
Edward Rudolf
launched a fundraising campaign
House, 69-85
Margery Street,
to open homes that would cater London WC1 0JL.
for these children and in 1887
Designed by
St Nicholas Home in Tooting
Publishing Projects
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was opened. In 1908 St Nicholas
Printing and
expanded, moving to an estate in distribution arranged
Pyrford, Surrey and became St
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Nicholas Orthopaedic Hospital and
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Special School, as seen here (right).
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St Nicholas provided a vital service
to both girls and boys up until the
age of 16. Today, we continue to
work with disabled children in many
of our projects around the country.
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