Presentation Resources
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Stuck on what to say? Check out the following speech notes and visual presentations to help you inspire and motivate this year's Famine participants. These resources cover the main points you need to get across, include prompts on what to say and suggestions for how you can adapt them to suit your specific situations.
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Who is World Vision?
- is the largest international aid and development organisation in New Zealand
- works to build a better world for children by helping the poorest of the poor - regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or gender
- sends at least, on average, 75 per cent of the funds it receives overseas. The money does not pass through governments. It is monitored from the time it is donated in New Zealand to the time it is used in World Vision projects.
- World Vision's mission statement is: Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
Key info on the 40 Hour Famine
- The Famine gives Kiwis the opportunity to understand the problem of global poverty and related issues, and to do something practical about it.
- The Famine is a way we can do something bigger than ourselves, to help people who are suffering because of poverty. It's only one weekend for us, but it's someone's entire life that can be changed.
- The idea behind the Famine is that it's a way to identify with kids overseas, for one weekend, by going with/out something for 40 (or 20) hours. It doesn't matter what your Famine is, so long as you find it challenging to do.
- The Famine began in 1975. It's fantastic that 33 years on, New Zealanders give more than $2.5 million every year in support of the Famine.
- In 2007, more than 118,000 people did the 40 Hour Famine. When you think of the number of people who supported each participant, that's a huge number of New Zealanders who support the Famine in some way.
- Anyone can put on a Famine event, whether it's a runathon, a shantytown, a talent show or an auction. These are some of the brilliant, creative ideas that previous Faminers have come up with. You can adapt them and make them your own or do something completely new. The point is that it's your Famine. Do it your way.
- 75 per cent of money you raise goes directly overseas to projects that are funded by the Famine. These projects are in more than 12 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. The other 25 per cent is used to cover fundraising and education costs here in New Zealand.
- The projects that receive Famine funds help the poor in many different ways. Famine funded projects have provided healthcare in Mongolia and Ethiopia; food in Cambodia and Uganda; shelter in Honduras; water in Tanzania; education in Niger and Nicaragua. Funds are also used for projects working on HIV and AIDS prevention, child labour and with street children.
- In 2008, the 40 Hour Famine is focused on one child, Miranda, who lives in Malawi, Africa. She represents the situation of many others. (We have provided notes about Miranda below, which you can use to tell her story).
- The Famine is constantly evolving. Each year, Famine materials are updated to reflect the changing lifestyles of New Zealanders. In 2008, there will be a live event running over the Famine weekend, called 40 Hour Live. It will be held in Auckland but Faminers around the country can participate by filming their Famine events in the weeks leading up to Famine weekend and uploading their footage directly to the 40 Hour Live site (40hourlive.org.nz). Or they can send the footage to World Vision. So, even if you can't get to 40 Hour Live, you can be part of it by watching it on the web. And we're hoping it will be on TV too!
- World Vision gives back to the people who participate in the 40 Hour Famine by offering leadership and personal development opportunities for young people. Every year, World Vision hosts a leadership camp before the Famine, where young people receive training in areas such as running a successful event, using the media and learning key leadership skills.
- Once the Famine funds are collected, the 20 top-performing senior Famine schools are invited to send one student to Wellington for the Sanitarium Senior Scholarship week. The scholars get to meet MPs, aid and development staff and staff of other non-government organisations. They learn what aid work is like and how World Vision operates. At the end of the week, three students are selected as travelling scholars. They go on a Sanitarium-funded trip in their school holidays to see a World Vision project overseas. In recent years, scholars have been to Vanuatu and Mongolia. In 2007, the travelling scholars had an amazing trip to India, and visited the Born to be Free project, which works to release children from bonded labour.
- Just Juice funds the Intermediate Scholarship week, which recognises students from the 20 top-performing intermediate schools in the Famine. They travel to Auckland for a fun-filled week that includes a visit to Rainbows End and a tour of TVNZ. The students also learn about aid work from World Vision staff.
- There are always plenty of other incentives for Faminers, thanks to Famine sponsors Just Juice, Sanitarium and Burton. Last year, for example, a group of Wellington College students won a trip to Wanaka to see top international snowboarders at the Burton New Zealand Open. A group from Kristin Middle School won an overnight African safari at Auckland Zoo. And Dilworth Junior school students won a special Spacifix concert at their school.
- The biggest incentive for Faminers is the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children in need around the world.
Miranda's story:
Six-year-old Miranda has never known her parents. When she was one, her father died, leaving her family devastated and struggling to get by. Losing Dad also meant losing most of the family's source of income and security. Just one year later, further tragedy struck. While selling vegetables by the roadside to support her young family, Miranda's mother was hit by a car and killed.
Miranda's sister, Loveness, and her brother, Wesley, were left to look after Miranda, her young niece and her two other siblings. Then Loveness got sick; she tested positive for HIV and died not long ago.
Wesley is barely 19 and is doing his best to look after Miranda and her two brothers along with Grace, the 3-year-old daughter Loveness left behind. Wesley struggles to earn enough money for food. Eating breakfast is a luxury for these children; most days they go without.
World Vision discovered Miranda and her four siblings huddled in the corner of their run-down house, after rainwater had flooded most of the room.
Struggles
- There are many days when the family has no food at all
- Wesley gets the children up in the morning, cleans the house, encourages them to go to school - even when there has been no food for breakfast - and works on the house (which is in such a bad state, it would have been demolished and rebuilt if enough money was available)
- Miranda collects the family's water
- from the water kiosk when there is money
- from a well three kilometres away when there is no money
- Miranda
- is aware she doesn't have most of the things others do, and that her friends have a father and mother
- "often lives in isolation and is often absent from school"
- has recently returned to school, and play, after World Vision gave her a school uniform
- The children, apart from Miranda, do not have school uniforms, school books, pencils or other school supplies
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