AIG Global Awareness

In your notebook, reflect on the following questions:  What problems did you face in the past week?  What is your biggest worry?  What did you purchase in the last month that made you really happy? What kind of problems do you face?

WHAT WE THINK ARE PROBLEMS, AREN’T REALLY PROBLEMS AT ALL. CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO CLIP OF FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS BEING READ BY THIRD WORLD CHILDREN. CLICK HERE Do you really have problems?

How do your problems compare? First World Problems  iPhone needs to be upgraded  Pizza has too much grease  Battery just died  Late to soccer practice  Wi-Fi doesn’t have enough band width to support all my devices Third World Problems  No clean drinking water  Not enough food to feed family  Have to walk miles to access river to wash clothes by hand  No bathroom facilities  No access to electricity

How reliable is your access? Create a column grid and label like the example below. Reflect on how reliable is your access to the following: Electricity Food Security Safe Drinking Water SanitationCooking

Sierra Leone, Africa What would a day be like in Sierra Leone? Click here Click here to find out. Go back to the grid and record the access for each in Sierra Leone :

100 People: World Portrait click here for video click here for video. The world population is over 7 billion. By statistically representing the world population as 100 people, it makes complex issues more comprehensible and help get a stronger sense of the big picture. If the World were 100 PEOPLE: 50 would be female 50 would be male 26 would be children There would be 74 adults, 8 of whom would be 65 and older There would be: 60 Asians 15 Africans 14 people from the Americas 11 Europeans 33 Christians 22 Muslims 14 Hindus 7 Buddhists 12 people who practice other religions 12 people who would not be aligned with a religion 12 would speak Chinese 5 would speak Spanish 5 would speak English 3 would speak Arabic 3 would speak Hindi 3 would speak Bengali 3 would speak Portuguese 2 would speak Russian 2 would speak Japanese 62 would speak other languages 83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not 7 would have a college degree 22 would own or share a computer 77 people would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but 23 would not 1 would be dying of starvation 15 would be undernourished 21 would be overweight 87 would have access to safe drinking water 13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

References: Sources: Fritz Erickson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ferris State University (Formerly Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay) and John A. Vonk, University of Northern Colorado, 2006; Returning Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison Wisconsin, Unheard Voices: Celebrating Cultures from the Developing World, 1992; Donella H. Meadows, The Global Citizen, May 31,