Children's Page!
Welcome to the children's page!
Kids, this page is for you! Here you can find out about other children from all over the world. Scroll down to find out anything, from what breaktime games children like best in Argentina, to the story of a little boy in China, whose mother wanted to help him all she could.
You can also make a charity box to collect coins in to help other children. Thanks to Sophie, aged 12, for designing the box!
So, what can you find on this page?
1. Favourite breaktime games in Argentina.
2. What is your Fante Name? Kids from Ghana explain about their local names.
3. A true story from China...
4. Building Blocks in Romania
5. Wild Animals in South Africa
6. Make a Charity Box
Breaktime Games in Argentina!
These children in Argentina are having their breaktime in the middle of the school day.
What games do you like to play during your breaktime? Here in Argentina, one girl, called Rocio, aged nine, says she most likes skipping with a rope and also playing hopscotch. A boy called Juan, aged ten, said he most liked playing "it" and also hide-and-seek. Do you play these games too?
What is your Fante Name?
Ghana is a country in Africa. At school the children learn English, but there are lots of local languages in Ghana. This means that people speak different languages in different parts of Ghana. In part of southern Ghana, a language called Fante is spoken. The people there also have Fante names as well as English ones. These children, Elizabeth and Nelson, from Ghana will explain more.
 | "Hello! My name is Elizabeth. I am six years old. I live in an orphanage, near the town of Cape Coast, in Ghana. My Fante name is Adwoa. You say it like this: Ad-ju-ah. Can you say that? Adwoa is my Fante name because I was born on a Monday. Your Fante name depends on the day of the week you were born on. " |
 | "Hi, I'm Nelson. I am nearly seven years old and I live at the same orphanage as Elizabeth. My Fante name is Kodwo. It is pronounced Kod-jo. Can you say that? I was born on a Monday too. Like Elizabeth said, your Fante name depends on the day you were born on. There are two sets of Fante names - one for girls and one for boys. Can you find yours in the table below?" |
Here is the the table of Fante Names!
All the Fante names are pronounced as you would read them, except for 'Adwoa' and 'Kodwo,' but Elizabeth and Nelson have already told you how to say those names!
| Day | Girls' Names | Boys' Names |
| Monday | Adwoa | Kodwo |
| Tuesday | Abena | Kobena |
| Wednesday | Ekua | Kweku |
| Thursday | Aba | Yaw |
| Friday | Efua | Kofi |
| Saturday | Ama | Kwamina |
| Sunday | Esi | Kwesi |
The children at the orphanage always ask visitors what their Fante names are. Now you would be able to tell them what yours is!
A True Story from China...
This story is about a mother's love for her son with cerebral palsy and how she went on to help lots of other children with cerebral palsy.
In China, there is a large city called Shanghai. Shanghai is an amzing place. A river runs through it and on either side are the tallest skyscrapers you will ever have seen.
There is a woman called Gao Ya Li who lives in Shanghai. She had a baby son and was so happy when he was born. She named him Lulu. After a few months she noticed that Lulu wasn't doing the same things that all the other babies his age were doing. She was told he had something called cerebral palsy. This meant he had problems with his muscles, so he could not move them in the same way other children could. Gao Ya Li was very sad.
Gao Ya Li wanted to help her son very much. She went to all the hospitals in Shanghai, but nobody could help Lulu. She travelled around to different places in China for four years, but still she could not find anyone to help her son. She says that she travelled over almost half of China - and China is one of the biggest countries in the world!
Gao Ya Li started to learn how people helped children with cerebral palsy in places like Europe, Australia, Canada and Hong Kong. Since she could not find anyone to help Lulu in Shanghai, she set up her own centre for children with cerebral palsy. At this time, Lulu was about six years old.
Lulu is now a teenager. He was helped very much by his mum's centre and went on to go to secondary school, just like all the other kids his age. Now, Gao Ya Li's centre helps a lot of children, just like it helped her son.
Building Blocks in Romania
We gave some toys to children in a Home in Romania, including these building blocks. This boy, called Vlad, is playing with the blocks.
Do you like to build things? What would you make with the blocks?
The blocks come in all different colours. Here are the names of some colours in Romanian. See if you can say them out loud.
Yellow - Galben
Green - Verde
Pink - Roz
White - Alb
Black - Negru
Wild Animals in South Africa
Lots of wild animals live in South Africa, like lions, zebras, elephants, rhinos and leopards. The children at one creche in South Africa got to dress up as animals for a play. Have you ever been in a school play? What did you have to wear?
The children at Seawind Educare in Cape Town dressing up!
If you could be an animal in a play, like these children were, which animal would you choose?
Make a Charity Box
Thanks to Sophie, aged 12, who made this great design!
You can make one of these boxes to keep your coins in, to help other children.
You will need: scissors and sticky tape, once you have printed the box design. You might also want to use card, so you will need glue too.
1. Click here to download the money box template and then print it.
2. If you are using card, stick the paper with the template on it to the card.
3. Cut out the template.
4. Cut out the black slit (in the middle of the sun). This will be where you can put coins in.
5. Make a fold on each of the four lines going through the sun. Also, make a fold along the top of the grass with flowers.
6. Once you have made the folds, the box should start coming together. Put sticky tape along the touching edges to make the box.
Your box should now be ready and you can start collecting coins! Get a grown up to help you donate the coins once you have filled the box.