Describe what you know about life in the trenches.

Trenches are made during a war. There are absolutely no hygiene in it, bacteria spreads around because of the many injuries the soldiers get during a battle. Most of the time, rats lived and bred in the trenches, which causes soldiers to get diseases. There are other diseases caused by lack of cleanliness with corpses lying around and dirty rainwater, one of them is the Trench Foot disease. The soldier's feet would slowly rot because of the long period of time they stay in the trenches with water. Due to loads of stress, some soldiers fall into shell-shock as well.

Why do you think the idea of conflict is more prominent than peace in the world?

I think the idea of conflict is more prominent because it's human nature to want to hear or watch bad things happening like a conflict war as it's interesting, compared to a story only about making peace. People would rather see others fighting because it has more drama to it, it's just human nature.

What is conflict?

When two sides have opposing views on a subject, it will create conflict if none of them backs down. Conflict also means a clash of something against another.

Grace & Fairtrade

Grace is excited because she finally gets to go to school because her father is working with Kuapa Kokoo and he is getting higher profit from his cocoa. Usually, it's only the boys who go to school in Ghana but Grace has the chance to start schooling even though she may be behind some of her classmates. 

Measuring Development

Diamond Rank

1) 3 (Gross National Product)

2) 1 (Literacy rates)

3) 9 (Infant mortality rate)

4) 2 (Number of people doctor)

5) 4 (Population with access to clean water)

6) 8 (Population Growth Rates)

7) 7 (Population living in urban ares)

8) 6 (People employed in agriculture)

9) 5 (Population density)

The most important indicator to me is the Gross National Product because economy plays a vital role in measuring development of a country because it's leads to access of basic needs. So, if a country is wealthy, it could provide education, clean water and shelter to most civillians. The least important indicator is Population Density because it doesn't really determine the status of a country in terms of development. A country may be big but poor, and at the same time, another country could be big but rich. The indicators in the middle are the smaller factors to measuring development but also important because these factors add up to the main conclusion whether the country is doing good or bad. We didn't use Car Ownership because we figured it's the least important factor out of all of them.

How do you think we can measure development?

We could measure a country's development in terms of economy status, rate of trade, citizens' standard of living and the amount of access to essential needs. We could also gather statistics on age expectancy, population, death rate, amount of medical healthcare and birth rate.

Reflect about the hazards fair:

What went well?

The kids were astonished with our visual presentation. My teammates did a good job at explaining the hands-on to the kids.

What could have been better?

The box of our hands-on, because it was leaking and wasn't sturdy after it got wet.

Describe the experience.

I was quite nervous at first, I was worried about our hands-on experiment, our explanation skills. But once it started we just went with the flow and we managed well. It turned out to be a refreshing experiment because I've been to fairs but I've never been involved in one, so it was a new experience to be behind the counter explaining my work to others.