Homeless - poem written by students	Homelessness – The facts:
Friendship - the A to Z of Friendship
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Discrimination1 - poems written by students
Discrimination2- poems written by students
Discrimination3- poems written by students

Homelessness – The facts:

It takes more than a roof over your head to make a home. Worldwide, more than 1,600 million people ( that’s almost a third of the world’s population) live in ‘live-threatening’ and ‘health-threatening’ conditions – overcrowded and lacking in basic services.
No-one can feel at home when their life is threatened by illness and disease because of where they live.
Bad housing, poor diet and an unhealthy physical environment cause tuberculosis to flourish; poor sanitation and water supplies foster diarrhoeal diseases. Hundreds of millions of people who lack the basic resources needed to make a decent home are left without one – and their number is growing. The proportion of poor people in the world has fallen slightly, but with a rising world population their total number is increasing fast.
Only very rough estimates are made of the number of homeless people in the wealthy countries of the ‘North’; but all of them show that the number has been increasing sharply.

Reasons for homelessness:

Detailed analysis reveals that 40% of those officially homeless in Britain became so because
· parents, relatives or friends were no longer willing or able to accommodate them.
· Political repression,
· war,
· hunger and
· environmental degradation
force increasing numbers of people to flee their homes.
 

These are the most important ones and they only refer to homeless in Britain.
Can you think of some other possible reasons ?
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Homeless
 

Homeless sleep on park benches
Homeless sleep in stations
They want a house - not a rich one
But given with compassion

Homeless want food
Homeless want clothes
They are like the ones
who want to love

They want a house
To have a job
They want money
They just want to be loved

Where can I go?
Where can I stay?
Are the questions
They make today

Liberty is flying
Like birds
It is like dancing
With the one I love.

10th J , no.16 & 19
( 1996/97 )

Kill the difference
Be all equal
In colour, in appearance
Make the difference small

You sick mind!
Each one is a person
Fake? You’re blind?
Don’t pressure

They are what they are
They feel what they feel
Accept the difference
Accept their will
Accept them as they are

Ricardo B. ( 11ºB - 1995/96 ) - go to top

Black, white, brown, yellow, red.
What are the colours of your skin?

What really matters, is it the colour of your skin? ...
It’s not the skin that loves ...
What loves is the heart ...
So what’s the colour of your heart?
Why doesn’t everyone know that the heart hasn’t got a colour?
The heart is the same for everyone!
All hearts come from one Big heart
God!
In our world people are catalogued in closets with drawers
For each colour of the skin!
But this is very bad!
The sky has just one colour!
The sea has just one colour!
The sun has just one light that shines  for all of us!
So why divide people, we are all equal!
The heart is just one ...
The heart beats the same in everyone!

Ema, Carla, Vera ( 11ºB - 1995/96 )  - go to top

Discrimination

I wake up in the morning
And look around myself
I really don’t believe in what I’ve seen
I saw violence and sexism
I saw slavery and racism

I saw discrimination
I saw... I saw... my world??
Is this a real world??
Is this my world??

I heard somebody singing
I’m in the end of the corridor
I walk, walk, walk
I want to find the music
I also want to sing
I want to find liberty

Finally I find
The end of the corridor
I find a new world
Everything is peaceful

Birds are flying
In a blue, blue sky
Horses are running
In a coloured, green land
Someone is singing
A beautiful, beautiful song

Am I dreaming?
I must be...
Liberty is singing just for me ! ...
 

10th I (1996/97) go to top
 

The A-Z of friendship

A Friend....

 (A)ccepts you as you are
 (B)elieves in "you"
 (C) Calls you just to say "HI"
 (D)oesn't give up on you
 (E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
 (F)orgives your mistakes
 (G)ives unconditionally
 (H)elps you
 (I)nvites you over
 (J)ust "be" with you
 (K)eeps you close at heart
 (L)oves you for who you are
 (M)akes a difference in your life
 (N)ever judges
 (O)ffers support
 (P)icks you up
 (Q)uiets your fears
 (R)aises your spirits
 (S)ays nice things about you
 (T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it
 (U)nderstands you
 (V)alues you
 (W)alks beside you
 (X)-plains things you don't understand
 (Y)ells when you won't listen and..
 (Z)aps you back to reality
 

A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift,
A friend is someone we treasure for our friendship is a gift
A friend is someone who fills our lives with beauty, joy, and grace
And makes the world we live in a better and happier place.

(autor desconhecido)
 

 

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION

“TO RENOUNCE LIBERTY IS TO RENOUNCE BEING A MAN, TO SURRENDER THE RIGHTS OF HUMANITY AND EVEN ITS DUTIES.”

            J.J. ROUSSEAU
 

“ ALL HUMANS ARE BORN FREE AND EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS. THEY ARE ENDOWED WITH REASON AND CONSCIENCE AND SHOULD ACT TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER IN A SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD.”

         UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ART.1)