Opinion: If I Were in Charge of... World Poverty - Antonio Akue,
11, Hackney
Children Now
31 August 2005
Today I got a new pair of trainers and it got me thinking, what do children in Africa have? I have been thinking about this because of the Live 8 gig. I read about it in a magazine, about the people starving, and I'm not too young to say what I think is right.
I want to talk about poverty in some parts of Africa. I think it's wrong
for children to be suffering. Living in London is very different from
living in Africa. In first-world countries young people have more chance
of getting a better education and earning more money and eating...