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=Statistics= USA || $47,200 || 36.9 years || 78.37 years || 99% || 2.06 children born/woman || Canada || $39,400 || 41 years || 81.38 years || 99% || 1.58 children born/woman || Dominican Republic || $8,900 || 26.1 years || 77.31 years || 87% || 2.44 children born/woman || India || $3,500 || 26.2 years || 66.8 years || 61% || 2.62 children born/woman || Haiti || $1,200 || 21.4 years || 62.17 years || 52.9% || 3.07 children born/woman ||
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//Life in Canada-//
A girl living in Canada Nicole Ruegg School here is very similar to school in the States. We go from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and then possibly on to university. In Ontario, where I live, we have Junior and Senior Kindergarten. On our lunch breaks we go out for lunch together or eat lunch in the cafeteria. We are all into hockey in Canada so we spend lots of Saturday evenings watching hockey games. Me and my friends spend lots of time listening to music and taking lots of pictures of ourselves hanging out together. We like to shop but we mostly go over to Buffalo, New York because they have better clothes for lower prices over there. We like to spend time on weekends watching movies together, hanging out at each others houses and spending lots of time outside. In the summer we play games like Capture the Flag and Manhunt. We also do lots of swimming. A lot of people in the States think that Canada is cold all year round but in Ontario, we have warm summers and cold winters. It doesn't get as hot in summer as it does in the States. In the winter we will ski, go skating on the pond near my house and go snow tubing in the States. We speak English here in Ontario, but in some parts of Canada, Quebec mostly, French is more common.
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Canada is a lot like the United States in many ways. They have a good standard of living and teens there do a lot of the same things as teens in the US.
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//Life in the Dominican Republic-//
A missionary who lived in Haiti for 18 years and currently lives in the Dominican Republic Melina Lane (Telling me what the life of the poor is like in this country) The majority of Dominicans are a mix of African and Spanish. They speak Spanish. While the capital cities and the some of the other cities are modern, the provinces and the outer villages are often very poor and primitive. There they live in very small houses with only a few rooms. They keep livestock and grow small crops, fruit trees and gardens. In these villages, there is no going to the grocery market for supplies, any food is home grown. There are still whole towns with no paved roads, electric or water. People work at a variety of jobs. Agriculture is the base of the economy, but many people work in other capacities. There are truck drivers, people who sell in the markets, people who set up many small restaurants, taxi drivers, construction workers, sand and gravel miners, fishermen, shoe repairmen and just about any other job you can think of. Many, many of the poor work in the middle and upper class families homes as cooks, maids, nannies, drivers, yard keepers, guards, wash girls, care takers or other things. Many poor also work for big land owners chasing cows or goats, harvesting coffee, planting or other agriculture work. To work as a store clerk or bank teller in the cities, they must be finished school and so many of them never can do anything but hard or menial labor. Most people work 6 and ½ days a week and get a full day off after every two weeks.
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A teenager my family sponsors through Compassion International Banoth Suman Banoth is a 17 year old boy living on the plains of Purigutta Thanda in India. There, the houses are typically made of dirt, clay and thatch. Banjara (a tribal language) and Telugu are the most commonly spoken languages where Banoth lives. Adults living in Purigutta Thanda generally make about $43 dollars per month working as day laborers. Banoth lives with his parents and one sibling. He buys and sells things in the market for his parents. He gets schooling from the project in his village. When we first started sponsoring him, he only knew Telugu and was very poor. His family could barely afford food let alone new clothes or anything else. He now writes letters to us in English and has been able to purchase new clothing to wear thanks to our sponsorship. Banoth is so happy when he is able to purchase things we see as basic commodities. It's special for him to buy a new pair of shoes or pants. Unlike us in the US, Banoth and his friends love school very much. Those in the project are lucky they are able to have an education and they take school very seriously.
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//Life in Haiti-//
A missionary who lived in Haiti for 18 years and currently lives in the Dominican Republic Melina Lane (Telling me what life is like for the poor in these countries) Haitians are a population of 95 percent pure African descent with 5 percent being racially mixed of African and French. They speak Haitian Creole and French. Life in Haiti is different for different groups, but since most of the people are poor, I will tell you what the life of the poor people are like. Typically a family will live in a very small home of only one or two rooms. I have personally known families of 8 people who lived and slept in a one room hut. Many people still have thatched roofs and dirt floors and a latrine out back. It is very common to see the people carrying water from a well or spring in buckets to their homes as they do not have running water. In very remote areas some people do not even have latrines and often walk a mile to water. Many people sleep on the ground on woven mats at night and roll them up during the day. If they have beds, they are often rope beds. Typical furnishings for a poor home would be a small wooden table and 2 chairs, what ever sleeping materials they use and three stones set up as a cook fire with one or two pots to cook in. Most people in the mountains keep chickens and a pig for meat and trade and most of them raise large gardens and fruit trees for food and trade. Not all the kids go to school, but the ones that do must wear uniforms. School is mandatory till the 6th or 8th grade, but many children do not or cannot go and some communities have no school.
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