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 or click one of the links below 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.
Favourite breaktime games in Argentina
What is your Fante Name? Kids from Ghana explain about their local names.
A true story from China...
Meet these school children from Argentina!
These children will not have ipods or nintendos, but you might recognise some of their favourite breaktime games. Maybe you play them yourself at school? Are any of the games these children talk about your favourite game too?
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| This is Fada. She is eight years old. She most enjoys skipping with a rope. | This is Juan. He is ten years old. The games he likes the most are hide-and-seek and playing "it" | This is Rocío. She is nine years old. Like Fada, she enjoys playing with a skipping rope and she also really likes the game Hopscotch. |
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!
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.
