Letter

This week in ruma whitu for literacy our task was to make a letter to our whanau telling them some things that we know about refugees and how we can help and so on on. I really enjoyed this activity because you get to write this really interest but still a little funny, letter it was so much fun. We are getting further and further into the book refugee and the book is getting really really good. Hope you enjoy!

Dearest Mother & Father I hope you are going alright because I am doing great. I am learning heaps about refugees and even about the toiletries they had to use on the boats (hint they don’t have any) and I will tell you they weren’t very clean and disinfected, instead they were probably Infected with some sort of virus. Luckily that isn’t all I am going to tell you because that would be extremely boring wouldn’t it. Anyway let's get onto it! 

 Why do people become refugees, you ask me? 

People becoming refugees is totally up to themselves of course even though you probably knew that. Becoming a refugee means that you have to leave your war torn country. They usually leave in the dead of night unless they are stupid then they would leave during the day and probably get shot while trying. 

 Which countries do NZ refugees come from? 

Why? People come to New Zealand from many different countries but I know that one of those countries is Poland because they made a children's camp in Wellington, isn't that the place where you live so cool. The children's camp was for all of those kids whose parents were fighting or the kids that have no parents guess what they are called orphans. 

 What can we do to help? 

One thing that we can do to help refugees is stop fighting because when you think about it all you get out of it is the lovely feeling of killing people which still isn’t very lovely is it anyway so people think it is, Not me of course but other people like Hitler for example. That killer of a man is a mean person that gets pleasure from killing people. Another thing to add is that you can donate food online to help all human beings have food to fill their stomachs and their families. 

 Why should we help? We need to help these refugees because they have such a hard life and we need to help them get to a safer country or have enough food and water to feed their families. Helping our refugees is probably one of the most important things in our world because I assure you most countries have one or two refugees that live there so we need to keep helping them to make our world a better place. I also have to say that we have them here in New Zealand. Thank you very much. 

 What local organisations do we have to help?

 I completely have know Idea what organisations we have to help but I definitely think that salvation army would probably be a helping organisation because people give them their old stuff that is still in good condition and the workers bring the price down a little so it is more affordable for their customers which is a really good idea. Well I think that it is anyway. 

 How can refugees help us? 

I think that refugees can help us as well because whatever country they come from probably has a different culture and may have a different language so when they come here to New Zealand we learn heaps of new things about their culture and their unique languages which is pretty interesting to learn. That is what I have been learning this year

From Emma