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**[|www.stopdisastersgame.org]**
==**Take charge of an area prone to natural disasters and help them prepare, and hopefully prevent at least some damage. "Stop Disasters" is a game aimed at children to teach them about prevention and show them what could happen. It's very easy to start playing and has you preparing for multiple types of disasters.**==

**[|Wara Blong Life - Water for Survival]**
Learn about global water and sanitation issues by participating in this interactive classroom. Wara Blong Life is an Oxfam Water for survival programme educational project based on the technology, social studies, and health and PE curriucla. The aim of the project is to encourage creative problem solving in a real world context.

**[|Darfur is Dying] and Taking IT Global -** [| Ayiti The Cost of Life]
code Thought you might be interested in this recently-added conscience-raising feature on Google Earth ...it is best summed up in a BBC news story on the subject:

"Using hi-tech satellite imagery, photos and eyewitness accounts, the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region is being brought into the homes of millions of internet users...The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC has teamed up with Google's internet mapping service, Google Earth, to try to halt what they see as genocide. .." (Full BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6543185.stm)

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[|Aboriginal Studies Press - Our Tracks] Our tracks, part of Aboriginal Studies is a place for reading, sharing and enjoying the stories of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islands people.

code Thought you might be interested in this recently-added conscience-raising feature on Google Earth ...it is best summed up in a BBC news story on the subject:

"Using hi-tech satellite imagery, photos and eyewitness accounts, the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region is being brought into the homes of millions of internet users...The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC has teamed up with Google's internet mapping service, Google Earth, to try to halt what they see as genocide. .." (Full BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6543185.stm)

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