1. The Paper Bag
Game!

2. Will you make enough bags to survive?

3. Some questions about you
How many taps do you have where you live? 1…
more? 3… 2… 4…
How many rooms do you have where you live?
Do you have to share a bedroom with anyone?

4. Some (more) questions about you
Do you have a shed in your garden?
Does anyone live in it?
Where does your food come from?
Do you grow any of your own food?

5. We are going on a journey…
to India

6. You are living in a village
near the city of
Kolkata

7. Everything you eat, you have to grow yourself…
…or buy at the local market

8. One year it doesn’t rain…
What happens to your crops?
How does that affect you?
What will you do?

9. You move to Kolkata to look for work.
But you are not alone. People from villages all around are also headed to the city.

10. So how will you survive? Beg? Stay with friends? Get a job?
Live on the streets?
Beg?
Get a job?
Steal?

11. Many people survive
on the streets
of Kolkata
by making
paper
bags.

12. The bags are sold to shopkeepers.
They put rice and spices in them for their customers.

13. Ten bags
will earn you
1 rupee

14. Would you survive by
making
paper bags?

15. You will now be shown how
to make a paper bag.

16. Easy?
You’ve got
20 minutes to
make as many
bags as you can.

17. sell them to the shopkeeper
When you’ve made
10 bags
sell them to the shopkeeper

18. So......
Get making!

19. How did you get on? How many rupees did you earn in 20 minutes?
How many would that be in an hour?
How many would that be if you worked for 10 hours a day?

20. You need about 26 rupees a day
EACH
to survive.
Did you earn enough?

21. What would happen if you became ill and couldn’t work?
If you can’t work you can’t earn money to pay for medicine… food… your home…
Or you needed to buy new clothes?
A shirt that costs 30 rupees would mean
making 300
more bags!

22. Are your
hands dirty?
Where would
you wash
them?

23. Did you know…
If you were homeless in Kolkata your aim would be to move into a bustee.
A bustee is the same size as a garden shed.
Can you imagine your whole family living in a garden shed?

24. How did playing this game make you feel?

25. What can you do to help?
Tell other people about what you’ve learnt (and get them to play the game!)
Make paper bags out of wrapping paper and sell them as gift bags
Learn about the Millennium Development Goals (

26. Raise
money for
Christian Aid
who will
use it to
help people in poor countries
around the world.

27. Visit our websites:

28. What will
you
do?