Light of Love Children’s Home – Tuni

Lesson 1 - India

TRUE or FALSE?

Fact…The population of Scotland is just over 5 million.

What do you think?The population of India is 24 million.

FALSE…The population of India is a staggering

1,139,964,932 (just over 1 billion)!

TRUE or FALSE?

What do you think?

The Light of Love home in Tuni is situated in East Godavari, a poor district in the Andhra Pradesh region of India where the percentage of girls who are able to read and write is 4%.

TRUE…

Do you think it is fair that girls have very little opportunity for getting a good education?

TRUE or FALSE?

Fact…A train journey from Edinburgh to London takes roughly

5 hours.

What do you think?The time taken to travel by train between New Delhi in

the north and Bangalore in the south is more than 24 hours?

TRUE… It takes 33 hours!

TRUE or FALSE?

What do you think?

Of India’s 700 000 rural primary and upper schools, only 1 in 6 have toilets.

TRUE…

What would it be like if your school had no toilets?

Look closely at these photos of India

…what do you notice?

Now look at these photos of Scotland

…can you describe the images?