As part of the World Vision fundraising activities that my class is doing, we are doing a readers theatre of a new book written by a friend of one of the kids in my class. This book is called "Ollie's Field Journal" and is about malnutrition in Niger, Africa. The people who are putting together the readers theatre came to our class today and we each got a copy of the book. It looks very interesting!
First of all though, some of you are probably wondering, what is malnutrition! Malnutrition is when children do not get enough food or not enough of the right nutritious food and it mostly happens to babies from age 6 months to five years old. This is a big problem because more than five million children die every year because of malnutrition.
This new book tells the tale of a Canadian girl named Orphelie (Ollie) who goes to Niger, Africa with her mother who is there to help children with malnutrition. Ollie meets many friends, sees a giraffe, learns five words in Hausa and learns lots about malnutrition.
One thing I learned a lot from reading the story and thought was interesting was the Peanut Paste Prescription. This is what doctors prescribe to the children who have malnutrition to help them get better. The Peanut Paste Prescription helps 9/10ths of the children who get it. The Peanut Paste Prescription contains: peanut paste, vegetable fat, dry skimmed milk, dry whey, sugar and mineral and vitamin complex.
This is a very interesting book and if you see it any where read it! I think it will be a great readers theatre too!
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