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i WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE i
THE PAPER i THE INFORMATION YOU NEED? i
i Where else but the 'Welcome to
i West Swindon Coffee Morning.' Every i
BAG GAME Tuesday morning 10-11.30am Community
• Suite, Link Centre. Arrivals Officer •
As part of "One World Week" the West i Pam Pixton will there to tell you
Swindon Ecumenical Justice and Peace Group everything you need to know.
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Church. We were invited to imagine our-
selves to be living on the streets of that DEVELOPED BY DOCTORS OVER 14 YEARS.
IT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN AS MANY DAYS.
great city, as part of a family whose only
means of livelihood was making paper bags
out of sheets of newspaper and selling them ALISON COLE on 871874
to a none-too-scrupulous merchant.
After learning how to make the paper THE Cambridge DIET
bags, each family was given a "problem"
that they had to deal with during the even-
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move off the streets into a "Bustee", one
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One family was lucky enough to win Have qualified teachers available for
a lottery, but only two others earned enough PRIVATE TUITION
to pay rent on a "Bustee". This was partly Primary, C.S.E., '0' & 'A' Level G.C.E.
because half way through the evening the and the new G.C.S.E.
bottom fell out of the paper bag market (and Telephone: Swindon 38730 or Avebury 368
out of some of the bags we had so hastily NEW TEACHERS always welcome to apply.
stuck together).
We had learned a little of some of the
problems faced by one group of people in
the Third World, and we learned a little
more about what help is being given as we
watched a Christian Aid film about the
people living in the "Bustees".
Proceeds from the well attended even-
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