Improving Shanty Towns

Why don't governments in developing countries build new houses?

• Too lazy

• Not strong enough

• Not enough money

• Too silly

Tick all the housing improvements that governments in developing countries do help with.

• cheap bricks

• water tanks on roof

• electricity

• sewage systems

Add the correct word into the end of the sentence.

Under self-help schemes groups of people are shown how to build their own ...........

Tick which jobs you would need to do if you were building your own house in a developing country.

• digging ditches

• cooking dinner

• Putting in sewage pipes

• Knitting a jumper

People working together in shanty towns to build housing improves community spirit. What does this mean?

• People fight with each other

• People work well together

• People are happy

• People are unhappy

What skill do you think you would be best at if you were building a house?

• Brick laying

• Woodwork

• Putting slates on a roof

• Electricity

• Plumbing

How well do you understand today's work about developing shanty towns?

• Really well

• Quite well

• Not very well

• Not at all.