Unicef

• Jack Beveridge, Grade 6
• Poetry
• 2013

BANG, BANG, BANG of the children working with tools,
The children hardly know anything and they are working to get food.
Every time there working they’re missing work at school,
Unlike the Australian kids they never work they go to school.
They are never cold they are hot working in the sun,
Every minute they’re working they feel like dying not having fun.
If his mum was still alive he would be going to school,
His brother and sister have to work because his dad works at the pool.
Education is so important because they will know what to do,
Because education ensures everything is easy and makes it knowable.
They have to pick cocoa beans and other foods as well,
But instead they could be reading and write and learn and spell.
He actually could know other things like the foods they always pick,
But now he can because he goes to school doing school work.
He is going to school now because UNICEF helped him,
Because on the 23rd of October it was day for children.