On the 29 November we did a buy nothing day at Cheslyn Hay Primary School In our assembly .It was held by two girls who were called Catherine Davis and Helen Gething.they read it out on a piece of paper.

Some of it said a pensioner in South Africa Lives on 40p a month while people in France can buy. A glass of wine for £200

The Western part of the world has only 20% of the whole world population while we use 80% of the things the world has.

Reported by catherine davis.
Kon Tuesday, 02 December 2003

Here are the details of the assembly:

Assembly 29th November 2003

The Saturday following America's Thanksgiving Day (the start of America's Christmas Shopping season) is observed in many western countries as a day of protest against over-consumerism.

Earlier this year, a London chef created caviar which sold at £634 per portion

A champagne cocktail in the Ritz hotel, Paris costs £277.25

Meanwhile in Zimbabwe a pensioner lives on 40p a month.

The money we have to spend varies enormously around the world.

Only 20% of the world's population live in the west and yet we use 80% of the world's resources- food, oil etc. Is this fair?

On the 29th November, a lot of people are having a "Buy Nothing Day" as a protest.

They will try to buy nothing at all or spend only what they really must. It's a day to live more simply. The slogan is:

"Enough is Enough"!

Buy nothing day should be a day to "switch off from shopping". On Friday 29th, try spending time and not money!

Follow ups:

List the things a family normally spends money on each day (e.g. food, gas , bus fayres etc)

Could your family go a whole day without spending anything?

How do TV commercials and adverts make us want to buy things that we don't need?

Try and make something you normally buy . (The UK buys more processed meals than any other European country.)

Design a poster to support the "Enough is enough" campaign.

The buy nothing day website is : www.buynothingday.co.uk