DFID | About DFID

Race Against Global Poverty is an interactive educational quiz game from DFID. Aimed at young people aged 11 to 16, the online game makes learning about the developing world fun and stimulating.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featuring attractive animation and animal characters, it increase players' understanding of development through questions about world poverty and DFID's work to tackle it. The game is one of a range of activities that DFID is providing to young people to raise their awareness of development issues and get them involved in the fight against poverty. Play the game online here.

DFID | About DFID

Rat infestation hits Bangladesh

An infestation of rats is creating severe food shortages in the impoverished Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh, close to the borders of India and Burma.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Rat infestation hits Bangladesh

India to pay poor families to bring up girls

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The Indian government today announced a scheme to pay poor families to give birth to and bring up girls in an attempt to stop families nationwide aborting an estimated half a million female foetuses a year.

Families in seven states are set to benefit from cash payments amounting to 15,500 rupees (£193) to keep and bring up their female children.

India to pay poor families to bring up girls | World news | guardian.co.uk

Spotlight on Lagos poverty crisis

We have report from Lagos in Nigeria on how the city's spiralling population has increased the numbers living in slums. Formerly the capital of Nigeria, Lagos's uncontrolled population growth has made one of the world's largest cities one of the world's largest slums.

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Link to Channel 4 - News - Spotlight on Lagos poverty crisis