1. Read the following extract from a booklet. Write true (T) or false (F) for each of the sentences below, according to the information given. If the information is not in the extract, write no information (N). (1.0 m)

Hungry for Change is part of a growing movement of people who want to stop famine throughout the world.

They want to make certain that people in famine areas can protect themselves from the effects of future droughts.

They want to make certain that enough help is quickly available for emergencies in all parts of the worlds.

Hungry for Change has helped to raised millions of pounds for famine relief. It has attracted a great deal of newspaper publicity for its relief work. It has also been successful in persuading the gorvernment in Britain to increase its aid buget by siveral million pounds and to carry out new research into improved crops.

While Hungry for Change works in Britain for an end to poverty and famine in the world, Oxfam is helping to overcome the horrors of famine in such countries as Ethiopia and Sudan with long term development projects.

In North West Darfur, Sudan, Oxfam is helping to increase food production.

-£40 buys a donkey plough.

In Nile Province, Sudan, Oxfam is planting trees in order to provide fuel and shelter, and to protect the soil. It is a remote area, where rainfall is poor and conditions for agriculture and forestry are difficult.

- It costs £2.50 to plant a tree.

In Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Oxfam is supporting a project to supply clean water to villages.

Clean water reduces the risk of disease, especially among children.

-£150 protects a spring; £500 buy a pump for a well.

 

0._T__Hungry for Change wants to get people to help themselves in preventing famine when there is a future shortage of water.

1.__ Hungry for Change is concerned chiefly with famine in Britain.

2.__ Although Hungry for Change has collected money to help people, it wants to make sure the money is used as soon as possible.

3.___ Planting trees will help indirectly to improve food production in Nile Province.

4.___ Donkey ploughs are wanted to increase crops in Sudan.

5.___ Until Oxfam began to help, there was no clean water at all in most villages in Ethiopia.