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    Upper Intermediate Video Script Unit 12: Changing Lives in Malawi

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    Martha Payne is a young girl from Scotland whose school lunch blog went viral. Her blog highlighted the poor quality of her school lunches. This attracted widespread attention and donations, allowing Martha to raise over £117,000 for charity. The money was used to build a kitchen in Malawi, providing daily meals to 2,000 children and offering hope to the village. Martha and her family visited the new kitchen, seeing firsthand how their efforts had changed lives in one of the world's poorest countries.

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    Upper Intermediate Video Script Unit 12: Changing Lives in Malawi

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    Martha Payne is a young girl from Scotland whose school lunch blog went viral. Her blog highlighted the poor quality of her school lunches. This attracted widespread attention and donations, allowing Martha to raise over £117,000 for charity. The money was used to build a kitchen in Malawi, providing daily meals to 2,000 children and offering hope to the village. Martha and her family visited the new kitchen, seeing firsthand how their efforts had changed lives in one of the world's poorest countries.

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    Martha Payne is a young girl from Scotland whose school lunch blog went viral. Her blog highlighted the poor quality of her school lunches. This attracted widespread attention and donations, allowing Martha to raise over £117,000 for charity. The money was used to build a kitchen in Malawi, providing daily meals to 2,000 children and offering hope to the village. Martha and her family visited the new kitchen, seeing firsthand how their efforts had changed lives in one of the world's poorest countries.

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    Upper Intermediate Video Script Unit 12: Changing Lives in Malawi

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    Martha Payne is a young girl from Scotland whose school lunch blog went viral. Her blog highlighted the poor quality of her school lunches. This attracted widespread attention and donations, allowing Martha to raise over £117,000 for charity. The money was used to build a kitchen in Malawi, providing daily meals to 2,000 children and offering hope to the village. Martha and her family visited the new kitchen, seeing firsthand how their efforts had changed lives in one of the world's poorest countries.

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    Upper Intermediate Video script Unit 12

    Changing lives in Malawi

    C = Commentator, I = Interviewer, M = Martha Payne, D = Martha’s Dad

    C: Martha Payne is an unlikely global star. The young girl from Scotland is changing the lives

    of thousands of children in one of world’s poorest countries. Her simple blog on school

    dinners hit the headlines and won worldwide attention. It’s now helping to feed those who

    are going without, this is the story of how Martha raised money to buy meals in Malawi.

    Martha’s blog – never seconds – showcases just how disappointing her school lunches

    are. And she’s gone viral.

    Martha takes a photo of her school lunch every day and posts it on her blog. She’s not

    always happy about the food because it’s often unhealthy and unappetising. She says

    that she’s a growing kid and her lunches aren’t what she needs to concentrate all

    afternoon at school. Martha Payne dreams of being a journalist, but she didn’t expect to

    hit the headlines, at the age of nine.

    I: So why do you come home hungry from school?

    M: Well because sometimes the meals are a wee bit small sometimes I don’t eat them that

    much cos they’re not very nice.

    C: Martha might not always be keen on her school dinners but her local council weren’t

    impressed with the attention her blog generated. The council banned her from taking

    photos in the school dinner hall. But that just made her site even more popular. The blog

    may have started as a writing project but Martha saw an opportunity. She thought she

    could raise £2000 for charity. As the hits on her site soared the donations rolled in, and

    she raised over a hundred and seventeen thousand pounds.

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    Upper Intermediate Video script Unit 12

    So when it was clear that the blog has raised enough money to build a kitchen in Malawi,

    Martha and her family decided to cancel their summer holiday in France and head to

    Africa instead. Malawi, home to fifteen million people, three quarters of them live on

    around sixty pence a day. Maize porridge, the one meal a day for millions. Donations to

    Martha’s blog funded this kitchen. It means that two thousand children a day will no longer

    go hungry. For Martha and her family this is the moment they had waited for, the chance

    to visit the kitchen they helped to create. The porridge gives this village hope for its

    children.

    I: Do you feel you’ve changed people’s lives here in Malawi?

    D: I think with everyone’s support we have. It’s such simple kind of the little bit of support that

    we’ve shown, which has just echoed around. And I think that’s what social media has

    done. It’s just taken Martha’s response and shared it and encouraged people to do the

    same.

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    Upper Intermediate Video script Unit 12

    World view

    Ju = Jurgen, F = Fauzia, H = Helen, J = Jeanette, Ma = Martin

    Ju: Last year I was involved in a charity event where we raised money for hostels for

    homeless people. It was quite fun. It was uh I think a eighteen storey building and we

    had to av- abseil off the top of it um. I’m not sure if you know what abseiling is, but you

    basically jump off the top with a rope and then keep jumping until you hit the bottom. A

    lot of people were quite frightened but they, they really enjoyed it as well and

    so did I.

    F: I’ve been reading a lot about um, young students like pupils that weren’t you know

    getting the support they needed like um with their reading. And so I was particularly

    moved to do something to help with that. And I found out about a charity called

    Booktime, which allows people to give up some of their time to go to a school and read

    with a child that wouldn’t have that support at home. So you know in a way I, I felt that

    you know I was giving up more than just my time, it, for me it was nothing, it was

    enjoyable and I felt it was doing something for them as well.

    H: I don’t really donate to charity on a regular basis. But I find that, particularly in winter

    um I get really upset by homeless people that I see on the streets. And I just think how

    lucky I am and that’s the time of year that I always try and donate just a little bit of

    money. And I hope that that improves people’s lives in a small way.

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    Upper Intermediate Video script Unit 12

    J: When I was in my teens actually I saw the pictures on television of the famine in

    Ethiopia. I was completely shocked um I suppose everyone was. Um, I had been

    brought up in Malawi and had only come to Britain a few years earlier. So I was um I

    think I was more devastated because the children looked like my friends. I did a lot of

    ice skating at that time and I decided to organise a sports aid event. And I approached

    the ice rink and they were very happy, as you can imagine. And um, I put together all

    the sponsor sheets and uh contacted the local newspaper and they came along and

    took a photograph of all the ice skaters. And um the local radio station came and

    interviewed me and um we raised over a thousand pounds. So I was very pleased with

    that.

    Ma: A charity I was moved to give to is dementia UK, because my father has dementia and

    um I wanted to support the charity to help other people um in the future and hopefully

    they’ll, they’ll find some way to combat this. So that’s why I was moved to do it.

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