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How
many people live in your home? Some people
in the world live in very big groups indeed.
The Yanomami live in the Amazon rainforest.
Up to four hundred people live in a building
called a Yano - it’s like a whole
village under one roof! |
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©
Dennison Berwick/Survival |
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 Yanos
are built in clearings in the forest
and look like giant doughnuts from the
air. The Yanomami use palm leaves to
make an enormous thatched roof that
is supported by timber poles made from
forest trees. Each family has its own
area with a fireplace and somewhere
to hang their hammocks. Although each
family is separated from the next by
the poles that hold up the Yano, they
all face the open space in the middle.
Find out more about the Yanomami in
Global
Eye Spring 2001. |
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How
would your life be different if you lived
in a Yano? |
 About
9,000 Yanomami live in the Amazon, but their
lifestyle is under threat. Survival is an
organisation that is trying to help the Yanomami.
You can learn more about them at Survival’s
website. |
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The
Yanomami live as a ‘community’.
A ‘community’ is a group of people
that have something in common. They all help
to keep the Yano clean, and they work together
to grow food in ‘gardens’ cleared
in the forest near the Yano. |
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live in communities too. Our neighbourhood
and school are both types of community. How
many communities do you belong to? |
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To
find out, why don’t you draw a ‘Me
Map’? Think about the people you see
and the places you go to everyday. How important
are they to you?
to download and print a ‘Me Map’.
On your ‘Me Map’, write the names
of the people who mean the most to you closest
to ‘me’ on the sheet. Write the
people that are less important to you further
away. Then, put the places that mean the most
to you closest to the ‘me’, and
the places that mean less to you further away. |
| Look
at your finished ‘Me Map’. How
many different communities are on your ‘Me
Map’? |
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Show
your ‘Me Map’ to a friend. What
parts of your maps are similar and which are
different? |
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Some people have been improving their community
by thinking about the way buildings are made.
Visit the Homes
That Last page to find out more. |
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