WS7 Weekly Workbook

Weeks of: 01/24-02/04

Monday (01/24)

1.As you examine the photograph on the Smart • Women in developing countries face
Board, please write your thoughts for the mahy challenges. What might some of
questions below. them be?

• What interesting details do you notice?

• What small business- or micro-

• This woman's micro-enterprise affected
enterprise- might this woman have
lives of her and her family. What might
created?
some of those effects be?

• This woman's micro-enterprise also

affects individuals and families in her
community. What might some of those
effects be?

2.After reading 21.1. Please identify at least four details in the photograph of the woman selling
bread in an African street market that relate to what you just read:

Detail #1: Detail #2:

Detail #3: Detail #4:

 Reading Notes for 21.2 The Geographic Setting_______________________

1.What challenges do people in developing countries in Africa face? Identify and describe three that
you read about.

2.What additional challenges do poor African women face as they try to get out of poverty?

3.How might an informal economy help a disadvantaged

woman living in rural Africa such as the one in the image?
 Ch.21 Geoterms

Geoterm & Symbol Definition Unique Sentence

 Comparing a country's GDI with GDP
4 GDP definition is provided for you. Please write the definition for GDI in the
other outline of Africa.

Country's G.D.P. Country's G.D.I.

5.Five country's ranked lowest G.D.P include:

6.Five country's ranked low and lowest G.D.I. Include:

7.Based on the data you collected about G.D.I. And G.D.P., what conclusions can
we make about the well being of women and a country's GDP?

21.3Grinding Peanuts in Rural Mali

The Africa woman shown here is one of many who created a micro-enterprise. Describe their micro-
enterprise, how they created it, and how it works.

How have these micro-entrepreneurs changed people's lives and these women's community?
21.4 Selling in Uganda's “Poor Man's Market”

This African woman created a micro-enterprise. Describe her micro-enterprise, how

she created it, and how it works.

How has this micro-entrepreneur changed people's live and this woman's economy?

21.5 Cooking Up Comfort Food in Botswana

The African woman shown here is one of many who created a micro-enterprise. Describe
their micro-0enterprise, how they created it, and how it works.

How have these micro-entrepreneurs changed people's lives and these women's
community?