The Cost of Living: who pays the price?

The Power Politics project has created new development education materials to meet this need, working closely with five schools in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and partnering with two schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Pupils and teachers have been at the heart of developing the new materials, creating films and comic strips to bring to life the differences and similarities in their day to day lives, and to provoke debate and discussion about the opportunities and challenges that living alongside the oil and gas industry can bring.
For more information and education materials, please visit http://www.powerpolitics.org.uk/

The pupils from Robert Gordon's College investigated prices of houses in Aberdeen, and looked at how the city centre has changed as a consequence of high business rents. In the film 'The Cost of Living: who pays the price?' Chinotu George talks about the huge wealth inequalities in Nigeria, then Dr Joy Onubi, who is doing research in public health, at Aberdeen University, spells out the realities of living on the relatively good salary of a teacher or hospital worker, and the budgeting choices a family would have to make. 'so... you'd buy a kilo of beef, and feed it to the husband... so the women and children would be malnourished... and more likely to die than recover if they got ill.'

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