Dear, Jillian November 20, 2008

My name is Chelsea Blackett and I am a 7th grade student in Snellville, Georgia. And in my Social Studies class we are learning about Africa and all the challenges they are facing, like the lack of water supply. And in this essay I am going to write about the challenges they face.

Deforestation occurs when forests are to cut trees for clear space, like cultivation (of crops), grazing (of animals) or settlement (for humans). This is a problem for Africa because people are cutting down trees, that don’t need to be cut down and are harming the animals and their living space and people are cutting trees down, because after they cut so many trees their grazing for animals is less. The next thing that I am going to talk about is Africa water Quality.

Africa’s Water Quality is very low, Africans have very limited
Amount of water and only 47% of Sub-Saharan Africans have access to safe drinking water, and we need everyone to have safe drinking waterhave of the country doesn’t have safe drinking water.Because the water that they have is not clean and people are getting sick from this water. So to fix this problem people have been building “play pumps” theses “play pumps” allow the kids to play on it and, when the kids are spinning this around the Africans are getting clean, fresh water from underground. I think if they build a lot of these Africa will have access to clean water. The next thing I am going to talk about is Desertification.

Desertification is the land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting primarily for human activities and influenced by climate variations, Desertification have effect Africa because people want to grown crops their but , they can’t because it is to dry and humid that all the crops will dry out and the wouldn’t have anywhere else to put them. And it has also affected Africa by the conversion of productive land into the desert. The last thing that I am going to talk about is Africa Soil.

Africa soils is low, subsistence farming and a lot of people farm or grow their crops on Africa soil, so people want to stop this and they do not want anyone to hurt their soil. But they have good soil if people stop faming and growing crops and building houses. A way to stop this is by not letting the people grow crops. In Africa soil a lot of things can be found rubber, ivory, timber and copper. It has been wonderful writing to you and I hope you like my Essay.

Chelsea Blackett Chelsea Blackett