Depressing+Events

Depression was a serious problem that occurred in the 1930s. Many people lost their jobs and had a huge loss in money. Lots of people were to abandon their houses and left all their possessions behind. They had to build shacks and shanties out of rubbish to live in, because they couldn’t pay their rent. The depression happened all around the world, the cause of this was collusion on Wall Street in London. During the great depression organizations set up soup kitchens to stop starvation. Parents sent children to scavenge for food or to go steal from the rich. Children didn't have proper facillities to help them with their needs, so their parents had to make use with what what they had, such as making nappies out of boiled flour bags, mending old clothes to fit them and covering holes in their shoes with cardboard. Medical issues were very serious because there were no vaccines to cure people from dreadful diseases, such as the polio virus which could affect people in a deathly way. Homeless people often tried to cure their children with hot towels but usually the towels were infected or filthy. By Poojani, Raihana and Mariam (6CC) and minor editing by Miss Hill.