Life+in+the+Great+Depression

In the Great Depression, many people didn’t have any homes as they couldn’t afford it because there weren’t many jobs at the time. Many people starved of hunger and thirst. There would be an opened café around the corner where homeless or poor families can have Australian meat pie with at least 20% of meat and including cold beer. At schools they would serve cups of free milk to students. Others went home for lunch and others had white bread sandwiches from home, with fillings such as tomato fillings such as bananas, sardines, peanut butter, hundreds and thousands, or dripping. Married woman were not employed to work so they tried to keep their marriage a secret so they could get a job and earn some money Mothers of sick children would take their children to the doctors. When they had enough money, they would have to pay the doctor for the health care. But most of them couldn’t as they didn’t earn enough. Lots of babies who were born at the time would die from lack of food, water, shelter and warmth.

By Emma, Cassandra and Ivy 6LO

Some facts above are not correct: Editing and corrections by Miss Hill.
 * Cafes did not give people free food. It was churches and other charities that had 'soup kitchens' for people who were too poor to buy food. They did not give people pies and beer, they gave them soup, stew or bread.
 * Poor children just had dripping on their bread for lunch; only rich children could have fancy foods like peanut butter or sardines, and bananas were expensive too.
 * Poor families could not afford to go to the doctor or to hospital at all. There was no Medicare, so if you didn't have any money you could not go, unless the doctor said you could pay later.