Throughout 'A Dollar a Day,' you can find links to various 'interactions' - fun interactive activities you can play around with - embedded in various sections. Here, we have compiled a list of all the interactions, including slideshows and video clips, that appear on the site. Clicking on any one of them will open the interaction.

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Just click on a link to an interaction you're interested in to get started! Note: these interactions require Flash Player, available for free online.

Interactive Activities:

• Human Development Index Interactive Map: Learn more about the Human Development Index (HDI) with this interactive map.



• Gini Coefficient Interactive Map: Learn about inequality throughout the world with this interactive map.



• Lorenz Curve Demonstration: Confused about the Gini Coefficient and Lorenz Curve? This interaction can help you understand these concepts better.



• A Map of Global Poverty: Discover where poverty exists around the world, and get information on the nature of poverty in various regions such as Latin America and Southeastern Asia.



• Oral Rehydration Therapy Interaction: This interaction shows how special liquid solutions can be made in the developing world to fight the dehydration caused by diarrhea, a disease that kills millions every year.



• The AIDS Clock: See how fast the HIV/AIDS pandemic is spreading and learn about AIDS and poverty.



• A Little Goes a Long Way: This interaction shows how little food relief costs when compared to other common goods. Enter a dollar amount, or choose an item from a list, and see how much food relief that amount could provide.



• Microcredit Interactive Story: Discover how microcredit and microfinance can help impoverished people using this brief, illustrative story where you make the decisions.



• HIPC Initiative Interactive Map: See where the various countries participating in the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative are located with this interactive map.

Slideshows:

• Small Shops Slideshow: View a slideshow of several pictures of shop owners.



• Fishing Slideshow: View a slideshow with colorful pictures depicting the fishing industry in rural Bangladesh.



• A Journey Through Poverty: View a slideshow/journal of a team member who recorded observations about poverty while traveling in Bangladesh.

Videos:

• Bricks Video: See a brief video clip of a man who breaks bricks (for road material) for a living. The job pays about $1 a day.



• Chicken Video: See a brief video clip of a chicken farm that was started with funds from the non-governmental organization known as the Bangladesh Relief Fund.



• Cow I Video: See a brief video clip of a women and her cow. The cow was loaned to her in a microcredit operation running in her village - over time, she will pay back the loan and fully own the cow.



• Cow II Video: This video clip shows more women and cows who are participating in the 'cow-lending' program that is being run by the Bangladesh Relief Fund and another NGO, 'GK.'



• Fishery Video: See a brief video clip of another Bangladesh Relief Fund project - a fishery that uses man-made ponds to raise fish for market.



• High School Video: See a brief video clip of a military high school in Bangladesh.



• School I Video: See a brief video clip of a village schoolroom in Bangladesh. The school is located directly behind the high school shown in the above clip. Notice how different it is from the high school.



• School II Video: See a brief video clip of the outside of a rural school.



• School III Video: See the inside of a schoolroom in a small village in Bangladesh.



• School IV Video: See a classroom in a poor school.



• Tea Gardens Video: See a brief video clip of some tea gardens. These gardens employ many workers, who get paid around 42 cents a day.



• Weaving I Video: See a brief video clip of a weaving business that employs many poor workers.



• Weaving II Video: See another clip of the weaving business shown in the video above.

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