"Wheely" Rewarding Work

Meals on Wheels is a volunteer group that prepare and deliver meals to elderly and disabled people in Australia. It started in the 1950s and now delivers 14.8 million meals per year to help 53,000 people! The people who receive the meals also really enjoy the company of the volunteers and being able to have a chat because it may be the only visitor they have for the day. The reason Meals on Wheels are in the news is because they don't have enough volunteers and their future is in danger if they can't find more helpers.

I think that our society relies on the wonderful work of groups like Meals on Wheels, Vinnies, Red Cross, Salvos etc. The government should force all young people to volunteer at least once in their life. Especially when you are at high school or university, you can surely find a couple of hours a week to do something for someone else! Stop being selfish Australia, put down the XBox or Playstation and get out their and volunteer, there are people who need your help.

This website has more information on how to volunteer and has heaps of opportunities, big or small. Pass it onto your friends, family and anyone you know: http://www.govolunteer.com.au/

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Seeing Double!

Cloning has been in the news ever since Dolly the sheep was the first mammal to cloned in the 1990s. Cloning means to make a genetically identical copy of something else, like the naturally occurring identical twins. Scientists have been experimenting with cloning to try and help cure diseases, but it is very controversial because they are actually creating tiny embryos (like what a baby is when it is first made inside a female). There is also concerns that this technology might be used to clone a complete human.

This could be cool!

I believe that we should not allow scientists to create human embryos just to take a few cells out. Every life is equal and even if it is just a tiny embryo, we all started as embryos at some stage! Once we allow this sort of cloning it could be dangerous to society- what if someone created a clone of themselves to commit crimes? Is that the sort of society you want to live in?

I can see the potential benefits of helping people with diseases but science must find another way to help, not be creating and killing cloned embryos!

The video below provides even more arguments for not cloning humans:


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