SO, you have bad sickness and diarrhoea? Just tuck yourself into bed with a nice hot water bottle and a cup of tea – you’ll be better within 24 hours.

But what happens if you don’t have the luxury of all that?

What happens if you don’t have a nice bed?

What happens if you don’t even have clean running water?

Spare a thought for young people stuck in poverty – people living in places like Ghana. If they get sick, what do they do?

They just wait to die, they have no form of treatments and they have no doctors. All they have is water full of bacteria.

So while you’re all comfortable on the sofa with your Domino’s pizza watching X Factor, they’re on the filthy streets trying to provide for their sick families, wearing nothing but a disgusting rag for clothing and gasping for a drink. Does that seem fair to you?

The thing is, this is happening every day, all day and people living in countries like ours choose to ignore it.

There are so many things we could do to help yet it seems people just don’t care.

Five thousand children die every day from drinking dirty water.

Three thousand children die every day from diarrhoea.

Twenty-four thousand children die every day from starvation.

If people were willing to help, money could be donated and aid workers could travel over to poor countries and help build shelters, toilet blocks, shower blocks, schools and houses.

All these things would help Third World countries so much it’s unbelievable.

All of this is coming from me – a 14-year-old girl. If I can see what’s wrong with the world, surely you can too?

I so desperately want to make a change to children living in poverty but at the moment, because of my age, I don’t have the power to. However, all you adults reading this can.

I know when I’m old enough I’m going to do my bit to help – please consider helping a child in poverty, you could change their lives for ever.

Swindon Advertiser: Blob By Hannah-Leigh Bain, 14