My dear classmates I am sorry to report that Shay's internet has been spotty this week [ I guess that happens in Africa ;) ] So what I did was I googled Mozambique. One of the links that popped up was UNICEFF and Mozambique's child survival.
Obviously this has ties to the economics of the country. What I really took away from this information was even though it's not a 1st world country there have been strides in helping children survive. It says that the rate of child survival has pretty much been cut in half over the past 20 years. This speaks to those in power knowing how important it is to put money into future generations. UNICEFF is such a wonderful organization.
One of the main threats to children living is malaria, a natural disease. It is awful that something that, in the states, is so rare is regularly killing children. Then I thought about the threats to child survival here in the states and all I could think of were man made things, guns, poor education, etc. All the things we have discussed in the past few weeks are things humans can control. Which leads me to ask....which is worse?
http://www.unicef.org/mozambique/child_survival_2933.html
Koni, one of my contacts was having internet troubles as well.
ReplyDeleteYou ask a good question and I don't even know what the answer should be. There honestly doesn't seem to be control over either. Most diseases we can treat but can't stop them from attacking us and with guns and poor education well there doesn't seem to be enough concern to get these under control. Hopefully we will be able to make changes in education as we learn more about what and how we can. Good Post!
So hard to imagine that a barrier that is seemingly non existent is what causes early childhood issues, even death, in other countries. It is beyond our western version of hurdles..
ReplyDeleteWow...sounds like a great pod cast. I watched a podcast about children with HIV and how they are discriminated and I felt the same way. Eve tho there are children across the world where this ia normal here in the U.S. there are many cases of children with HIV who are also discriminated against, but it's not considered normal.
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