International Contacts - Poverty in Chldren
My International contact has not respond to any of my emails. So I listen to a podcast for this assignment. I enjoyed the podcast by Reid Cramer. The podcast was called A Plan of Action to Address Child Poverty. Mr. Cramer states that children that are born up in poverty often grow up in poverty. 20% of children are living in poverty. Recovery Act program help many families by providing food stamps and unemployment benefits.
The county that I read about is Swaziland. In Swaziland children in rural areas have a water deprivations. Water deprivation affect the sanitation condition of the home life on the child which leads to sickness. In Swaziland female health is a less deprived than their male counter part. Deprivation consist of the lack of clean water, healthcare, education and sanitation areas.
My insights that I learned is how other countries are going through the same things that we are going though in the United States. The United States have many organizations that are helping these countries try to improve their conditions.
posted by Unknown @ 8:11 PM
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It's hard to deal with the fact of knowing that some of our children are brought into poverty and it's beyond their control. Knowing that in some places these children turn into adults living into poverty is even more saddening. We have to step in as educators and show them how to be successful and become great providers for themselves and their families. Giving them the tools and the encouragement is the key.
Looking abroad at other countries issues, sometimes, make our issues appear not too be as bad as theirs. The country I focused on was opposite of Swaziland which suffers from water deprivation. Bangladesh suffers from excessive flooding. But their courageousness and solutions are what made me take a closer look. Poverty, apparently, is everywhere. How it is dealt with and how to prevent it, is the solutions to ending it.
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