Getting to Know Your International Contacts
Hello class, it has been a real struggle trying to
communicate with early childhood professionals from different countries. I have
sent out numerous e-mails and have only received one response back, and that
one response was I have to admit a disappointment. I clicked on the link to
hear the podcast and it went to an error page. When I went to the actual
website for world forum foundation I didn’t see a link for the radio station
even when I searched the website for the radio station I came up with nothing.
This really bothered me because I was looking forward to hearing the podcast.
In lieu of this I went to the website http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/the-cambodian-child-who-stole-my-heart/.
It was about CEO Susan Goodell who
went on a recent trip to Asia to visit with GFC grassroots partners and the
children they help. She took to a young boy whose mother sent him to take care
of his ill grandmother. But in light of that his mother couldn’t afford to take
care of him so he was living. He was so malnourished that even though he was
eleven he had the appearance of a six year old. However I am grateful that
there are organizations like this that reach out and help these children, so
that they not only have a chance at getting an education but have a chance at
life period.
The story of Arun inspired me to want to research
child poverty in the Philippines for the second part of our assignment. In a country where poverty is prevalent,
Filipino children are vulnerable to issues such as mortality, health,
education, violence and abuse, and forced labor. Under a host of environmental
issues bigger than they are, children can be adversely affected by poverty in
many ways (http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_66867.html).
A survey conducted in 2005 revealed that almost a quarter of Filipino children
(24.6% of the population) 0–5 years old are underweight. Data showed that six
regions had an increase in the number of underweight children from 2003 to 2006
(Table I.2) (http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_66867.html).
A lot of the heads of households do agricultural work like fishing or forestry
work, which really doesn’t bring a lot of money into the house hold to take
care of families. Which makes sense because of course the work would kind of
limited or rather completive with everyone doing the same type of work. What is
more saddening is that most children will probably grow up to be poor adults. In
or to help solve the problem of poverty in the Philippines an effective
population management program to stop the vicious cycle of poverty and underdevelopment
is being put in place. It is supposed to stabilize macroeconomic fundamentals
to strengthen the country’s economic performance in order to reduce the
incidence of poverty; building up data and giving due consideration to regional
disparities in aid of planning, and policy and program formulation; and,
allocating more financial and rational manpower resources for health, education
and child protection; among others (http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_66867.html).
I hope that one day child poverty is no longer an issue over the whole world. Until
the I hope solutions to help the problem keep arriving.
References
(Poverty's victim: Children born in an impoverish society suffers more ...450 x 302 · jpegrifestuff.blogspot.com)
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