For this week’s blog I chose Eastern & Southern Africa.
I chose this area, because of the issues and concerns that the region is going through with HIV and AIDS. Globally there are 34% of people with HIV that live in Southern Africa. There are also over 30% of deaths among children under the age of 5 that occur in the first month of life- two biggest killers are pneumonia and diarrheal diseases. Other main causes are Malaria, injuries, and HIV/AIS and Measles.
I also learned from this that basic education and gender equality between 2000 and 2006/8 the number of children in primary school rose dramatically from 45 to 70 million. The office net enrollment is 88% for boys and 87% for girls. In 2008, around 8.8 million children in primary school age were excluded from enjoying their right to a basic education. For secondary education, rates are lower regional average are 25% and 33% for boys and girls and an even smaller proportion actually attends school was 24% boys and 22% girls.
On Feb, 2, 2012in South Africa, UNICEF call attention to international and national legislation protecting children from all forms of violence, abuse and maltreatment. January 16, 2012, Zambia: Netherlands provided the United States $10 million dollars for UNICEF education program.
When young children are subjects of the above mentioned issues, he or she cannot grow properly and they lack the proper nutrition that will help to keep them at the same pace as other children their very same age. Every child rather boy or girl should be given the same opportunity as the next child, in all reality there may be some girls that feel like boys are given more opportunities and the girls may drop out of school or just not go.
As an early childhood professionals, I would seek to administer to all children fairly and equally. I want to provide an ant-bias environment so that all children regardless of race, sex, religion or culture, be given the same opportunities to grow and develop into productive citizens. I have learned that even though we may think that the world we live in is so bad, there is many others that are worse off and need more help than we do.
Reference:http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html
Lori,
ReplyDeleteWow, so many preventable deaths! It is truly tragic that children are dying from things that can so easily be avoided. You summed it up well that even though we may think we have things bad, many are far worse off!!