According to UNICEF, the world’s premier children’s organization, part of the United Nations:
- 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation
- 1 billion children are deprived of one or more services essential to survival and development
- 148 million under 5s in developing regions are underweight for their age
- 101 million children are not attending primary school, with more girls than boys missing out
- 22 million infants are not protected from diseases by routine immunization
- 4 million newborns worldwide are dying in the first month of life
- 2 million children under 15 are living with HIV
- >500,000 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy and
childbirth
So how are these numbers not important? Yes, it may be happening across the world from us, but it is on our world. Unfortunately, it seems that the world still does not notice. It might be reasonable to expect that death and tragedy on this scale should be prime time headlines news. Yet, these issues only surface when there are global meetings or concerts to fundraise, or commercials on TV.
NOW and ALWAYS this should be important.
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I am having a bit of trouble trying to figure out what it is you are looking into. Is it the issue of child malnutrition in third world countries? I however understand your point about doing something about the ways of life in other countries, especially in inhumane situations. It is true, that America only looks at these sort of issues at “convenient” times. Good luck with your research!
These are very sad and horrifying facts, but I’m also wondering what is your focus and if you have narrowed your topic down. I think there is a lot here that you can look into and that needs to be addressed. Perhaps take just “1 billion children are deprived of one or more services essential to survival and development” and expand on that. Good luck! I think you can go far on this topic and have a lot of information to work on.