After reviewing the struggles countries face in various parts of the world I choose to explore more about Eastern and Southern Africa, focusing my attention on “Malawi”. Malawi, currently suffers from serious condition due to the deadly combination of chronic poverty, bad weather conditions, bad harvest, a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and an outbreak of cholera.
About 40 percent of the population which is a total of 4,916,000 people are in need of food assistance, due to this 48 % of children under five years of age in Malawi are stunted and 22 % are underweight or malnourished. Despite the effort to reduce these percentiles, they duplicate each year affecting directly children under five years of age.
The humanitarian situation is particularly serious for the rural population. More than 65 per cent of Malawi's population lives below the poverty line. Due to the food crisis these families suffer, cholera is another health hazard that the Malawi population phase. The country also has an extremely high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, which affects an estimated 16,4 per cent of people aged 15 to 49 and accounts for some 70 per cent of hospital deaths. Some 400,000 children under 15 have been left orphans due to the death of their parents from this illness.
The fact that children are suffering from so many factors, such as malnutrition, poverty, sickness and the trauma of losing many of their family members due to these factors make a tremendous impact on the child overall development. Their ability to grow healty, learn and succeed in life slowly fades away as they continue suffering from these deathly factors.
As a parents and professional in the field of education I fell the responsibility to support organizations such as UNICEF, which does a remarkable job all around the world to alleviate many of the challenges that children and the families are suffering. It is also important that we model and encourage are new generations to also see the struggles other people are facing all around the world and give a helping hand. I we would all give a little of our time, effort and support to others less fortunate then us, this world would be a different place.
Isabel You know here in America we are blessed with food and other things. When you stop to think about other countries, it is heartbreaking what children have to go through. Thanks for the information.
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