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in our mentor meetings the teacher told us we had some qusitons that don,t make sesne she told us we were doing very good

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in our mentor meetings the teacher told us we had some qusitons that don,t make sesne she told us we were doing very good

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Achivement:that people know in a fun way what is happenning with poor children in Africa so they help so children in Africa do not suffer more.
Materials: cardboard, goma eva red, lights white for the decoration, old socks eye balls.

We are going to present in our PYP exibition and before to the little kids 4 3 2 1 grade.

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The technology in Africa like - laptops , tablets , phones , headphoes , smart boards the people in Africa never heard about this . But in Spain all this technology childrens can have in the schools or on the work . So let´s help them to have just a little bit of this !!! And if we will help ti them , in the schools they can have a laptops , headphones and for work it will be more easyer !!!

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Why do children in Africa do not have that many reasources.

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Why do children in Africa do not have that many reasources.

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Children in Africa don`t have that many resources because the goverment does not    have that much money to give them public schools ect

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic. Read the facts & figures.

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Hay un dicho que dice´´ Regala un pescado a un hombre y le darás alimento para un día, enséñale a pescar y lo alimentarás para el resto de su vida”.

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The children being poor without health and education is the fault of teh goverment because if they ask them to pay the money and they do not have that much tey wont be able to have enough education that thye need.

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What will it take to end poverty in Africa?

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My colleague Jim Kim has launched a social media campaign on what it will take to end global poverty (please send your solutions via twitter to #ittakes.) I was reminded of a blog post I did about four years ago entitled "Ending poverty in Africa and elsewhere". My answer then and ...

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Food is not a luxury , so no child should go to bed hungry. We don't just feed hungry youngsters , also we help them reach their goals. We are inspired to do more when we see them smiling . We really want that children in Africa can have more food , clean water , clothes , vehicle , good schools. We will do all , to help them !!!

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Foundation for Starving Children in Africa – Save a soul today

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Help them, and destinies will be saved Our support to street children give them hope FFSCIA is dedicated to providing nutritional foods, educational, and welfare materials to children from low-income families. We are passionate about this topic because we believe that providing opportunity to a chil…

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Los inmigrantes  son personas que viajan desde su pais de origen hasta otro pais. En África el mayor problema es la pobreza. 114.000 de persona han inmigrado a italia y 3000 de ellas an muerto en el intento.

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Los inmigrantes  son personas que viajan desde su pais de origen hasta otro pais. En África el mayor problema es la pobreza. 114.000 de persona han inmigrado a italia y 3000 de ellas an muerto en el intento.

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Most inmigrants are from Africa, and being an inmigrant feels like the foreigner who enters Spain as a tourist or to seek employment with the corresponding visa will be in a situation of stay. This situation allows you to stay in Spain for a maximum of three months per semester and you can leave and enter within the same period from the first entry into Spanish territory. Upon reaching the maximum time allowed, that is, after 90 days, you must leave the country or apply for an extension of stay or a residence permit.

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Se podrá comprobar la situación de los extranjeros en España mediante la documentación que acrediten, puede ser con la presentación del pasaporte o documento de viaje, visado o tarjeta de identidad de extranjero. ¿En qué situaciones puedo quedarme a vivir en España?
Una vez que se ha ingresado en territorio español, existen varias situaciones en que puede encontrarse viviendo legalmente en España:

Situación de estancia: El extranjero que ingresa en España como turista o a buscar empleo con el correspondiente visado estará en situación de estancia. Esta situación le permite quedarse en España por un máximo de tres meses por semestre y podrá salir y entrar dentro del mismo plazo a partir de la primera entrada en territorio español. Al llegar al máximo de tiempo permitido, es decir cumplidos los 90 días deberá abandonar el país o solicitaruna prorroga de estancia o un permiso de residencia.

Prorroga de estancia: Si usted ha entrado en España como turistas sin intención de trabajar o residir, (menos en el caso de tener una visa para buscar empleo y se encuentre en el periodo de estancia), podrá solicitar una prorroga de estancia por un máximo de 90 días. Si ha ingresado como turista sin visa, la prorroga de 3 meses se la darán en casos excepcionales, como: causas familiares o sanitarias, etc. Y si ingreso con visa podrá prorrogar por el periodo de estancia que figure en el visado. En ningún caso podrá ser mayor a 90 días corridos.

Para solicitar esta prórroga deberá cumplimentar el modelo de solicitud oficial determinados por laSecretaria de Estado de Inmigración y Emigración.

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Situaciones de los inmigrantes en España

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Se podrá comprobar la situación de los extranjeros en España mediante la documentación que acrediten, puede ser con la presentación del pasaporte o documento de viaje, visado o tarjeta de identidad de extranjero. ¿En qué situaciones puedo quedarme a vivir en España?

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This are the biggest problems in Africa:

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This are the biggest problems in Africa:

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Political instability and terrorism, among others, mark the current situation in most West African countries, in addition to other problems such as piracy and drug trafficking.

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Many people in Africa are poor with hunger or with bad health. they don´t have the right to go to school children of 5 to 17 years old have to work instead of going to school and learn and have fun with their friends. Also

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Some westerners are often surprised when they visit Africa for the first time and see happy faces all around them. They are often surprised why because the Africa they see and hear about in the news is quite different from the Africa they find when they come to visit the continent. Some expect nothing but pain and misery just like the Africa they see on CNN, BBC and the rest. Some expect nothing but poor starving children lying on the streets half-dead with flies all over their miserable tiny little faces. Some westerners expect nothing but teary faces of poor grandparents praying to death to come take them. Some westerners expect nothing but the worst among the worst in Africa why because the western media where they learn from, always paint Africa a "death hole" full of nothing but poverty, hunger, and deaths which is not true at all.

Is there poverty in Africa? The answer is yes there is poverty in Africa. However, not everybody in Africa is poor. Is there hunger in Africa? The answer once again is yes there is hunger in Africa but once again, not everybody in Africa is starving to death as some people especially westerners think. When it comes to poverty and hunger, the western world always paints Africa "hell in a cell" with no way out. The western world always paints the picture as if everybody in Africa is starving to death. The western world always paints the picture as if all the children in Africa have swollen bellies with flies all over their faces. The western world often forgets the fact that Africa is home to some of the world's happiest people. The western world often judge Africa based on western standards forgetting the fact that Africa is a different continent with its own sets of dos and donts.

Africa is poor and there is no doubt Africa is poor but the question is, WHY IS AFRICA POOR? It may surprise you to know that Africa is not the poorest continent on earth as some people generally put it. In fact, Asia is far poorer than Africa. The Indian sub-continent alone contains more poor people than the entire continent of Africa combined. According to recent statistics, Asia contains about 60-65% of the world's poor population. Africa on the other hand contains just about 20% of the total population of poor people in the world today. According to recent statistics, Asia is not just poorer than Africa in terms of numbers but also worse than Africa in the intensity of poverty. In other words, Asia is far poorer than Africa not just in number but also in levels (how extremely poor the poor people are) of poverty. The poor people in Asia live under worse conditions than the poor people in Africa but that is not to say Africa is far better off why because there is no 'good' poverty and there is no 'better' hunger. Poverty kills and hunger kills and the only way out is having nothing to do with poverty and hunger.

It may surprise you to know but to give you a rough idea, about 20% of people in highest-income countries consume about 86% of the world's resources while the bottom 20% consume just around 1.3%. Almost one person in five (about 1.2 billion men, women and children) are currently living in a situation of extreme poverty and hunger, surviving on less than $1 a day. Not just that, about half the people in the world today are trying very hard to manage below the poverty level of just $2 a day.

When it comes to Africa, statistics are often a "tragedy" in the sense that, statistical figures reveal almost nothing at all about the reality of the situation. Westerners often fail miserably when it comes to evaluating Africa as a continent why because they (westerners) often judge Africa based on their (western) standards which is quite wrong why because Africa is a different continent with own standards.

The UN, the IMF, the World Bank, etc. often evaluate countries in Africa and Africa as a whole based on GDP figures alone which is very wrong taking all things else into consideration. GDP figures may reveal a lot about western countries but not Africa because once again, Africa is a different continent with different standards.

Ghana was often considered one of the poorest countries in the world not that Ghana was that poor. Ghana was considered extremely poor by westerners and the reason was that, Ghana had a low GDP. Ghana had a low GDP figure not because Ghana was that poor. The painfull truth is that, the UN and co were using a very "flawed" system in evaluating Ghana. Ghana just like several other African countries today was still using the extremely "flawed" 1960s UN system of evaluation which reduced Ghana's GDP by about 62%. Ghana decided to upgrade its UN system of evaluation to the 1993 system just a few years ago and it was then that western and local economists discovered the great error. It was discovered that Ghana's actual GDP figure was 62% higher than previously thought. Ghana is now a middle income country. When it comes to Africa, the proximate causes of the problem with statistics are: weak capacity in countries to collect, manage and disseminate data; inadequate funding; diffuse responsibilities; and fragmentation, with many diffuse data collection efforts. So in the end, statistics often reveal not the reality but the "official truth" which is nothing but lies.

Another major problem with the western way of evaluating Africa is that, statistics are often political in Africa. In other words, statistical figures often glorify some corrupt governments in power and not the reality of the situation. Here is an example. According to the World Bank and the IMF, Equatorial Guinea has a higher GDP income than any other country in Africa. However, as we all know, Equatorial Guinea remains one of the poorest countries in Africa today with about 70% of its population living in extreme poverty and hunger. The president of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Guema Mbasogo is one of the worst leaders in the world today. He is a dictator and has been in office since 1979 using deception and brutal force as the main tools in oppressing the poor and the weak. He and his extremely spoilt and corrupt Son Teodorin continue to enjoy while their poor but innocent countrymen continue to die in extreme poverty and hunger.

Once again, I am not saying Africa is not poor. Africa is poor and there is no doubt about it. All I am trying to say is that, Africa is not that poor as the western media often portray the continent to be. Africa is not one country as some westerners think. Africa is a continent of about 56 different countries. Some countries are poorer than others and it doesn't make much sense to generalize the entire continent based on a selected few. Countries like Somalia, Burkina Faso, Liberia, etc. are extremely poor. However, judging the entire continent of 56 countries based on the conditions of the poorest 10 is something very unfair. Unfortunately, this is how western economists evaluate Africa as a continent.

Once again, Africa is poor and there is no doubt about it. However, the question remains, why is Africa poor? Africa is poor because we Africans are not ready to get out of poverty. Our leaders are extremely corrupt and unreliable yet we continue to bow down to them. We have the resources and all it takes to be the richest continent on earth yet millions continue to die in extreme poverty and hunger. The answer to our problem is quite simple. No outsider can come fix Africa for us. Unless we take the blames and start thinking for ourselves, we shall forever remain in poverty. Some people especially westerners often blame population explosion as the root cause of poverty in Africa forgetting the fact that Africa is the second largest continent in the world but with a population of just a little over 1 billion people. Population explosion isn't a "major" reason why Africa remains poor. The major reason here is poor leadership and corruption. Why should we allow some greedy bastards to enjoy why we continue to suffer? We work and sweat all day and night yet continue to die in extreme poverty and hunger why because we have given those greedy leaders the chance to manipulate our lives like robots. It is time we wake up and start thinking.

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Some westerners are often surprised when they visit Africa for the first time and see happy faces all around them. They are often surprised why because the Africa they see and hear about in the news is quite different from the Africa they find when they come to visit the continent.

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¿Por qué hay que dejar de enviar ayuda a África?

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Japón a donado seis ambulancias a  sudan y ha salvado muchas vidas

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Japón a donado seis ambulancias a  sudan y ha salvado muchas vidas

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They can not buy the medicines to be healthy. and they do not have money to be in a safe place with higine. the water in Africa is not that clean so they invections in thier body so they can have a illness in a very bad way. and they have to work in a very bad weather very sunny and hot so they get tired very fast.

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The Water Crisis: Poverty and Water Scarcity in Africa | The Water Project

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Did you know that poverty in Africa is often caused by a lack of access to clean water? Learn more about how access to safe water can help end poverty & hunger.

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Childrens in Africa need to work because if not the family cannot pay food or even the house!!! This is why lot's of childrens need to work instead of playing like the other kids do.

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Children in Africa don´t have so many rights respected 

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Children in Africa don´t have so many rights respected 

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They don´t have so many rights respected because they have to work from 5 to 17 years all the day so they can have all body dirty , they can not have shower every day because in Africa are problems with the water . The water in Africa is not very clean so children can have infections .

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Do you want to travel? Do you want to help kids in Africa? Do you enjoy exciting challenges? Achieve these goals and more by volunteering in Africa with children. You can expect to:

Teach basic English

Teach early childhood development through games, activities, and lessons

Support local teachers in busy classrooms

Monitor children's development using our Global Impact Database

Create lesson plans and resources that can be used by future volunteers and local staff

Assist with basic renovations like painting classrooms and murals

Encourage children to practice better hygiene during outreaches and presentations, like washing hands and brushing teeth properly

We'll teach you everything you need to know about early childhood development. We also run regular workshops with all of our Childcare and Teaching volunteers. At these sessions, you can get advice and ideas to support your work.

If you're interested in helping children in Africa, we recommend staying longer to make a greater impact. However, we do offer one week volunteer programs, if you have a shorter available time frame. Read our blog about short-term volunteering and the impact you can make during your trip.

You don't need previous experience to help children in Africa. You're there to support local staff and you'll work alongside them. There is a high student-teacher ratio in many of the placements we work. As an extra pair of hands, ears, and eyes, you'll give teachers and caregivers the extra support they need.

At my project, I helped primarily in the classroom and sometimes in the occupational therapy room. During this experience, I always felt as though I was making a difference and lending a helping hand. Sometimes making an impact was as easy as telling the children about America, showing them pictures of places I've traveled to, or simply conversing with them so they could practice their English. - Casie S, Childcare in Kenya

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Do you want to travel? Do you want to help kids in Africa? Do you enjoy exciting challenges? Achieve these goals and more by volunteering in Africa with children.

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Although aspects of education in Africa have improved, including more children being knowledgeable about HIV and AIDS, many obstacles remain. Below are ten facts about education in Africa to illustrate the ongoing struggle. Africa has the highest rates of educational exclusion in the world.

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A child faces the bad thing of being poor because of his family or the goverment or the country.

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Children and Poverty
Each day, more than 30,000 children die of poverty-related causes. Today, poverty kills one child every 3 seconds. Children are the primary victims of poverty, and poverty is the principal cause of violations pertaining to Children's Rights.
Definition of Child Poverty

A general definition of poverty is "a state of existence in which one lacks many of life's basic necessities." The poor person is someone "who lacks what he needs"; and a poor child is "a very young boy or girl who lacks much of what is needed to survive."

From an economic perspective, poverty can be defined in two ways:

absolute poverty: revenues are insufficient to support the individual's physical needs;

relative poverty: the individual's revenues are inferior to those possessed by other members of the community.

It is important to note that the economic definition of poverty is invariably tied to the question of monetary wealth.

However, poverty cannot be defined simply in terms of its material dimension; one must also take into account a person's "ability to use the resources that he or she possesses." (1)

Beyond the monetary dimension, poverty has an effect on other fundamental rights. The dignity and self-worth of individuals are affected. Poverty impedes the exercise of individual liberties; it threatens the security of one's existence (absence of revenue and of access to housing, medical care and justice) and undermines personal development across the board (intellectual, cultural, familial and social). (2)

With regard to children, the definition of poverty should not be limited to a consideration of insufficient financial resources. In effect, children who face poverty are also deprived of their fundamental rights and of future prospects.

Poverty hampers a child's ability to survive; it impedes all aspects of his or her development (physical, mental, emotional, cultural, social, familial, spiritual, etc.).

The impact of poverty is so great that one can say without hesitation that poverty is the principal source of children's rights violations.

Causes of Child Poverty

Children who are poor are often born into poverty. "Poverty engenders poverty and creates a vicious circle." (3) A child lives in poverty because his family and/or his country is facing poverty.

Historically, all nations have at one time or another confronted the question of misery and poverty. Today, extreme poverty affects more than a billion human beings throughout the world.

Poverty is on the decline, but the efforts to combat it remain insufficient. However, it is not a question of an unrealistic dream. Solutions exist. What is lacking is real political will on part of the world at large.

Consequences of Poverty on Children

The consequences of poverty on children are devastating. Today, poverty kills one child every three seconds.

Poverty deprives children of their fundamental right to life. In addition, it deprives them of educational opportunities and prevents them from gaining access to medical care, clean water, food, shelter, security and protection, information, etc.

Poverty thus constitutes a veritable threat to childhood and violates children's rights (as defined by the International Convention of Children's Rights) as a whole.

How to End Child Poverty

Respecting commitments made by the States to implement fundamental rights as enunciated by the International Convention of Children's Rights would go a long way toward defeating poverty.

Respecting commitments made by the States to implement fundamental rights as enunciated by the International Convention of Children's Rights would go a long way toward defeating poverty.

"No society can really defeat poverty without doing everything it can, in a vigorous and long-term manner, to ensure that all of its members have a right to and are able to receive basic medical care, nutritious food and a decent education." (4)

In order to respect Children's Rights, it is imperative that extreme poverty be defeated worldwide.
You too can get involved!

Written by : Olivier Soret
Review by : Marie-Noëlle Lavallée

Translated by : James England
Review by : Faiz Kermani

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Poor Children Children and Poverty Each day, more than 30,000 children die of poverty-related causes. Today, poverty kills one child every 3 seconds. Children are the primary victims of poverty, and poverty is the principal cause of violations pertaining to Children's Rights. Definition of Child Poverty A general definition of poverty is "a state of ...

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DW News

According to the World Bank, South Africa is the world's most unequal society. 25 years after the end of Apartheid, poverty is widespread among the country's black majority. In Cape Town, the contrasts are particularly stark.

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The divide between rich and poor in South Africa | DW | 23.08.2019

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DW News According to the World Bank, South Africa is the world's most unequal society. 25 years after the end of Apartheid, poverty is widespread among the country's black majority. In Cape Town, the contrasts are particularly stark.

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African trees you probably will imagine them like destroyed or something like that, but no, like an example the madagascar tree is really big and beutiful, and yes you can life on an African tree.

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Because they can not have health because thy do not have enough money to go to the hospital.

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A woman cleaning drainage ditches in Kenya to discourage mosquito breeding and thus prevent malaria.

Death occurrence in the African continent is mainly due to diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and respiratory infections. The number of lives claimed by illnesses over the last couple of years has been over a million deaths annually. As a result, average life expectancy for African men is 58 years while for women is 61 years. These average life expectancy figures are the lowest compared to other continents. The leading causes of death in Africa has been accelerated by numerous factors spanning the social, economic and political aspects. Most Africans have been exposed to vulnerable environmental conditions in periods of political instability, resulting in loss of lives.

With better health care and treatment for leading causes of deaths such as HIV/AIDS, the life expectancy has increased in many populations in recent years. However, the high number of deaths has continued to affect the economic and social life of many people. High poverty level has made it difficult to access quality medication and accelerated malnutrition.

HIV/AIDS

More than 1.1 million people were estimated to have died from HIV/AIDS in 2012. This figure includes all AIDS-related illnesses and accounts for about 11.5% of all deaths caused by diseases and infection. According to WHO, the number of deaths had significantly reduced since 2001 by about 22%. Even then, this still represents a huge share of the total number of deaths.

Respiratory Infections

Lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia, influenza and bronchitis were a leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa especially among children under the age of five. These infectious diseases contributed to at least a million deaths in 2012. Though tuberculosis is among the lower respiratory tract infections, it is categorized separately in the WHO cause of death statistics. It accounted for 2.4% of deaths (230,000 deaths) in sub-Saharan Africa in 2012.

Diarrhea

About 603,000 people died from diarrhea in 2012, accounting for 6.7% of total deaths. Diarrheal diseases are caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites which lead to dehydration. Most of these diseases are as a result of drinking unsafe water and inadequate sanitation. Children under the age of five are worst affected and likely to die from diarrhea.

Malaria

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitos, the insect vectors of the malarial parasite Plasmodium. It is one of the leading causes of death in Africa, with an estimated 554,000 deaths in 2012. Children under five years of age are highly susceptible to the disease with over 41% of children deaths attributed to malaria alone. Of all the global deaths from malaria, 92% of them were found in Africa. One of the reasons for the high malaria prevalence is because of the tropical climate which provides a good habitat for the breeding of mosquito. Additionally, preventive measures and systems are inadequate to deal with emerging malaria cases.

In Conclusion

Other leading causes of death in Africa include stroke, pre-term birth complications, trauma, heart disease, malnutrition, and meningitis.

Lack of adequate health facilities and sanitation has catapulted the figures in previous years. Also, a majority of the Africans are unable to afford quality health care services leaving them vulnerable to infections and diseases.

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Death (in thousands), 2012

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2. Society

3. Leading Causes Of Death In Africa

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Death occurrence in the African continent is mainly due to diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and respiratory infections. The number of lives claimed by illnesses over the last couple of years has been over a million deaths annually. As a result, average life expectancy for African men is 58 years while for women is 61 years.

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Apadrinar un niño en África | Children International | SPrograma de apadrinamiento para niños de África

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Zambia tiene una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo -las Cataratas Victoria- donde el agua cae más de 105 metros y crea una inmensa neblina originalmente denominada por la gente indígena "humo que truena".

A pesar de su belleza natural, Zambia es un país afectado por un gran grado de pobreza. Afortunadamente, está presentando indicios de desarrollo y esperanza.
Descubra cómo trabajamos para dar esperanza hasta a los niños más necesitados.

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Apadrinar un niño en África | Children International | SPrograma de apadrinamiento para niños de África

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Zambia tiene una de las Siete Maravillas del Mundo -las Cataratas Victoria- donde el agua cae más de 105 metros y crea una inmensa neblina originalmente denominada por la gente indígena "humo que truena". A pesar de su belleza natural, Zambia es un país afectado por un gran grado de pobreza.

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Most scientifics say that Africa now a days it's all destroyed but that in the future it could save lifes.

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For a lot of children in Africa live very far from their schools but they can not move because they do not have enough money to move.

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What type of homes did Africans live in? African houses are mayority  cylindrical, or spheres, with only one room and really small.

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Education in Africa is much worst than normal school education, and you need to be lucky to go to a school, because most people of Africa don't go to school!!

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Poverty is a Lack of Hope

Poor people often lack hope for the future because they live in a lie. The lie of poverty, that is reinforced day-in and day-out is, "You don't matter. You're worthless."

Whether in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda or Zambia, the poor in the world's poorest countries live in hopelessness...every day, in multiple ways.

Imagine not being able to provide enough food for your children or pay for a hospital visit when a child is sick or injured. Imagine the guilt, grief, and despair.

The poor are helpless in the face of war and natural disasters. When natural disasters and conflict occur, the poor suffer the most. They are unprotected, uncared for, and unnoticed.

Overcrowded urban areas where millions of the poor live in slum conditions increase the risk of disease and increase the death toll when conflict and war erupt or an environmental disaster hits.

Poverty often causes the poor to put pressure on their environment, and in turn the environment contributes to the suffering the poor endure.

Damage to the natural environment in which the poor live increases the impact floods and other natural disasters have. But "natural disasters" are as much a result of poor government, bad infrastructure, population density, rampant population growth and unequal living conditions as anything else. Extreme poverty helps create the disaster.

Limited access to sanitation and clean water lead to poor hygiene practices and more disease, which hinder the ability of the poor to work or attend school. And when someone more powerful takes advantage of them, from withholding wages or payments to trafficking a child, the poor are unable to pursue justice, for they lack the money and connections to do so.

Although girls are more likely to be victims of sexual abuse and sex trafficking, exploitation does not discriminate based on gender. All of the world's poor are targets.

Despite this harsh reality, it's the feeling that you don't matter, like your life will never get better, that is the most crushing and demoralizing aspect of poverty. It's also why poverty reduction efforts and programs to lower the poverty rate must be holistic, reaching into every aspect of the human experience.

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Poor people often lack hope for the future because they live in a lie. The lie of poverty, that is reinforced day-in and day-out is, "You don't matter. You're worthless." Whether in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda or Zambia, the poor in the world's poorest countries live in hopelessness...every day, in multiple ways.

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The main causes of poor children it is because they have poor parents with out a job. so the parents can not buy the food good school so they can not have a good education.

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It is estimated that child poverty affects about 50% of the world's children, or approximately 1.1 billion children worldwide live in poverty.

In this article we examine what child poverty means, its causes and effects, how it is measured, and what steps can be taken by charities, governments and individuals to help alleviate child poverty all over the world.

What is Child Poverty?

Child poverty can be defined as the condition of children from poor families (and often orphans) growing up with scarce or non-existent resources.

There are many variable factors which define what level of income would be described as 'poor', depending on the economic development, GDP and average per-capita income of the respective country.

There are also different levels of resources which would be described as abundant or scarce.

For example, in a developed country having to collect water from a communal standpipe may be considered to be living in a state of poverty or having a lack of resources - but this may not necessarily be the case in developing countries.

If there is a reliable communal source of clean water, this might not be considered to be living in poverty even though the family may not have running water in their house.

Another variable is the definition of the word 'child'.

This could just mean people under the age of 18 - but we also have to consider other social factors such as gender, social class, work, marriage and school which all work to define who is considered as a child within different societies.

What are the Causes of Child Poverty?

Poor and unemployed parents

Children living in poverty are very often born to parents living in poverty, creating a cycle.

There are complex reasons why parents living in poverty sometimes have large numbers of children. These include: high child mortality rates, lack of education about contraception, patriarchal value systems, forced marriage, religious beliefs, and to support the wider family.

Lack of education

When children are born to poor parents, they have less access to schooling and education. Especially in agricultural communities, they often end up helping the family with agricultural work, thus entering a vicious circle where they can never develop their educational skills to give them possibilities for greater earnings in the future.

Lack of social services

Many developing countries do not have well-established social support services for poor children and their families. They are forced to rely on themselves, their extended families and their communities for any economic support they might receive.

This can add to the problem of child labour, where children and forced into work instead of receiving an education.

Disability

Disabled people in poor communities in developing countries could be described as being the 'poorest of the poor', having to deal with physical disabilities on top of difficult economic circumstances. So disabled children can really have the hardest lives of all.

Discrimination

If children and their families have the additional complication of being discriminated against for their gender, religion, ethnicity, social class or political allegiance, this is another factor that can increase the cycle of poverty.

What are the Effects of Child Poverty?

The most common direct effects of child poverty are:

Poor physical health

Mental health problems

Low sense of well-being

Underachieving at school

Poor employment prospects in adult life

Social deprivation and stigma

Lack of physical safety & security

Child Poverty Facts and Statistics

More than 50% of the world's poorest people are children.

About 75% of the world's poorest children live in Africa.

50% of children in sub-Saharan Africa, and 20% of children in developing countries live in extreme poverty

An estimated 20% of children in developed countries also live in poverty. Although the factors and measurements are different from those of developing countries, this shows that child poverty affects children worldwide and is a global problem.

Just 1 in 3 children are cared for by Social Protection programs

It's not all bad news.

Child poverty has been shown to be gradually declining. The World Bank and UNICEF are campaigning for governments to support the fight against child poverty by:

Measuring & monitoring child poverty per country

Increasing & supporting social protection programs

Investing in resources and infrastructure that benefit children living in poverty.

Encouraging local and national governments to create policies that benefit the poorest children.

How is child poverty measured?

Due to the differences in income, development and access to resources in different countries, it can be difficult to set an absolute metric in order to label a child or adult as living in 'poverty'.

One way to quantify child poverty is to set an absolute monetary income below which a person is considered to be living in poverty.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund use the simple income amount of US$1 per day to measure extreme poverty in developing countries. However, we should be aware that many families earning more than this amount would still be considered to be living in poverty.

Many developed countries use a relative metric to determine poverty, for example families earning less than 50% of the average income in that country.

This does not necessarily determine that a child or family is lacking in any specific resources - but it can be a good indicator of economic inequality in a society.

Another way to measure poverty is to establish the number of children, adults or families lacking specific resources such as:

Adequate nutrition

Clean drinking water

Sanitation facilities

Healthcare facilities

Adequate and safe shelter

Education

In April 2013 the World Bank set a goal to try to end extreme poverty within the next generation. Their measurable target is that no more than 3 percent of the world's population should be living on $1.90 a day or less by the year 2030.

How can we help solve Child Poverty?

Child poverty needs to be tackled at multiple hierarchy levels - from individuals, local communities, families and schools up to local and national governments and global institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

As individuals we can feel powerless to make a difference against what seem like overwhelming statistics, but many charities run hugely successful programs which make real impacts on the lives of children living in poverty.

Education is perhaps the most effective strategy to tackle poverty and is integrally linked to human, community and national development.
When people have basic life and literacy skills, economies grow faster and poverty rates decline. Children who have the opportunity to learn are able to eventually earn more money and support their own families.

Feeding a young mind is literally true.
Hunger keeps children out of school and limits their ability to concentrate once there. Conversely, a school breakfast or lunch program will be an important incentive to attract children to attend school.

When you feed a child, you make it possible for him or her to learn.
And when you make it possible for her to learn, you make it possible for him/her to feed herself and her family for years to come.

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Why is Africa so poor as a continent? What makes it different from America, Europe, and parts of Asia? Learn about why Africa is poor.

First, we need to learn about something: the Destiny Instinct is the belief that innate and immutable characteristics determine the destinies of whole nations and cultures.

A common example of this is the idea that African culture is "backward," and will never change or progress. It reinforces the Generalization Instinct, the Gap Instinct, and the Negativity Instinct to make people in Level 4 countries believe that human existence is the same for all people in all countries at Levels 1, 2, and 3; that these cultures sit on the other side of an unbridgeable gap from us; and that life in these places is bad, getting worse, and will never improve.

Yet, once again, the data shows that this belief in inevitability is not just pessimistic: it is totally at odds with history and reality. No society has ever stood still. 100 years ago, the US had a manufacturing economy and featured widespread legal racial discrimination; today, it is overwhelmingly a service-based economy that can elect (and reelect) an African-American man to the Presidency.

Everywhere we look across the planet, traditional, patriarchal societies are undergoing massive social and economic change. These changes are reorienting their relationships with the rest of the world.

Will Africa Always Be Poor?

No individual is static and unchanging throughout the course of their life. The same is true for entire societies and cultures: values, norms, and material standards of living change, often much faster than we think.

It's true that Africa as a whole is poorer and lags behind other parts of the world (life expectancy is 65 there, 17 years less than Western Europe). But this obscures enormous differences both within and between African countries. All 50 nations of sub-Saharan Africa have expanded access to education, clean drinking water, electricity, and sanitation since decolonization. And they've done it at the same rate as European nations when they started developing during the Industrial Revolution.

In China, India, and South Korea, billions have escaped extreme poverty in just half a century, giving the lie to claims that they could never feed 4 billion people. 50 years ago, these countries (which are now manufacturing powerhouses and reliable trading partners) lagged behind where sub-Saharan Africa is today.

The Destiny Instinct can also lead to wrong assumptions about the continued dominance of Western Europe and North America. By 2100, the balance of power will have shifted, with 80 percent of the world's population living in Asia and Africa. Moreover, the IMF predicts that economic growth will only be 2 percent annually for today's Level 4 countries. This is a significant downgrade from earlier predictions, and much less than what Level 2 and 3 countries are achieving.

It's not just economics: Western cultural values have changed drastically over time as well. Liberal Sweden had quite conservative values and mores around sex, family, marriage, and contraception as recently as the 1960s.

We mentioned Iran above when we talked about the Generalization Instinct, but it's worth exploring again. Even this country, with a traditionalist, clerical Shi'ite government, has rapidly changed its social and cultural norms in a short period of time. Iranian women had an average of 6 babies as recently as 1984: that number was down to fewer than 3 by 1999. Perhaps symbolic of this change, Iran was also home to the world's largest condom factory during the 1990s!

Why Do We Think Africa is Poor?

Why do we believe that other cultures are inexorably bound to their fate and are incapable of change?

Evolutionary Inheritance

Our cave-dwelling ancestors strike again. Early humans lived in circumstances that were largely unchanging and relatively predictable. They wouldn't have travelled much outside the few square miles of their homestead or tribal territory.

In these circumstances, learning how things worked and then assuming that they would continue that way forever would have been a useful survival strategy (i.e., "plant the corn this way, in this place, at the time of year, and you'll have food to eat").

Sense of Superiority

We get a sense of superiority by claiming a progressive, triumphant destiny for our in-group (and a degenerative, failing one for others). These ideas may have served primitive humans well, but they are inadequate tools for describing today's world and meeting its challenges. If we think of Africa as poor today, we might feel a little better about our situation.

Problems Arising From Considering Africa as Poor

The Destiny Instinct leads us to some major (and destructive) consequences.

Ignorance of Change

We lose sight of just how much the world has changed. This leads us to stereotype and write off vast swaths of the human population as irredeemably impoverished, backward, and locked into patriarchal value systems. We should no longer think, "why is Africa so poor," but rather, "how is Africa going to become rich?"

Apathy

When we see countries and societies as being beyond hope or incapable of progress, we ignore their suffering. By this logic, it would simply be a waste of resources to alleviate suffering and deprivation. After all, if it's a product of a backward culture, what good would it do to invest in better infrastructure? As we know, this is not only false (cultures do change), but destructive: helping countries move out of Level 1 is how humanity progresses.

Missed Opportunities

When you don't see how much the world has changed, you will miss major business opportunities. As you now know, billions of people have escaped Level 1 in Asia and Africa, creating the biggest middle-income consumer market in world history. So don't think, "why is Africa poor," but rather "how can I help Africa become wealthy, and gain from that?"

If you care about your retirement fund, this should be of concern. Retirement funds will continue to lose out on high-growth investments in Africa and Asia if their managers don't know how much the market has grown in these parts of the world, leading to lower returns for retirees (like you). This also starves these countries of much-needed investment.

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Sobre la donación de dos millones de dólares de Guinea Ecuatorial a China: Comunicado del CPDS

07/02/2020 -

Convergencia para la Democracia Social de Guinea Ecuatorial (CPDS), ha recibido, con estupor e indignación, la noticia de que el Gobierno de Guinea Ecuatorial, presidido por el General Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, ha donado la cifra de dos millones de dólares americanos a la República Popular China como aportación a la lucha contra la epidemia del coronavirus, que afecta ya a miles de personas en ese país y ha causado la muerte de cerca de seiscientas.

China, la segunda economía del mundo, dispone de recursos más que suficientes para hacer frente a esa epidemia, no solo por sus recursos materiales y humanos, sino también por su experiencia en la lucha contra epidemias similares en el pasado reciente. De hecho, en menos de dos semanas, este gran país ha conseguido construir dos hospitales en la ciudad de Wuhan, epicentro de la enfermedad, para acoger a más de dos mil infectados.

Guinea Ecuatorial, por su parte, tras ser el tercer productor de hidrocarburos del África subsahariana y despilfarrar, mediante la corrupción y la mala gestión, los ingentes recursos provenientes de aquellos, se encuentra ahora sumida en una crisis económica profunda que ha dejado a miles de personas sin trabajo y un país carente de infraestructura hospitalaria y educativa.

Los pocos hospitales no están equipados ni disponen de productos farmacéuticos suficientes para atender a los pacientes, al tiempo que se ha agotado el stock de medicamentos para atender a los enfermos de tuberculosis. La sede de la Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial (UNGE), en Malabo, sigue en unas instalaciones construidas hace más de setenta años por los españoles para albergar la Escuela de Capacitación Agraria, mientras las obras de construcción del propio campus universitario se paralizaron hace cinco años y se encuentran ahora en medio de arbustos en el poblado de Basupú.

Según Human Rights Watch, que cita fuentes del Banco Mundial, el régimen de Obiang gastó, en infraestructuras, muchas de ellas inservibles, el 80 % del presupuesto anual, mientras dedicaba tan solo el 3 % en educación y salud, en contraste con otros países africanos como Uganda y Tanzania (que gastan casi un tercio de sus presupuestos en educación), Ghana (una cuarta parte) y Camerún y Gabón (el 16 %).

Según UNICEF, además de tener una tasa de pobreza del 78.6 %, una de las más elevadas de África, Guinea Ecuatorial es el país con la mayor brecha entre el producto interior bruto (PIB) per cápita y su clasificación según el índice de desarrollo humano (IDH). Más de dos terceras partes de la población ecuatoguineana viven con menos de dos dólares al día, lo que indica que el nivel de pobreza es cada vez más insoportable.

Por otra parte, el Gobierno de Obiang acaba de firmar un acuerdo de asistencia financiera con el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), para ayudar a aliviar la crisis que afecta al país en estos momentos.

En tales condiciones, ¿cómo puede este gobierno conceder una ayuda de dos millones de dólares a China? Si fuera por solidaridad, el apoyo podría ser simbólico, limitándose a una declaración de apoyo moral. Y si fuera por intentar ayudar realmente a China, dos millones de dólares no es mucho para el gigante asiático, y sí para un país empobrecido como Guinea Ecuatorial, donde gran parte de la población pasa hambre y muchos niños ya no van a la escuela por falta de recursos.

Es más, tras el incendio sufrido por la Catedral de Malabo hace un mes, el Gobierno descuenta del salario de los funcionarios un mínimo de cinco mil francos CFA para la restauración de aquella, sin previa notificación a los afectados.

CPDS se solidariza con el pueblo y gobierno de la República Popular China y confía en la ciencia, la tecnología y el poderío económico de los chinos para que el país gane la batalla contra el coronavirus y vuelva pronto a la normalidad.

CPDS condena el uso abusivo de los recursos de Guinea Ecuatorial por parte del General Obiang, quien administra el país como si fuera su finca familiar, buscando solo el interés político personal.

La Comisión Ejecutiva Nacional

Convergencia para la Democracia Social de Guinea Ecuatorial

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The Kakuma Refugee Camp has existed for 29 years, and during that time, has served as a temporary home for hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have found themselves at its gates. No one wants their life circumstances to lead them to a refugee camp.

Especially one in a landscape as harsh and unforgiving as Kakuma.

Initially the camp was built as a temporary refuge, but its gates have been open far longer than anyone anticipated.

Kakuma Refugee Camp was created when the Lost Boys of Sudan showed up at the border of Kenya. These boys fled their homes when violence erupted in their home country. They fled without parents or caretakers.

The trip from Sudan to Kenya was fraught, with many, many of these children dying on the way. 20,000 children were separated from their families during the violence in Sudan, and thousands of the boys died on the journey that followed. Many were picked off by lions or crocodiles, some starved to death, some were killed by hostile tribes, and some simply gave up hope, letting their bodies sink to the ground, and never getting up again.

They get their name from the story of Peter Pan, a group of boys without supervision or families, looking out for one another the best they can. Some of the Lost Boys are still in Kakuma.

29 years after it was created for them.

Some of them were able to move to America and Canada, but the terrorist attacks on 9/11 derailed the program, putting a permanent pause on any more of the boys moving. Many of the boys who didn't make it to America or Canada still live in Kakuma, even after all this time.

They're still lost.

Since its creation, dozens of other conflicts have filled the camp with refugees. These displaced people come from nearby countries, mostly fleeing the internal violence of civil wars. There are people from Sudan, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia living in the camp right now.

That's quite the variety of people and cultures to all find themselves living together in a small space. One of the challenges that faces aid workers in the camp is reconciling the different belief systems and lifestyles of the many different people who find their way into the camp.

There are also the relationships between the refugees and the local tribe, the Turkana tribe, to consider. Over the years that Kakuma has existed, the interactions between the refugees and the Turkana have sometimes been tense.

At the beginning, the Turkana tribe was concerned about the number of people settling into their homeland, and was also opposed to marriage between their children and the refugees. However, as time has gone on, the suspicion has lessened. Now, a lot of business goes on between them, which has helped build friendships and trust between the refugees and the locals. Now, intermarriage is accepted, and happens regularly.

There's still the occasional tension between the refugees and the locals, but overall their relationship has improved greatly.

What is it Like to be a Refugee?

Kakuma is a harsh landscape.

The refugees there live in houses built of tarps and dirt, ill-protected from the elements. There are few wells in the camp, which means that people are often forced to wait for hours at a time to obtain water. Sandstorms are also common in Kakuma, filling food and water containers with gritty earth, the plastic tarps unable to keep it all out.

The people who find themselves at the entrance of Kakuma are people who have lost everything they had ever known. Many have lost families, and all of them have lost their homes. Most of the people in the Kakuma Refugee Camp have fled violence in their home countries. They arrive at the border of Kenya, not necessarily looking for Kakuma itself. When they arrive, they are sent to the UN, who then sends them to Kakuma. Some of the residents of the camp were born there and have never known any home but the camp.

Out of these bleak situations, they've created a place where they can at least live among each other in relative peace, and provide for each others' very human needs within the camp.

Because the refugee camp has been there for so many years, those who live there have built up their own society. The refugees there have created their own restaurants and barber shops, among other stores. They are living in mud huts, with roofs of sheet metal and sometimes tarps functioning as walls.

They are displaced from their original homelands and are victims of political violence and civil wars. But out of these bleak situations, they've created a place where they can at least live among each other in relative peace, and provide for each others' very human needs within the camp.

The refugees in Kakuma have done well with what they had. But it is, still, difficult for them to permanently leave the refugee camp, and begin a life outside it again. One of the many difficulties that plays into this is that it is hard for refugees to obtain a work permit. Most refugees don't have them, and so "volunteer" at various jobs instead, and are paid incentives for their work. The incentives are much less than a salaried native would be paid.

The inability to make a living wage makes it very difficult for refugees to ever leave the camps they live in. The difficulties of obtaining work permits make the refugee's futures harder to make secure. There are, however, schools within the camp. These schools allow refugee children and adults to finish their educations and give them a chance at applying for work permits within Kenya.

For these refugees, finishing their educations can make all the difference.

Right now, there's a possibility that the Kenyan government might shut Kakuma down. Even though it was initially built as a place of temporary shelter, it's since become home to around 185,000 people. There are children who have been born in this camp, and have never known any other home than Kakuma. If the camp was to be closed, all of these people would be forced to go back to their home countries.

Many of these countries still haven't achieved peace, and functionally, these people have no homes to return to.

185,000 people is a vast number of people to displace by shutting down the camp. To do so creates a huge logistical problem for those who work there, and would be devastating to those who live in the camps.

It's hard to say what will happen if it gets shut down.

For now, Kakuma is still home to many, many refugees. Kakuma is home to many stories, much ingenuity, much hardship, and much grief. These are people who have overcome a lot to be in Kakuma, and have overcome a lot to create a life in Kakuma. Our in Kenya, Ben and Christine, worked in Kakuma Refugee Camp for many years before they became involved with Kinship United. You can read their story of working in Kakuma here.

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What's it like to be an African Refugee?

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Kakuma. A hot, harsh, dry place. Prone to sandstorms and droughts. Thorny bushes and flat topped trees are the only vegetation. And it's also home to 185,000 people in Kenya's second biggest refugee camp.

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All children deserve to eat but unfurtunately not all children in Africa can not eat every day because it is very expensive so they can not buy the food to be healthy.

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Right now, it is estimated that one person is dying of hunger every four seconds. Nearly 45 million people in 37 countries are projected to have so little to eat that they will be severely malnourished, at risk of death or already facing starvation and death.

There are four countries in Africa - Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan - as well as two countries in the Middle East - Afghanistan and Yemen - where there will be widespread starvation and death over the next few months unless action is taken now.

Save the Children is providing critical support in countries where extreme hunger threatens to claim thousands of children's lives-children who are facing a very real threat of starvation and death. However, the window of opportunity to avert widespread death and starvation is closing. We cannot wait for famine to be officially declared before acting. Children are already losing their lives. We must act now. There is no time to wait.

Children Facing Starvation in Africa and the Middle East Need Your Help Today

With hunger levels continuing to grow exponentially and thousands of people now on the brink of starvation, the situation has become critical.

Save the Children is providing critical support in countries where extreme hunger threatens to claim thousands of children's lives and futures over the next few months. We are providing food, cash, livelihood support and critical health and nutrition services to stop children from going hungry, either now, or in the future.

The world has alraedy seen the impact when we don't act or delay, when 260,000 people lost their lives in a devastating famine in the Horn of Africa in 2011. Half of them were young children. We must not let history repeat itself. The window of opportunity to avert widespread death and starvation is closing. Your support can make a difference.

Fawzia's mother travelled on foot for two days with her seven children from their rural farm to Baidoa in search of food, water and medical treatment.

Fawzia*Story: Screening Children in Africa for Malnutrition

Small measuring tapes like these are a crucial part of Save the Children's malnutrition screening programs, like the one that helped two-year old Fawzia. Fawzia received treatment for malnutrition at Save the Children's health clinic on the outskirts of Baidoa in Somalia.

Somalia is one of the three countries in the Horn of Africa where a catastrophic food crisis is unfolding.

Health workers used a MUAC band to determine Fawzia's level of malnutrition. MUAC (Mid-Upper Arm Circumference) tapes are very easy to use and can quickly deliver critical information. The bands are simply wrapped around the mid-point of the child's upper arm and, taking into account the child's ages, the circumference of their arm is measured against different colored zones on the band.

Green is normal, yellow is moderately malnourished and red is severely malnourished. If children in the red zone are not quickly treated, there is a very real risk the child could die or suffer from profound long-term health and development issues.

Our Impact Across Six Countries Facing Widespread Starvation Right Now

Right now, Save the Children is working in Africa, the Middle East and across the globe to save lives and prevent widespread hunger in the short-term, whilst also implementing long-term solutions and more resilient systems that better manage the risk of future crises.

Somalia
More than half of children aged under five in Somalia are facing acute malnutrition, with one in six suffering from the most deadly form as time to fend off famine starts to run out.

Save the Children has worked in Somalia since 1951. This year, we have reached more than 24,000 people through cash programming and treated more than 50,000 children for malnutrition. We are currently providing water trucking to more than 25,000 households and unconditional cash provisions to nearly 11,000 households in the worst-affected areas.

South Sudan
The hunger crisis in South Sudan is especially dire, as roughly half the population is without enough food. Some 1.7 million people are facing emergency levels of hunger, which is one step away from famine. Nearly one million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished.

Our teams are working hard to screen children for malnutrition and help prevent the deadly diseases they are more likely to contract and die from, including measles, malaria, diarrhea, cholera and pneumonia.

Ethiopia
Children are still feeling the impact from the worst drought to hit Ethiopia in more than 50 years. Millions of families dependent on rain to grow crops for food and income remain at risk of extreme hunger and malnutrition. Additionally, the country is home to one of the largest populations of refugees.

Save the Children has worked to improve nutrition among the poorest Ethiopian children. Working very closely with the government, our teams are devising a national nutrition plan and responding quickly and efficiently to save as many lives as possible. We are also working with communities to improve their knowledge so that they are better equipped to protect themselves and their children from the effects of hunger. Our mobile health teams provide assessment and treatment of children suffering malnutrition.

Nigeria
Right now, 1.9 million people require urgent humanitarian assistance, as conflict and displacement has left countless families without food or basic necessities.

We're distributing food to vulnerable families, running feeding and treatment centers, in addition to providing psychosocial support.

Afghanistan
Nearly 19 million people (45% of the population) across all 34 provinces of the Afghanistan, including nearly 10 million children, are expected to face crisis or worse (IPC 3+) levels of food insecurity. Nearly 6 million of those will be in emergency conditions (IPC 4), just one step away from famine.

Yemen
Over two-thirds of the population in Yemen is already need humanitarian assistance, and at least half of the population are food insecure.

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Sources:
[i] UNICEF Accessed 24 March 2018
[ii] In 2015, the infant mortality rate for American Indians was 8.2, compared to 5.9 for the United States as a whole. Source: National KIDS COUNT Data Center Accessed 25 March 2018
[iii]Stop the War on Children report
[iv]2019 Global Childhood Report

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Child Starvation in Africa and the Middle East

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Girls in Africa the best thing could happen is that they go to school 5 years, and thats the best thing, they have less rights respected than men(men doesn't have so many) and you are lucky if you are born a place of Africa that is not Subsahariana.

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El pasado fin de semana Thabo Mbeki, ex presidente de Sudáfrica y presidente del Panel de Alto Nivel de Conflictos Financieros en África daba un dato demoledor sobre las finanzas del continente: "África pierde 50.000 millones de dólares cada año en lavado de dinero".

Para poner en perspectiva lo que supone esa pérdida de dinero para el continente, el propio Mbeki daba una cifra demoledora. "Se calcula que África recibe ahora 25.000 millones de dólares en cooperación al desarrollo". Según datos del Banco Mundial, en 2010 todo el dinero recibido en el continente de los donantes fue de 42.000 millones de USD.

Mbeki hacía esta denuncia en Maputo, capital de Mozambique, tras reunirse con su presidente, Armando Guebuza, en el contexto de una gira que está realizando por varios países africanos para concienciar del gravísimo problema que supone para África esta fuga de dinero.

Debe combatirlo 'todo el continente'

"Es importante que este mal sea combatido en conjunto por todo el continente y poder usar esos fondos en la lucha contra la pobreza y el desenvolvimiento económico", dijo Mbeki.

La misión de este panel, que debe entregar un informe con conclusiones en marzo de 2014 y que ha tenido ya reuniones de trabajo en Argelia, Nigeria y la República Democrática del Congo, es conseguir que todas las instituciones implicadas comiencen a luchar contra esta lacra.

"En Mozambique tendremos reuniones con miembros del Gobierno de las aduanas, agentes económicos y sociedad civil", explicó el dirigente sudafricano. Mbeki sacó de Guebuza un compromiso formal de lucha que deberá ahora traducirse, como en otros países, en políticas concretas.

Las palabras de Mbeki, bajo cuyo gobierno en Sudáfrica se sucedieron multitud de flagrantes casos de corrupción, son un nuevo aviso de que algo se sigue haciendo muy mal en África con los fondos públicos.

El dinero ilegal duplica las ayudas

Un estudio publicado en 2012 por el Global Financial Integrity denunciaba que en el periodo comprendido entre 1970 y 2008 la cantidad de dinero ilegal que ha salido del continente es de 854.000 millones de dólares.

Esta cifra supone el doble de la cantidad entregada por la Ayuda Oficial al Desarrollo en ese mismo periodo. En 2002, un estudio de la propia Unión Africana cifraba en 150 mil millones de dólares el dinero que se perdía por la corrupción.

Nada cambia. Ya en 2012 el Ethiopian Institute for Peace and Developement realizó un estudio financiero sobre este problema y afirmó que África perdía anualmente 60.000 millones de dólares por el lavado de dinero, un 20% más de lo que estima el Alto Panel de Conflictos Financieros.

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África pierde cada año 50.000 millones de dólares por el lavado de dinero

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El pasado fin de semana Thabo Mbeki, ex presidente de Sudáfrica y presidente del Panel de Alto Nivel de Conflictos Financieros en África daba un dato demoledor sobre las finanzas del continente: "África pierde 50.000 millones de dólares cada año en lavado de dinero".

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Fecha: 21/09/2018 Tiempo de lectura: 5 Min.

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Niñas africanas, ¿cómo es ser niña en África?

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Las niñas africanas se enfrentan en su vida a numerosos problemas como la discriminación, la falta de acceso a la educación o los matrimonios infantiles.

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Con este escrito trataré de relatar una experiencia maravillosa como enfermero profesional que me gustaría plasmar en papel. Con ello espero motivar a mis compañeros de profesión a que tomen conciencia de su labor asistencial.

Una buena forma es colaborar como voluntario una temporada en el continente africano, como hice yo. Cuando ayudas en este inmenso continente a personas que viven en otro mundo muy diferente al que estamos acostumbrados, aprendes muchos valores y creces como persona y como profesional sanitario.

Atender a las personas enfermas día a día en un puesto sanitario improvisado te abre la mente y te las ingenias para poder cuidar y curar con lo poco que tienes. Expondré algunos ejemplos para que vean a lo que me refiero.

A falta de camas, por ejemplo, se improvisaba una hecha con troncos de madera y ramas. Para esterilizar material lo teníamos que quemar, como hace siglos, porque no había hornos Pasteur. Para poder iluminarnos por la noche usábamos pequeños generadores, puesto que la electricidad no llegaba donde nosotros estábamos. Para entablillar una pierna fracturada, cogíamos tablas y las enrollábamos con cuerdas.

Estas y muchas improvisaciones más hacen que agudices tu ingenio al máximo. Impresiona saber que hay gente que muere por la simple caída de una bicicleta. Una herida abierta que se infecta, al no poder desinfectarla adecuadamente al carecer de agua oxigenada o agua meramente limpia, junto con una cura de la herida deficiente al carecer de medios materiales, hacen que una persona pueda llegar a la muerte al cabo de un tiempo. Por otra parte, un mero esguince les puede dejar inválidos al cabo de unos meses si no se trata bien.

Cabe recordar que la esperanza de vida en estos lugares ronda los 50-60 años. Por lo tanto, es preciso saber que las personas en los países africanos son muy vulnerables.

Otro aspecto que me gustaría contar de mi experiencia es que a pesar de esta precariedad material que había, la población a la que ofrecía mis servicios siempre sonreía y era feliz con lo poco que poseía. Los niños se sorprendían de la cantidad de instrumentos que teníamos donde trabajábamos, veían objetos que nunca habían visto antes y desconocían su nombre por completo. Algunos ni se movían al verlo, pensando que quizás les iba a hacer daño o algo parecido.

Otra de las cosas que me sorprendieron, ya mencionada, fue la felicidad con la que viven. Quisiera ahondar en esto. Rápidamente le sacas una sonrisa a cualquier joven y si son más pequeños lo consiguen de forma más inmediata. En los países más avanzados, la juventud está muy acostumbrada a convivir con las tecnologías (tabletas, ordenadores, móviles, impresoras, etc.) y, por lo general, son muy materialistas. En cambio, la juventud con la que conviví en África se divertía y reía contando historias, jugando con pocas cosas y colaborando siempre con la familia.

Allí, al carecer de dinero, en ciertas aldeas se practicaba el trueque como pago. Me daban a cambio de mis servicios alimentos como huevos o leche en la mayoría de los casos.

El tiempo pasa diferente en África. Una vez alguien me dijo: "Vosotros tenéis el reloj, pero nosotros tenemos el tiempo". Tienen tiempo para disfrutar de la vida, sentirla en familia y con sus seres queridos y cuidan a los enfermos con más tranquilidad y sin tanto estrés. El tiempo pasa lento, sin prisas para poder atenderlos con calidad a pesar de la falta de material y personal.

Ahora que he regresado tengo otra visión de la vida. Los africanos no se fijan en las cosas materiales, sino que la felicidad la encuentran entre ellos mismos y la naturaleza que les rodea. El sol, la tierra, el aire y el agua, los cuatro elementos esenciales para conformar la vida, como dijo Empédocles. Estos cuatro elementos les dan fuerzas para seguir adelante a pesar de las adversidades que tengan.

Trabajo actualmente con un contrato indefinido y estoy contento, pero tengo una actitud diferente al saber lo agraciados que somos de tener tantos medios para poder dar cuidados de calidad y con unas condiciones óptimas para el tratamiento. La gente tiene que ser consciente de lo que valen las cosas, de lo que cuesta conseguirlas, y para ello han de tomar conciencia y no malgastar recursos sanitarios como muchas veces ocurre.

Sabemos que deberían de mejorar las cosas en ciertos países porque no tienen las mismas condiciones que donde nosotros residimos actualmente, pero podemos ayudar haciendo este tipo voluntariado por un tiempo. También hay otras formas, como donar algo de dinero o enviar alimentos, pero a mi parecer, lo mejor es residir allí una temporada, porque ves de primera mano cosas como las que relato en este escrito.

Por eso recomiendo a cualquier profesional sanitario que tenga ganas de salir de la monotonía del primer mundo que vea, sienta y aprenda lo que la vida significa al conocer culturas diferentes y estilos de vida contrarios a lo que en nuestra mente está inculcado.

Para terminar, quisiera decir que nuestro trabajo profesional, la Enfermería, es inmensamente humano y siempre te lo agradecerán con lo mejor que tienen, la sonrisa. El gesto más precioso del ser humano a mi modo de ver.
Salvador Moreno J. La vida en África. Metas Enferm nov 2017; 20(9): 79-80

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Con este escrito trataré de relatar una experiencia maravillosa como enfermero profesional que me gustaría plasmar en papel. Con ello espero motivar a mis compañeros de profesión a que tomen conciencia de su labor asistencial. Una buena forma es colaborar como voluntario una temporada en el continente africano, como hice yo.

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Pocas veces conocemos a los hombres y mujeres de África y su forma de vida: gente con proyectos innovadores y que sale adelante en medio de las dificultades. ¿Cómo son sus viviendas, el mundo laboral, los transportes, el ocio, la educación, la salud y el surgimiento de la todavía pequeña clase media africana en los últimos años?
Interviene: Aurora Moreno Alcojor. Reportera freelance en Mundo Negro, GuinGuinBali y otros medios. Editora del blog Porfinenafrica.com, ganador del Premio Bitácoras 2012 al mejor blog social en castellano.
Para saber más

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LA VIDA COTIDIANA EN ÁFRICA - África es Imprescindible

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Pocas veces conocemos a los hombres y mujeres de África y su forma de vida: gente con proyectos innovadores y que sale adelante en medio de las dificultades. Los conoceremos de la mano de Aurora Moreno en Tudela con esta charla y debate.

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Esta semana en la revista ¿Por qué? hablamos de las causas de la emigración forzada de millones de personas. Muchas de ellas en África, en situaciones desesperadas.

Decenas de miles de personas tratan cada año de llegar a Europa desde África, y lo hacen entrando por los países más próximos, España y sobre todo Italia. Gastan todo lo que tienen en el viaje pero muchos no consiguen llegar:
mueren al cruzar el Mediterráneo o al atravesar el desierto del Sahara. Los que lo logran dicen que nunca volverían a
repetir esta experiencia. ¿Qué les empuja a arriesgar la vida en esta aventura?

La emigración no es un fenómeno nuevo. Entre los países africanos es constante, pero en cuanto los emigrantes ven la posibilidad de alcanzar Europa lo intentan convencidos de que aquí las oportunidades de trabajo son mayores. Hacerlo por las vías legales, pidiendo un visado en una embajada europea, no es fácil, sin embargo.

El diccionario define la palabra 'éxodo' como la migración de un pueblo o de una gran cantidad de personas. África
sufre un verdadero éxodo de jóvenes desde hace decenios a causa de las crisis políticas y económicas. Muchos se juegan la vida en el Mediterráneo en su intento de llegar a Europa.

En 2015 un millón de personas llegaron a Europa. La mayoría huían de las guerras de Siria, Iraq y Afganistán. Solo
unos 34.000 lo hicieron por tierra, a través de Turquía. El resto lo hizo atravesando el Mediterráneo por dos rutas: la más corta, entre Turquía y Grecia, y la más complicada, llegando primero a Egipto y a Libia para embarcarse camino de Italia. Libia se ha convertido desde entonces en el principal punto de salida, pero ya no para los sirios sino sobre todo para los africanos.

Libia fue durante años el país al que miles de africanos acudían en busca de trabajo, hasta que en 2011 el coronel Moamar Gadafi fue derrocado y asesinado. La guerra dejó el país en un caos, y los inmigrantes no vieron mejor solución que intentar desde allí el salto a Italia. Las bandas armadas y las mafias vieron enseguida una gran oportunidad y, en conexión con grupos similares en los países vecinos, han hecho de la emigración a Europa un gran negocio.

Si un joven de Guinea Conakry, por ejemplo, quiere llegar a Italia, tendrá que cruzar, en autobús, en camioneta, la frontera de Costa de Marfil, después la de Burkina Faso, luego la de Níger y por fin la de Libia. Cada vez tendrá que pagar, no solo por el viaje sino también para que los policías y guardias de frontera hagan la vista gorda por dejarle entrar ilegalmente en su país. A lo mejor este joven tendrá incluso que comprar un documento de identidad falso. En Níger y en Libia tendrá que ponerse en manos de las mafias que trafican con personas y, si tiene suerte, por fin llegará a la costa y será embarcado en una patera o una lancha de goma con otras 40 o 60 personas, la mayoría hombres pero también mujeres y niños.

Más de 114.000 personas han llegado de esta manera a Italia este año y otras 3.000 han muerto ahogadas a pesar de los esfuerzos de los barcos de rescate de las oenegés y de la Guardia Costera italiana. En el caso de España, unas 16.000 llegaron a través del estrecho de Gibraltar. Al final, nuestro joven de Guinea Conakry se puede haber gastado 2.000 euros en la travesía, todo el dinero de su familia, que quizás ha vendido las propiedades que tenía esperando que esto será compensado con el dinero que él vaya enviando desde Europa.

Pero es muy probable que las ilusiones no se cumplan y nuestro inmigrante acabe recogiendo chatarra por las calles
de Barcelona o trabajando en los campos de Sicilia cobrando a razón de un euro la hora. Y sin embargo, nadie que ha
gastado todos los ahorros de la familia para emprender el viaje quiere volver a casa con una sensación de fracaso.
Si echamos un vistazo a la lista de países de los que parten más emigrantes veremos que en todos se dan condiciones
parecidas de pobreza y guerra o violencia. Nunca hay una sola causa para salir, y todas están sie mpre relacionadas.

Por ejemplo, dos países uno al extremo del otro en el mapa africano: Mali y Somalia. De ambos han partido refugiados hacia los países vecinos y en dirección a Europa, y en los dos coinciden años de sequía y por tanto de pobreza e incluso de hambre, inestabilidad política y presencia de grupos armados y terroristas. Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Costa de Marfil y Eritrea son los países africanos de los que han salido más refugiados y emigrantes. En todos ellos coinciden una distribución injusta de la riqueza y gobiernos corruptos y dictatoriales. El
reparto injusto de la riqueza -en particular en países ricos en minerales como Guinea o en petróleo como Nigeria-
y la corrupción implican que solo tienen posibilidades de prosperar aquellos que trabajan para el Estado, para el poder económico o el poder militar, poderes que además suelen ir unidos: el empleo y las oportunidades se alcanzan según quién eres, según quiénes son tus familiares, según a quién conoces. Esto hace que una gran parte de la población se quede fuera de la economía.

En Nigeria, un país enorme y riquísimo, las desigualdades sociales y las grandes diferencias entre los habitantes del norte y los del sur han acabado provocando el fenómeno de la organización terrorista Boko Haram, que actúa con tremenda violencia. En esa situación de deterioro social, las mafias -muchas, dedicadas al tráfico de personas- salen muy beneficiadas.

En Gambia ha estado gobernando durante 22 años un presidente enloquecido, Yahya Jammeh, que decía tener poderes mágicos y ser capaz de curar el sida con unas hierbas milagrosas que solo hacían efecto los jueves. Lo echaron del poder en febrero pero se dice que escapó con 10.000 millones de euros, toda la fortuna del Estado. Gambia tiene menos de dos millones de habitantes, podría sin duda vivir mejor, pero los jóvenes no tienen
ninguna esperanza de mejora y a pesar del cambio político siguen marchándose.

También los jóvenes huyen de Eritrea, y no es raro. En el otro extremo de África, en el territorio de un antiguo reino que fue de los primeros en adoptar el cristianismo (aunque hoy convive la religión musulmana), gobierna desde 1993 Isaías Afewerki. Su dictadura es tan insoportable que Eritrea ha sido calificada por las organizaciones de defensa de los derechos humanos como uno de los peores países del mundo. Y la mayoría de jóvenes, chicos y chicas, que tratan de escapar lo hacen porque el servicio militar es obligatorio y puede durar... toda la vida.

Hace poco, en noviembre de este año, ha sido obligado a retirarse el presidente de Zimbabue. Robert Mugabe tenía el record mundial de un presidente en el poder: 39 años. Demasiado lejos de Europa, los zimbabuos optan por emigrar a la vecina Sudáfrica. Zimbabue es un caso típico de país rico que ha sido llevado a la ruina. ¿Mejorarán las cosas después de Mugabe? Es muy posible que no, porque la riqueza está en manos de unos pocos, los militares son los verdaderos dueños del Estado y aunque celebran elecciones la democracia es una farsa.

Europa cierra sus puertas a los inmigrantes africanos (muchos de los cuales deberían ser considerados refugiados y tener derecho de asilo por las condiciones de vida del lugar del que proceden) pensando que se enfrenta a una "invasión". Pero si, por un lado, eso significa no reconocer que fueron los europeos los que invadieron África,
también es exagerado creer que van a llegar millones de personas. En realidad, nadie quiere dejar su casa.

Las cosas podrían cambiar mucho, y desde luego se salvarían vidas, con un sistema migratorio ordenado y legal. Y
todavía cambiarían más si las relaciones comerciales con los países africanos fueran justas, si por ejemplo
pagáramos más caro el chocolate, de manera que los cultivadores de cacao de Costa de Marfil pudieran vivir
dignamente. Y si los políticos europeos dejaran de apoyar a señores como Yahya Jammeh, que decía que iba a
gobernar "mil años".

Esta semana en la revista ¿Por qué? hablamos de las causas de la emigración forzada de millones de personas. Muchas de ellas en África, en situaciones desesperadas.

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¿Por qué huyen de África? - El Diario de la Educación

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Decenas de miles de personas tratan cada año de llegar a Europa desde África, y lo hacen entrando por los países más próximos, España y sobre todo Italia. Gastan todo lo que tienen en el viaje pero muchos no consiguen llegar: mueren al cruzar el Mediterráneo o al atravesar el desierto del Sahara.

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Africa is an amazing continent that is distinctly unique among the seven continents. Africa is rich in cultural heritage and diversity, a wealth of natural resources, offers breathtaking tourist attractions, and contains some of the most intricate political systems. Explore this incredible continent with some of the most interesting facts about Africa.

Facts About Africa

1. Africa is the second-largest continent in the world both in size and population. As of 2009, about 14.7 percent of the world's population resides in Africa.

2. Africa is home to over 1 billion people who speak over 1,500 different languages. One in every four of the world's language are spoken only in Africa.

3. Africa's total size is roughly 11.7 square miles, representing about a fifth of the earth's total landmass. This makes it larger than India, China, Mexica, and USA's and a huge chunk of Europe combined.

4. During the early Mesozoic Era, Africa was attached to all the other continents to form one gigantic continental landmass called Pangea. Pangea later broke apart to form the world's continents as we know them today.

5. Despite Africa being the second-largest continent in the world, it has the shortest coastline. This is due to the many bays and edges that extend out of the coastline.

6. World civilization began in Africa. The Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt is the oldest literate civilization. According to historical records, the Egyptian state dates back to about 3300 B.C.

7. Islam is the dominant religion in Africa. Christianity is the second. Arabic is also the most widely-spoken language in Africa.

8. About 38% of all Christians are projected to be living in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2050.

9. Africa is the most centrally located continent in the world. Both the prime meridian (0 degrees longitude), and the equator (0 degrees latitude) cut across it.

10. Africa's largest country is Sudan. It has a total area of 967,940 square miles (2.5 million km2). The smallest country on the continent is The Seychelles, which is an island nation covering just 453 km2 (175 miles2).

11. Nigeria has the highest population (154.7 million people) in Africa. This represents 18% of Africa's total population.

12. South Africa has the highest GDP (($182 billion) in Africa. Guinea Bissau has the lowest at $230 million.

13. The richest SSA country in terms of Gross National Income (GNI) per capita is Equatorial Guinea. This is 83 times higher than that of Zimbabwe which is the poorest in terms of GNI per capita.

14. 21 percent of SSA nations have one or two products accounting for their total exports. Most of these exports are in form of agricultural produce.

15. As of 2008, South Africa consumes the most electricity per person (4,759.5kW/h) in Africa. Ethiopia has the least consumption (42.3 kW/h).

Africa is a vast continent, with many contrasts within it.

Population: 1 billion, two and half times the number of people living in South America.

Land Area: 30,343,580 square kilometres (11,715,720 square miles) which is a fifth of the total land area of the Earth.

Countries: 54. list of countries

Highest Peak: Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania rises to 5,895 metres (19,341 feet) above sea level.

Largest Lake: Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres (26,564 square miles) in area and is divided between three countries, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Longest River: The River Nile is 6,695 kilometres (4,160 miles). The longest river in the world!

Smallest Country (by land area): The Seychelles, a group of 115 islands located north east of Madagascar.

Biggest Country: Algeria, the tenth biggest country in the world.

Smallest Nation (of people): Gambia.

Languages: over 2,000 different languages.

In South Africa you are legally allowed to attach flamethrowers to your car in order to deter car jacking. Seriously.

Africa is made up of many different cultures; from Black Africans to the Arab peoples of North Africa, and White Africans, descended from the generations of European settlers that arrived, from the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. As a result the number of languages spoken here is huge - there are 500 languages spoken in Nigeria alone. Jambo! Have you heard of Zulu, Swahili, Sotho and Tswana?

1. In Swaziland, Africa, one in every four adults is HIV positive.

2. To date, over 17 million people in SSA have succumbed to AIDS. Estimates put the current number of HIV infection in Africa at 25 million people.

3. 16 countries in Africa record higher rates of vaccination than the U.S. alone.

4. The Second Congo War, which began in 1998 and lasted until 2006, claimed the second-highest number of casualties (5.4 million lives), after World War II. The conflict involved eight African countries.

5. According to the World Bank, Seychelles had a 92 percent women literacy rate in 2010. Chad's equivalent was 13 percent while Niger's was 15 percent.

6. As of 2010, it took 216 days to complete each procedure required to start a business in Guinea-Bissau. In Rwanda, the same took only 3 days.

7. Only 24 percent of SSA's rural population has access to standard sanitation. This is in comparison to 42 percent of the urban population with access to the same.

8. Tanzania, Africa, has the world's highest Albinism rates. In the country, Albino are hunted by witchdoctors to use their organs for rituals believed to heal diseases.

9. Witwatersrand, South Africa, produces almost half of all the gold mined in Africa.

10. More people speak French in Africa than do those in France.

11. A single tribe in Kenya-called the "Kalenjin"-produces most of the world's fastest long-distance runners.

12. Egypt is Africa's most popular tourist destination. The country receives over 10 million visitors every year. Cairo, Egypt's capital city, is also Africa's largest city.

13. Women from Africa's Mursi tribe pierce their lips and wear plates as large are 5 inches in diameter, inside them (lips).

14. The national flag of Mozambique has the image of an AK-47 assault rifle embedded into it. It is the only national flag in the world featuring such a modern rifle.

15. All of Africa's nations were colonized by the Europeans except two: Ethiopia and Liberia. The former was an Orthodox Christian country, while the latter was established by African-American settlers from the United States, who previously served as slaves.

The word "Crossword" in Kiswahili, a language spoken mainly by people in eastern and central Africa is "chemshebongo" which, when translated, means "boil brains". I suppose after trying to do the Sunday New York Times puzzle your head might feel like exploding!

Of the 1 billion people living in Africa today the differences between rich and poor here are stark. In sub-Saharan Africa (the area south of the Sahara Desert), eight of ten people live on less than $2.50 a day. But in Africa's wealthiest cities, like Cairo and Johannesburg, foreign sports cars and grand mansion houses can been seen. Mobile phones are not just for the rich, though, in Africa. For example, more than 100,000,000 people in Nigeria use a mobile phone - well over half the population - allowing them to work,trade and simply stay in touch.

Africa has immense wealth, like precious metals, under the ground. African countries produce one third of the world's gold supply of which half comes from South Africa. One of the continent's richest nations, South Africa, is also the source of most of the world's platinum and half of global chromium (the chemical element you add to iron to get the stainless steel your knife, fork and spoon are made out of).The Democratic Republic of Congo boasts 30% of the world's diamond reserves, but war over decades within this country has affected its people, including its children.Other countries, like Libya and Nigeria have been made wealthy by selling oil. However there are many Africans whose lives remain untouched by this money.

But did you know that in Ethiopia, clocks are upside down with our 6:00 at their 12:00?

1. The shortest distance between Africa and Europe is only 8.9 miles (14.3 kilometers) of ocean.

2. Africa's Nile River is the world's longest river. It has a total length of 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) and cuts across 11 countries. It drains into the Mediterranean Sea from Africa's Northeastern edge.

3. The largest island in Africa, located in the Indian Ocean (off Africa's East Coast) is Madagascar. It is also the fourth largest in the world.

4. The Victoria Falls, located along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Zambezi River is the fall's main water source.

5. The largest lake in Africa is Lake Victoria. It is also the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, spanning 26,830 square miles.

6. Africa's Sahara desert is the world's largest hot desert covering 9.1 million km2. Of the deserts of the world, it is the third largest after the Arctic (second largest) and Antarctic (largest) deserts.

7. Ethiopia is the only African country with its own alphabet. It's also the world's oldest living alphabets - Ethiopic - and probably one of the longest with its 345 letters.

8. Sudan has more than 200 pyramids, double the number found in Egypt.The Meroe pyramids were part of the Nubian Kingdom of Kush and are up to 4,600 years old.

9. Almost half of the gold ever mined on Earth has come from a single place - Witwatersrand, South Africa.

10. While the world population is today growing slower than ten years ago, it is projected that by 2050 there will be 9.7 billion people. Of the 2.4 billion to be added to the world's current population into that year, 1.3 billion, or more than half the growth, will be across Africa.

11. Some 21 countries globally are classified as "high-fertility", where the average woman has five or more children over her lifetime. These countries account for nine per cent of the world's population, and 19 of them are in Africa, of which the largest are Nigeria, DRC, Tanzania and Uganda.

12. Africa has approximately 30 percent of the earth's remaining mineral resources. South Africa's total mineral reserves alone is estimated to be worth $2.5 trillion. The continent has the largest reserves of precious metals with over 40 percent of the planet's gold reserves, over 60 percent of the cobalt, and 90 percent of the platinum reserves.

13. Arabic is spoken by 170 million people on the continent, followed in popularity by English (130 million), Swahili (100), French (115), Berber (50), Hausa (50), Portuguese (20) and Spanish (10).

14. Over 50% of Africans are under the age of 25.

15. The Second Congo War claimed over 5.4 million lives and is the deadliest worldwide conflict since World War II.

Millions of people visit Africa on holiday to see its famous historic sites - the most popular is the Great Pyramid of Giza, found just outside the Egyptian capital city Cairo. Africa is a land mass big enough to fit Europe into three times over. From South Africa's Cape of Good Hope to the Suez Canal in Egypt it is 7,300 km (or 4,540 miles).
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Between 1999 and 2012, the world saw a decrease in out-of-school adolescents in every region except for sub-Saharan Africa. Although aspects of education in Africa have improved, including more children being knowledgeable about HIV and AIDS, many obstacles remain. Below are ten facts about education in Africa to illustrate the ongoing struggle.

Top 10 Education in Africa Facts

1. Africa has the highest rates of educational exclusion in the world. Over one-fifth of children between the ages of 6 and 11 and one-third between the ages of 12 and 14 are out of school.

2. Almost 60% of children in sub-Saharan Africa between the ages of 15 and 17 are not in school.

3. Girls are much more likely to stay out of school than boys. Nine million girls between the ages of about 6 and 11 in Africa will never go to school at all, compared to six million boys.

4. A UNESCO study in 2012 showed that the number of primary-aged children not attending school in Africa accounted for more than half of the global total.

5. Mom-connect, an SMS texting program based in South Africa, provides educational information regarding health care and health insurance coverage. The platform connects female health workers with other women who may have health questions or concerns about their families. Apps such as this one provide knowledge where gaps exist in the educational system.

6. In sub-Saharan Africa, only about one-quarter of pre-primary teachers are trained. Upper secondary school teachers have a slightly better ratio: about 50% have training.

7. UNICEF partnered with the LEGO Foundation to establish an online training platform that reached 150,000 teachers in South Africa in 2016 alone.

8. The rate of gross enrollment in tertiary education in sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world, sitting at only eight percent as of 2014. This is far lower than the gross enrollment of the second-lowest country, Southern Asia, which is at 23%, where the global average is 34%.

9. Sub-Saharan Africa opposes Eastern Europe and Central Asia when it comes to gender disparity in education among urban areas. The latter tend to see a higher level of both educational attainment and literacy among females, while sub-Saharan Africa sees the opposite. In a study by UNESCO, men in Ghana had over two more years of education than women.

10. If every girl in sub-Saharan Africa completed even just primary education, the maternal mortality rate would likely decrease by 70%.

These facts about education in Africa are only the beginning of the information available. Studies have shown that school enrollment rates in 11 African countries between 1999 and 2012 increased by at least 20%. However, issues continue to remain that result in children dropping out of school. Quality and accessibility of education in Africa must be resolved before the situation can improve. UNESCO warns that "without urgent action, the situation will likely get worse as the region faces a rising demand for education due to a still-growing school-age population."

- Katherine Gallagher

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Poverty and Education in East Africa: Breaking the Cycle

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The causes of poverty in Africa cannot be narrowed down to one single source. As a developing country, Africa has a lengthy history of external, internal and man-made forces at work to bring about the circumstances this continent suffers from today.

In sub-Saharan Africa, almost 220 million people, half the population, live in poverty. Worsened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, cultural conflict and ethnic cleansing, Africa faces many challenges that directly correlate with its impoverished status.

Poor Governance

Poor governance, one of the major causes of poverty in Africa, involves various malpractices by the state and its workers. This malpractice has led many African leaders to push away the needs of the people. Having created the " personal rule paradigm," where they treat their offices as a form of property and personal gain, these leaders openly appoint underqualified personnel in key positions at state-owned institutions and government departments. This type of governance affects the poorest people and leaves them vulnerable, as they are denied basic necessities such as healthcare, food and shelter.

Corruption

Corruption has been and still is a major issue in the development of and fight against poverty in Africa, specifically sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SSA is considered to be among the most corrupt places in the world. According to a survey conducted by World Anti-Corruption, corruption in Africa is "due to the fact that many people in Africa believe that family relations are more important than country identity. Therefore, those in power use bias and bribery for the gain of their relatives at the expense of their country."

Corruption costs SSA roughly $150 billion a year in lost revenue. While some countries in Africa, such as Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda, have made some progress in the fight against corruption, there are still many lagging very far behind. A lack of effort to solve this issue only worsens the causes of poverty in Africa today.

Poor Education

Lack of education is also a serious issue that contributes to the causes of poverty in Africa. This absence is especially felt in sub-Saharan Africa, which has the highest rates of educational exclusion. Over one-fifth of children between the ages of about six and 11 are out of school, followed by one-third of youth between the ages of about 12 and 14. Almost 60 percent of youth between the ages of about 15 and 17 are not in school.

Education for girls has become a major focus of support groups like UNICEF, UNESCO and the UIS. With poor access to school, lack of sanitary facilities and social norms like female genital mutilation and child marriage, the right to women's education is even less of a priority in impoverished communities.

However, education, especially girls' education, has been proven to be one of the most cost-effective strategies for promoting economic growth. According to UNICEF, "studies have shown that educated mothers tend to have healthier, better-nourished babies and that their own children are more likely to attend school; thus helping break the vicious cycle of poverty."

Healthcare

Poor healthcare is a major cause of poverty in Africa because the poor cannot afford to purchase what is needed for good health, including sufficient quantities of quality food and healthcare itself. With a lack of education on preventing infectious diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS, as well as the costs of consultations, tests and medicine, people living in poverty are at a severe disadvantage that only perpetuates the poverty cycle.

With a strong fight against many forces still ahead of this nation, Africa must weed out the corruption and poor government, and promote strong education and efficient healthcare for all, in order to take a big leap forward in its development as a continent.
- Kailey Brennan

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On November 20, 1989, the General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously adopted the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. The application of this text represents a goal for all humankind.

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La primera vez que hablé con Nelson Mandela fue en 1994, cuando me pidió ayuda para financiar las primeras elecciones multirraciales de Sudáfrica. No sucede todos los días que Nelson Mandela te llame, por eso lo recuerdo tan bien. Por aquel entonces yo dirigía Microsoft y el software ocupaba mi pensamiento prácticamente todo el día. Pero admiraba a Nelson Mandela, y sabía que aquellas elecciones serían históricas, por eso hice todo lo que estaba en mi mano para ayudar.

Justo el año anterior había visitado África por primera vez, en unas vacaciones con mi esposa Melinda en África Oriental. Por supuesto, sabíamos que había regiones de África muy pobres, pero aquel viaje al continente africano nos abrió los ojos ante una injusticia tan arrolladora que nos resultó imposible ignorar.

Sobrepasados por aquella cruda desigualdad, empezamos a plantearnos qué hacer para mejorar algo las cosas. A los pocos años, creamos nuestra fundación. Pude conocer a Nelson Mandela personalmente cuando empecé a venir a África regularmente por temas de la fundación. Fue tanto un asesor como una fuente de inspiración.

Un tema sobre el que Nelson Mandela volvía en su trayectoria de vida era el poder de la juventud. Y como Nelson Mandela, opino que los jóvenes son una de las razones por las que ver con optimismo el futuro de África. Por estadísticas demográficas, África es el continente más joven del mundo, y su juventud puede ser el origen de un dinamismo especial.

Los economistas hablan del dividendo demográfico y del potencial de la creciente población joven de África para acelerar el crecimiento económico. Pero según lo veo yo, lo más importante sobre los jóvenes es cómo funcionan sus mentes. Los jóvenes son mejores impulsores de la innovación que los mayores, porque no se frenan por los límites de la experiencia pasada. Tenía 19 años cuando fundé Microsoft. Steve Jobs tenía 21 cuando inició Apple. Mark Zuckerberg 19 cuando creó Facebook.

Por eso me emocionan los jóvenes emprendedores africanos que ponen en marcha nuevos negocios en los Silicon Savannah, desde Johannesburgo y Ciudad del Cabo, hasta Lagos y Nairobi.

Sin embargo, los resultados reales de toda esta inversión solo se materializarán si esta fuente de talento en busca de la innovación emana del conjunto de la población juvenil africana, cada vez más numerosa. Para ello, todos los jóvenes africanos deben tener la oportunidad de desarrollarse.

Si invertimos en las cosas necesarias, como asegurarnos de cubrir sus necesidades básicas, estos jóvenes podrán cambiar el futuro, y la vida de este continente mejorará más rápido que nunca hasta ahora.

Desde mi punto de vista, los cuatro factores de los que depende el futuro de África son: salud y nutrición, educación, oportunidad económica y un buen gobierno.

Ante problemas de salud, una persona no se detiene a pensar en temas como la educación, el trabajo y formar una familia. Ahora bien, cuando la salud mejora, la vida mejora sustancialmente.

Me preocupa especialmente el sida. La generación más joven de África se aproxima a la edad de mayor riesgo de contagio del sida. Tenemos que potenciar los métodos de prevención de los que ya disponemos, a la par que desarrollamos mejores soluciones, como una vacuna eficaz y medicinas fáciles de usar que la gente pueda tomar con mayores garantías de continuidad del tratamiento.

La nutrición es otro tema crucial para África. La malnutrición y el déficit de micronutrientes provocan la pérdida de potencial cognitivo y físico de millones de niños africanos. Por suerte, hay soluciones asequibles, como asegurarse de que las madres amamantan a sus bebés, enriquecer el aceite, azúcar y harina con vitaminas y minerales importantes, y manipular cultivos básicos para maximizar su contenido nutricional. Tenemos que garantizar que los núcleos en mayor riesgo conocen estas soluciones y tienen acceso a ellas.

En segundo lugar, necesitamos nuevas ideas y herramientas para asegurarnos de que cada niño tiene acceso a una educación de calidad. La tecnología educativa de los teléfonos móviles tiene potencial para ayudar a los alumnos a desarrollar habilidades básicas, a la vez que los profesores pueden ofrecer una mejor respuesta y ayuda con solo pulsar un botón. Los Gobiernos también deben invertir en universidades públicas de calidad para el que es el mayor número de estudiantes cualificados, de los que saldrá la próxima generación de científicos, emprendedores, educadores y líderes políticos.

En tercer lugar, es necesario crear oportunidades económicas para canalizar las energías e ideas de la juventud de África. Gracias al Programa General para el Desarrollo de la Agricultura en África, los países tienen un marco para transformar la agricultura, de modo que la práctica agrícola deje de ser un medio de subsistencia para convertirse en una emocionante oportunidad empresarial. Pero para que esto suceda, hay que invertir en los recursos para que los jóvenes africanos puedan poner en marcha la agricultura que tienen en mente.

África también necesita más energía eléctrica para aumentar la productividad. Sobre todo en África Oriental, los Gobiernos deberían invertir ya en fuentes de energía fiables y renovables, como las hidráulicas y geotérmicas. La prioridad inmediata para los Gobiernos es insistir en la propia gestión de sus redes eléctricas, para que produzcan cuanta más energía mejor.

Cuarto, los países pueden beneficiarse de la mejora en la administración fiscal. Los avances en la tecnología digital son una forma de que los Gobiernos puedan prestar servicios más eficazmente.

Todos somos conscientes de la envergadura y complejidad de estos retos. Pero África no deja nunca de demostrar su capacidad de resistencia e ingenio, y son millones de personas, especialmente jóvenes, las que están dispuestas a ponerse manos a la obra.

El futuro depende de que el pueblo africano trabaje unido para sentar las bases que permitan a los jóvenes de África acceder a las oportunidades que merecen. Este es el futuro con el que soñaba Nelson Mandela y es el futuro que merece la juventud de África.

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Bill Gates dona 5.000 millones de dólares al desarrollo de África

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La primera vez que hablé con Nelson Mandela fue en 1994, cuando me pidió ayuda para financiar las primeras elecciones multirraciales de Sudáfrica. No sucede todos los días que Nelson Mandela te llame, por eso lo recuerdo tan bien. Por aquel entonces yo dirigía Microsoft y el software ocupaba mi pensamiento prácticamente todo el día.

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Main causes of poor children in Africa. 

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Main causes of poor children in Africa. 

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In sub Sahara the mayority of people live under $ 1.90. The mayority of children in Africa and Asia live  in extreme poverty/ they are very poor.
In 2012 3.5 million children had lost their both parents in Africa

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Facts & Statistics About Poverty In Africa | Children International | Help African Kids in Need

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Get the facts and statistics about the broad challenges of poverty and hunger in Africa.

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https://www.compassion.com/donate/donate-to-children-in-africa.htm

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Donate to Children in Africa - Compassion International

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When you donate to help children in Africa your tax-deductible donation will release a child from poverty in Jesus’ name.

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Of all regions, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates of education exclusion. Over one-fifth of children between the ages of about 6 and 11 are out of school, followed by one-third of youth between the ages of about 12 and 14. According to UIS data, almost 60% of youth between the ages of about 1…

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Fundación Plan International España, CIF G-82895475 y domicilio en C/Pantoja nº 10. Inscrita en el Registro Único de Fundaciones con el número 28/1186, declarada como Fundación Benéfica de asistencia social por orden ministerial del 14/03/2001 y beneficiaria del régimen fiscal de las entidades sin fines lucrativos y de los incentivos fiscales al mecenazgo según aplicación del artículo 16 de la Ley 49/2002.

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ONG por la infancia y la igualdad de las niñas - Plan International España (plan-international.es)

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ONG por la infancia y la igualdad de las niñas - Plan International España (plan-international.es)

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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2007/10/why-is-africa-so-screwed-up/2072/                              Author: year:2007 Title: The Atlantic 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2007/10/why-is-africa-so-screwed-up/2072/                              Author: year:2007 Title: The Atlantic 

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I have been asked this question before by commenters pushing hard-line racial theories of IQ. From which it's clear that they really do believe in an innate theory of intelligence, because there is, after all, an extensive literature on the subject with which none of them seems to be familiar.

Yes, Asia had a colonial regime, and Africa had a colonial regime, but that doesn't make them the same continent. Asian colonization was nowhere near as extensive as African colonization, and my understanding is that it tended to rely much more on co-opting existing power structures than building entirely new ones. That's because Asia had existing power structures to co-opt--local imperial barons that controlled large amounts of land. Moreover, much of Asia was not, in fact, colonized: the biggest Asian success stories right now (China, Japan, Korea) had repeated incursions by Western interlopers, but were never colonized in the formal sense that Africa was. It's worth noting that the bits of Asia that were colonized tend to be in worse shapes than the bits that werent.

At any rate, there's a whole, very large literature on why Africa is particularly screwed up. The awful climate under which most of it labors. The bad maritime geography: apparently one of the two coasts offers extremely little scope for building ports, the rivers don't go where you want them, and when they do happen to meander near something interesting, they are hard to navigate. The huge patchwork of ethnicities. The bad borders--in Asia, borders were drawn somewhat along ethnic power lines, whereas in Africa, they were drawn mostly to suit the convenience of whatever western country wanted to do business there after the colonian powers left, and there is an emerging literature indicating that border that cut across ethnic lines are a recipe for conflict, and thus poverty. The unique medical problems of Africa--what with us having emerged there, the local bugs have had longer to develop a taste for us than elsewhere, and there are lots of reservoirs of new disease in our near genetic cousins. And that's just scratching the surface. Africa has a lot of unique factors that we've identified causing huge problems in other places, all squished together into a toxic cocktail.

It's not that it's impossible that IQ varies by race--but we've got a lot of other variables that can account for our problem, so why look to race first, last, and only?

Update Yup, those were typos; one Asia changed to Africa, and one India to Korea. Next time, coffee before blogging, not the other way around . . .

We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.

Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.

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I have been asked this question before by commenters pushing hard-line racial theories of IQ. From which it's clear that they really do believe in an innate theory of intelligence, because there is, after all, an extensive literature on the subject with which none of them seems to be familiar.

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La ong comenzo a trabajar en Etopia en 1974, y actualmente esta donando a 25 paises en el continente.Trabajan con los niños para acabar con la pobreza y que empiezen a respetar sus derechos.La ong dona 250 millones de dolares anuales .Bieden dono 500millones de dosis a África

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La ong comenzo a trabajar en Etopia en 1974, y actualmente esta donando a 25 paises en el continente.Trabajan con los niños para acabar con la pobreza y que empiezen a respetar sus derechos.La ong dona 250 millones de dolares anuales .Bieden dono 500millones de dosis a África

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La labor de nuestra ONG en África comenzó en Etiopía en 1974. Actualmente, Plan International está presente en 25 países del continente africano. Trabajamos con los niños, las niñas y sus comunidades para ayudarles a romper el círculo generacional de la pobreza y velar por el respeto de sus derechos.

DÓNDE TRABAJA LA ONG EN ÁFRICA

APADRINA UN NIÑO EN ÁFRICA

Apoya los proyectos de Plan International y apadrina un niño en África en alguno de los países en los que trabajamos.

Etiopía es el primer país en el que empezamos a trabajar en el continente africano y es también uno de los países donde puedes apadrinar un niño con Plan International, de ese modo puedes colaborar con nuestros proyectos y ayudar a los niños y niñas de ese país a salir de la pobreza.

Si te interesa saber cómo ser voluntario en una ONG, puedes colaborar con una ONG como Plan International formando parte de su voluntariado. Te damos toda la información necesaria para ser voluntario y te explicamos las formas en que puedes ayudar a los niños y niñas africanos a través de la ONG Plan International: hazte voluntario.

CÓMO TRABAJA PLAN INTERNAtIONAL EN ÁFRICA
Gracias al apadrinamiento ayudamos a 1,4 millones de niños y sus familias e indirectamente a millones de personas.
Las cifras de inversión de la ONG en África llegan a los más de 250 millones de dólares anuales en programas propios y apoyos a otros proyectos de cooperación en África.

PROYECTOS DE PLAN INTERNATIONAL EN ÁFRICA

Los proyectos de Plan International en África incluyen cinco líneas de acción:

Supervivencia y desarrollo: acceso igualitario a los servicios médicos de atención primaria, reducción de la mortalidad materna e infantil, acceso al agua potable y mejora en las condiciones sanitarias de las comunidades.

Protección y prevención: protección de los niños y niñas contra toda forma de abuso y concienciación de las comunidades, mejora de la situación económica de las familias a través de microcréditos y préstamos para asegurar el futuro de los niños y niñas.

Comunicación y participación: participación activa de los menores en los proyectos y programas de comunicación para difundir la voz de los niños, niñas y jóvenes de África.

Aprendizaje y defensa de los derechos: programas de educación para que los niños y niñas aprendan a hacer defender sus derechos y participar en las decisiones gubernamentales que afectan sus vidas.

Promoción de los buenos gobiernos: apoyo a grupos de niños, niñas y jóvenes para que se integren y participen activamente en la sociedad civil, y concienciación de las organizaciones gubernamentales locales sobre la importancia de trabajar con y para los niños y otros grupos marginados.

A través de distintas campañas de la ONG en África como Aprender Sin Miedo y el Registro de Nacimiento Universal, el trabajo de la ONG en África está mejorando significativamente el presente y el futuro de miles de niños sin acceso a la educación y a los servicios médicos básicos.

Siendo una ONG de ayuda al desarrollo en África, Plan International fomenta proyectos de ayuda humanitaria, de apoyo a la infancia e impulso de desarrollo en África. La educación en África es una de nuestras principales preocupaciones y trabajamos día a día por un futuro mejor para miles de niños y niñas africanos. ¿Te unes a nuestra causa?t

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ONG África | Por los niños de África | ONG Plan International

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La labor de nuestra ONG en África comenzó en Etiopía en 1974. Actualmente, Plan International está presente en 25 países del continente africano. Trabajamos con los niños, las niñas y sus comunidades para ayudarles a romper el círculo generacional de la pobreza y velar por el respeto de sus derechos.

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic. Read the facts & figures.

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 Medical Research found that one in three South African men admitted to committing rape.

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 Medical Research found that one in three South African men admitted to committing rape.

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The causes of being poor are grave in Africa children can die in a very young age. even in the richest countries in africa like 7 of the children are still poor.

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In recent years, the world has made remarkable strides advancing development. Yet hundreds of millions of people still live in extreme poverty. Children are disproportionately affected. Despite comprising one third of the global population, they represent half of those struggling to survive on less than $2.15 a day. An estimated 333 million children live in extreme poverty.

Children who grow up impoverished often lack the food, sanitation, shelter, health care and education they need to survive and thrive. Across the world, about 1 billion children are "multidimensionally" poor, meaning they lack necessities as basic as nutritious food or clean water.

The consequences are grave. Worldwide, the poorest children are twice as likely to die in childhood than their wealthier peers. For those growing up through humanitarian emergencies, the risks of deprivation and exclusion surge. Compounding crises - from the impacts of climate-related disasters, conflicts and COVID-19 - have stalled progress for the most vulnerable children. Even in the world's richest countries, one in seven children still live in poverty.

No matter where they are, children who grow up impoverished suffer from poor living standards, develop fewer skills for the workforce, and earn lower wages as adults. But only a limited number of Governments have set the elimination of child poverty as a national priority.

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Children are more likely to live in poverty than adults. They're also more vulnerable to its effects.

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https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/rights-of-children/

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Rights of Children and Youth - World Future Council

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Since 2014 our programme ‘The Rights of Children and Youth’ has been working to ensure that the rights of girls, boys and young people

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In Africa has poor resuorces at schools of the United Nation. They can´t learn so they can´t have a good job to earn money to mantain their lives of thier children. In sub Sahara in Africa about 59 million children beetween age 5-17 work instead of play study and be children. In Africa 2.9 million children are infected by HIV virus.

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic. Read the facts & figures.

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Children in Africa have not a very good life, they need to work a lot even as a kid!!
The African temperature makes there lifes more much harder and makes farming so harder.They probably don't have that much money so they don't have a place to live. This is formed because they don't have that many money.

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Facts & Statistics About Poverty In Africa | Children International | Help African Kids in Need

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Get the facts and statistics about the broad challenges of poverty and hunger in Africa.

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https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/child-rights-why-they-matter

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Discover the reasons for singling out children’s rights in its own human rights Convention

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https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/why-protect-childrens-rights

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The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had suffered under apartheid for many years. Some had been detained without trial, tortured and assaulted; many faced discrimination in healthcare, education and other areas.

Children need special protection because they are among the most vulnerable members of society. They are dependent on others - their parents and families, or the state when these fail - for care and protection.

As a result, the drafters of our Constitution have made children's rights a priority - and have stated that the best interests of a child are the overriding concern when it comes to any matter affecting him or her.
Section 28 - Children
Section 28 of the Bill of Rights, entitled "Children", says:

Every child has the right to -

a name and a nationality from birth;

family care or parental care, or to appropriate alternative care when removed from the family environment;

basic nutrition, shelter, basic health care services and social services;

be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse or degradation;

be protected from exploitative labour practices

not be required or permitted to perform work or provide services that -

are inappropriate for a person of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being, education, physical or mental health or spiritual, moral or social development;

not be detained except as a measure of last resort, in which case, in addition to the rights a child enjoys under sections 12 and 35, the child may be detained only for the shortest appropriate period of time, and has the right to be -

kept separately from detained persons over the age of 18 years; and

is treated in a manner, and kept in conditions, that take account of the child's age;

have a legal practitioner assigned to the child by the state, and at state expense, in civil proceedings affecting the child, if substantial injustice would otherwise result; and

not be used directly in armed conflict, and to be protected in times of armed conflict.

A child's best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child.

In this section 'child' means a person under the age of 18 years. This section gives children the right to a name, citizenship and some form of care. Children need food and shelter, and should be protected from abuse, neglect and degradation. No child should work when under-age, or do work that would interfere with his or her education or development.

Children should be jailed only as a last resort and should not have to share a cell with adults. They should not take part in wars and should be protected during conflict.

The second sub-section, a very important clause, says a child's interests are the most important consideration in any matter concerning the child.
Key Constitutional Court judgments that, directly or indirectly, have affirmed children's rights.
This case involved six juveniles who had been sentenced to receive "moderate correction" of a number of strokes with a light cane in terms of section 294 of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977.

The Constitutional Court had to decide whether the sentence of juvenile whipping was unconstitutional.

The Court declared corporal punishment unconstitutional on the ground that it violates dignity and it violates the right not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way. It found that juvenile whipping violated the dignity of the juvenile as well as that of the person administering the whipping.

The Constitutional Court declared section 294 unconstitutional. The effect of this is that whipping is no longer a punishment that the courts may impose.

Laurie Fraser was the unmarried father of a child put up for adoption by his former partner. The adoption application was granted by the Children's Court, but Fraser, who wanted to be able to adopt the child himself, applied to have it set aside.

The case concerned section 18(4)(d) of the Child Care Act of 1983, which required a Children's Court to obtain the consent of both parents before issuing an order for the adoption of a legitimate child, but dispensed with the need to obtain a father's consent for the adoption of his child born out of wedlock.

Legitimate children are those born of a marriage recognised by the state.

The Court held that this violated the right to equality. It discriminated against fathers in marriages contracted according to the rites of religions such as Islam and Hinduism, which were not recognised as marriages by the law.

But the Court said more consideration was needed before the section could be remedied and gave parliament two years to correct the defect.

Section 18(4)(f) of the Child Care Act of 1983, which prohibited the adoption of a child born in South Africa by people who were not South Africans, was held to be unconstitutional by the Cape High Court.

In the confirmation hearing in the Constitutional Court, Justice Goldstone held that the prohibition was inconsistent with section 28(2) of the Constitution, which required that the best interests of a child be paramount in every matter concerning the child.

The Court recognised that in some cases it might be in the best interests of a child born in South Africa to be adopted by non-South Africans. It confirmed the order of invalidity.

The question was whether Parliament, by prohibiting corporal punishment in all schools, had unconstitutionally limited the rights of parents of children in independent schools who, in line with their religious convictions, had consented to the "corporal correction" of their children by teachers.

An association of 196 Christian independent schools had argued that "corporal correction" was an integral part of the Christian ethos and that the prohibition imposed by section 10 of the Schools Act should be declared invalid.

Justice Sachs, on behalf of a unanimous court, assumed in the appellant's favour that religious and community rights had been limited. The question then was whether such limitation was justifiable in an open and democratic society.

The legislature had banned corporal punishment to protect schoolchildren from abuse. Such punishment had a special place in the ethos of this religious community, but its schools functioned in the public domain and the creation of uniform norms and standards was crucial to educational development.

the creation of uniform norms and standards was crucial to educational development. The Court also took into consideration the importance of the child's right to dignity and right to be free from all forms of violence.

Here parents were not being made to choose between obeying the law or following their conscience. They were being prevented from authorising teachers to fulfil what they regarded as their biblically ordained responsibilities.

The Court refused to grant an exemption that would allow corporal punishment in schools.

This case considered whether citizens could force the state to act positively to meet their social and economic (or "second-generation") rights.

In question was section 26 of the Constitution, which gave everyone the right of access to adequate housing, and section 28(1)(c), which afforded children the right to shelter.

Irene Grootboom, who brought the case, was one of 390 adults and 510 children living in appalling circumstances in Wallacedene informal settlement. The High Court had found that the children and, through them, their parents were entitled to shelter under section 28(1)(c).

The Constitutional Court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Yacoob, noted that the Constitution obliged the state to act positively to help people living in deplorable conditions. It had to provide housing, healthcare, sufficient food and water, and social security to those unable to support themselves and their dependants.

The Court stressed that the rights in the Bill of Rights were inter-related. Human dignity, freedom and equality were denied to those without food, clothing or shelter.

The Constitution recognised that this was an extremely difficult task and did not oblige the state to go beyond its available resources or to realise these rights immediately. But the state did have a duty to give effect to these rights progressively and to put in place reasonable legislative and other measures to meet the right.

The programme in force in the area at the time fell short of this obligation. The Court ordered the state to provide relief for those desperate people who had not been catered for.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and two other parties challenged the government's policy on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV - which permitted the use of Nevirapine at a limited number of pilot sites only. Nevirapine was to be provided free of charge to the South African government for a period of two years by its manufacturers.

The Constitutional Court said the question was whether the applicants had shown that the measures adopted by the government fell short of obligations under the Constitution.

The Court said conducting research did not justify delaying a comprehensive programme. The policy seriously affected a significant group of HIV-positive mothers and children who did not have access to the research sites and were effectively denied access to a potentially life-saving medical intervention.

The Court said provision of a single dose of nevirapine was essential as far as children were concerned. The needs of children were the most urgent and the state was obliged to ensure that children were accorded the protection contemplated by section 28 of the Bill of Rights.

The Court declared the policy unconstitutional and ordered the government to remove the restrictions on nevirapine and to permit and facilitate its use where medically indicated.

It also ordered that the government make provision for the training of counsellors and take reasonable measures to extend testing and counselling facilities.
New Legislation
The Bill of Rights is not the only instrument the law uses to guard children's rights. Legislation that provides specific protection for children includes:

the Child Care Act of 1983, which makes it a criminal offence if a person who has to maintain a child doesn't provide the child with clothes, housing and medical care;

the Basic Conditions of Employment Act of 1997, which makes it illegal to employ a child under 15;

the Domestic Violence Act of 1998, which defines different forms of domestic violence and explains how a child can get a protection order against the abuser; and

the Films and Publications Act of 1996, which protects children from exploitation in child pornography.

One example of new legislation passed in response to a Constitutional Court ruling - in this case, the Fraser judgment - is the Natural Fathers of Children Born out of Wedlock Act of 1997.

It gives natural unmarried fathers - including those whose marriages are not recognised by the state, for example Muslim and Hindu marriages - the statutory right to go to court to ask for access, custody or guardianship of their children. The interests of the children are seen as most important in deciding on custody or access to children.

The Children's Bill, which went before Parliament in 2003, is meant to replace the Child Care Act of 1983. It aims to provide a holistic approach to the rights of all children.

To read further click the link below: http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/
yourrights/knowyourrights-childrensrights.htm

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The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had suffered under apartheid for many years. Some had been detained without trial, tortured and assaulted; many faced discrimination in healthcare, education and other areas.

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https://www.humanium.org/en/south-africa/

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Why they don't have so many rights respected?

They don't have so many rights respected or I would even say there are none at all , because they can not eat until 1 year or more , they can't be very healthy because they don't have a lot of money and can't go to the hospital .

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6 causes for the poverty in Africa - SOS Children's Villages USA (sos-usa.org)

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic

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On the poorest continent, the plight of children is dramatic. Read the facts & figures.

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Main Causes of poor children in Africa. 

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Main Causes of poor children in Africa. 

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The Causes And Impacts Of Poverty In Africa | ipl.org
The Causes And Impacts Of Poverty In Africa | ipl.org
children in Africa are poor is caused by coruption poor governence poor land, diseases and bad health.

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Today is 23/2/2022 and we already finish our first meeting . We decide our organization . We have to finish : checklist week 1 , learner profile attribute , reflection .