United Nations Millennium Goals: Reducing Child Mortality

The issue that I choose to dissect and do a little research about is the reducing child mortality. The really awesome thing is in Ethopia they have found ways to reduce it! It’s been said that most kids in sub-Saharen Africa and Southern Asia die at the age of 5 (before their 5th birthday). I honestly couldn’t imagine what life would be like for those countries, and it’s basically because they don’t have a health care or type of hospital to take their children to if they get sick. Seeing these decreasing numbers is great, but numbers are increasing in deaths of babies around their first month of being born. How can we help this situation? I’d like to say that their should be more schools set up, so that education is available and in time there can be more doctors and nurses in these countries that need them. Also for each city to have a couple or at least one doctor/nurse to help with this situation of sick children. But what can we do NOW? Well, we could have volunteered doctors go to these cities that are seeking a doctor’s help. Although they wouldn’t get paid (or maybe we could create a program that they could get paid for their time in other countries) they would be helping an issue that has been a problem for years and years to come.
I’m not quite sure if the severity of this issue really applies to Springfield or my own neighborhood. I work at Price Cutter so I do so people that don’t have enough money for something essential, or simply have to use all of their change to buy something. People come in and pay with food stamps all the time too. I’ve seen one or two people that I could say are struggling, and it’s a very sad thing. Most of these people were adults, but what if they did have kids? They can’t even support themselves so there’s no way they’d be able to support themselves and a child.
    I wasn’t interested in this topic at first I was just choosing one so I could get this assignment done and move on to the rest of my Saturday. Although I have to say it sparked an interest in me. We had a charity thing going on at Price Cutter during the holidays where you could spend $1, $3 or $5 and donate that money to kids that need food. Each dollar amount was a different number of meals that it provided. I’m kind of kicking myself for not actually donating to that organization myself. I don’t think we really think of these issues that go on until we read about them ourselves. Now I’m thinking twice about this issue and I don’t think I would have if I didn’t read about it.