Children of Africa: living conditions, health, education

Many have heard that the children of Africa grow under adverse conditions. Mortality is high due to hunger. And this is in the 21st century, full of worldly goods, when, going to the corner of the house, a person can buy in the store almost everything you need. On the current situation on the continent and how the children live and grow there, we learn later from the article.

A tremendous decline

The Human Rights Protection Organization "Save the Children" prepared a report according to which the mainland Africa is indeed considered the most unfavorable place for the upbringing of new generations. Life is hard in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mali, as well as in other countries.

Each of the eight children appearing in the world dies before they reach their first birthday. 1/10 of women die from childbirth. Also, the level of education is very low. Only 10% of female representatives are trained in writing and reading and writing.

Clean water is available to only a quarter of the citizens. So everyone who periodically complains about life can simply imagine the conditions of existence of these people. Small children of Africa die before reaching 6-10 years of age, because they simply do not have food and clean water.

Indifference and orphanhood

Many live simply on the streets, because their parents met death from malaria, AIDS or another disease, and there is simply no one to follow the babies. There are a lot of beggars here. Tourists sometimes get annoyed and frightened, but it's worth remembering that African children are sticking to people not in order to annoy, but only out of a desire to survive. They would have helped even a piece of bread.

They are deprived of the happy joys of childhood, which our first-born, who are taken to zoos, New Year trees, dolphinariums and shops with toys, will learn. The tribes are trying to support the younger generation, because they will have to take care of the elderly in the future, but it is not always possible to keep the big offspring.

The breastfeeding period lasts a long time here. The children of Africa do not know much about the stroller, playground, school. Environmental management of the environment remains for them a dark gap in knowledge. Around them is only poverty and meager living conditions.

Negligent treatment

Infants here are worn on their backs or hips, tied like a cullet, not on their hands. Often you can see how a woman goes to the bazaar or to another place, drags a bag on her head, rides a bicycle, while carrying her child. The fleeting impulses of the heirs are not taken into account.

For example, in our latitudes, if your son or daughter sees something interesting on the street, you will surely stop and let them see what is there. The continent of Africa lives by several other laws. If the kid wants to go somewhere, no one will specifically bring him there, he will have to crawl on his own. Due to what, for sure, physically will be more developed than the kids, who move only within the apartment.

Also, there is rarely a capricious crying here. Just because it does not help attract the attention of parents.

Wild customs

The life of a child is valued extremely low. They protect the elderly more, because the written language is poorly developed, knowledge is transmitted only by means of language. So every long-liver is worth its weight in gold.

There are terrible stories about how the children of Africa were sacrificed in order to cajole the gods and prolong the lives of the elderly. The child is usually stolen in the village next door. Especially popular in these purposes are the twins. Up to five years, fragile creatures here are treated with contempt and do not consider people to be. Do not use the certificate of death and birth.

In Uganda, sacrifices have become common practice and no one has been surprised for a long time. People have come to terms with the fact that a child can be beaten or even killed at the exit to the street.

Scale

Africa's starving children are victims of a humanitarian disaster . It suffers 11.5 million people, according to data collected by international organizations. This is most clearly manifested in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. A total of 2 million children are starving. Of these, 500 thousand are close to death. One-fourth of the population receives less food.

More than 40% of toddlers who have not reached the age of 5 are depleted due to poor nutrition. Children in Africa do not have the opportunity to get an education. The schools give only the basics, which in our countries are already known in the initial groups of kindergartens. Rarely is the ability to read and write. This is enough for a person to be called enlightened. They study the account on pebbles, and sit right on the street under the baobabs.

Families with a relatively high income give their children to schools intended only for whites. Even if the state supports the institution to visit it, you still need to pay at least $ 2,000 per year. But this gives at least some guarantee that, after studying there, a person will be able to enter the university.

If we talk about the villages, the situation there is very much deplorable. Instead of learning the world, girls become pregnant, and boys become alcoholics. Starving children of Africa against the background of such deplorable conditions are doomed to death from birth. About means of contraception know very little, therefore in families on 5-12 children. Due to this, although mortality is high, the population is growing.

Low value of human life

Demographic processes here are chaotic. It's not normal when children are already having sex in 10 years. A survey was conducted, during which it was found out that in the case of AIDS, 17% of children would specifically infect others.

In our realities, it is difficult even to imagine the savagery in which children grow, practically losing their human appearance.

If a child survives to 6 years old, he can already be called a lucky beggar. Because most mice dysentery and malaria, lack of food. If his parents are also alive until this moment - this is repeated miracles.

Men on average die at 40, and women die at 42. There are almost no white elders. Of the 20 million Ugandan citizens, 1.5 million are orphans, who have become so because of malaria and AIDS.

Accommodations

Children live in huts made of bricks with a corrugated roof. During the rain, the water gets inside. Places are extremely small. Instead of the kitchen in the yard there are ovens, charcoal is expensive, so many enjoy the branches.

Washrooms are used by several families at once. Around the slums are located. On the money that both parents can earn, it is simply unrealistic to rent a house. Girls are not sent here because they believe that they do not need education, because everything they are suitable for is the care of the house, the birth of children, the cooking of food or the work of a maid, a waitress or any other servant of a black work. If the family has the opportunity, then the education will give the boy.

The situation is better in South Africa, where there is a rapid development. The help to the children of Africa here is expressed in investments in educational processes. 90% of children get knowledge in schools without fail. It's both boys and girls. 88% of citizens are literate. However, much more needs to be done to improve the situation in the villages.

What is it worth to work on?

Progress in the educational system began in 2000 after the forum in Dakar. Much attention should be paid to education, and in general to the preservation of the life of preschool children.

They must eat right, get medicine, be under social protection. At the moment, little attention is paid to babies. The households are impoverished, and parents themselves do not know very much. Although the trends and positive, today's level is still not enough. Frequent cases when, getting to school, children quickly throw it.

Bloody story

International Day is the Children's Day of Africa, which is celebrated on June 16th. It was founded in 1991 by the Organization of African Unity.

It was introduced so that politicians around the world paid attention to this problem. We chose this day, because in 1976, on June 16, in South Africa, 10,000 black girls and boys formed a column and marched through the streets, protesting the current situation in the sphere of education. They demanded the provision of knowledge in the national language. The authorities reacted to this attack without understanding and shot demonstrators. The excitement did not cease for another two weeks. People did not want to put up with such an injustice.

As a result of further disturbances, about a hundred people died, and a thousand were wounded and injured. This marked the beginning of an uprising in which many sections of the population who participated in the strikes were involved. The system of apartheid collapsed already in 1994, when Nelson Mandela came to power .