India is home to the South’s highest poverty rate. The challenge this county faces is unique in an all aspects as they face poverty in both high and low regions of the land. The poverty associated with this country covers all spectrums of struggle such as education, health, skills, and economic growth. India’s high rates of communicable diseases, malnutrition, and maternal and prenatal illnesses, are predominant among poor people. The fast rates of non- communicable diseases, while rapid urbanization is resulting in new health problems, such as HIV/AIDS. Children of India also face severe poverty as an estimated 400 million children 0-18 make up the population. Nearly half of the children in India are malnourished or born significantly underweight. The 20% of the world’s children out of school come from India and girls are less significant. In fact girls make up almost 68% of the work force in India (Marshall). Boys are regarded as highly favorable and are encourage attending both primary and secondary school.
Although, India faces such a crisis in poverty they are making strides in reducing the spectrum that is associated with it. Important achievements have been made in health and education. Infant mortality fell from 80 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 69 in 2000. The enrolment of primary school-aged children rose from 68 percent in 1992/1993 to 82 percent at the end of the decade (Marshall). At last India’s government is implementing programs such as the largest food subsidy programmed, which is explicitly targeted towards the poor. In essence, the life for children and the people of India are hard and unimaginable in a world that associates poverty with food stamps and EEO housing.
Marshall, J. (n.d.). Childhood poverty research and policy centre. Retrieved from http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/
Hi Michele,
ReplyDeleteIndia has many challenges to overcome poverty. It is hard to understand the lack of importance of females. However it used to be that way here. Did any international colleagues contact you? I still have not heard from any.
Lucinda
Yes I heard from one Claudia in Germany and she stated she encouraged her education experts to contact us and that they had another class contact them prior to us, but she said that the education experts told her they were to busy to reply to us. Hello if your name is on the point of contact aren't you the boss?!! Other than that no and I contacted all together 9 individuals and I only had two retuen addresses so all I can say is honestly were not in it together if you cannot even return a simple email to a grad student. Really annoyed with the response and than the no responses.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this information about India! I am amazed that 50% of children are malnourished and uneducated. Here in America we attempt to focus on educating children and families about health and development of children, but in India I wonder how they are going to solve the issue if they are not educating their children in a school settling. My hearts go out to the children out there and here in America that are not informed about child development and the resources available to them to help them address their individual struggles.
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