Position Paper on Child Survival 1. INTRODUCTION Save the Children is a child focused organisation that delivers immediate and lasting improvements in children’s lives. The organisation is committed to improve the health status of children in India and protect them from exploitation‚ abuse and ill health. In the current context‚ Save the Children’s primary focus is on supporting the system in accelerating the progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4 aimed at one-third reduction in child
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The continuous dilemma of abused children is a serious social and family problem. Even more in a country where the rules are subject to bureaucracy‚ red tape‚ and depravity. Third world nations are facing booming massive population‚ thus‚ more crimes that include abused children who are not given enough attention and aid. The hard impact of the unsolved problems becomes long dreadful to the society’s moral. The prolonged problem that left behind the deaf ears of the authorities‚ government‚ and non-government
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Danielle Shubert November 6‚ 2012 History 202 Response #8 What was life like for children and why were they known as box car kids during the Depression? The Depression occurred as a result of an economic collapse that began in 1929. Unemployment went from 3 million in 1929 to 12.5 million by 1932. This eventually led to families not being able to make ends meet. Nationwide families were becoming homeless. Multiple different families lived in one room shacks. Others that weren’t so fortunate
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Dixon 1 Critical Analysis Paper: There Are No Children Here Arena L. Dixon YNL 290 Murray State University Dr. Roger Weis November 2009 Dixon 2 Henry Horner Projects was the stage in the lives of the Rivers’ family as it was for many of the people who lived there. It was like its’ very existence dictated the lives of the occupants. Families raised their families there and those children grew up to raise their children there too and it was commonplace. If that wasn’t enough the families
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Annotated Bibliography Boyse‚ Kyla. RN. Television and Children. YourChild Development & Behavior Resources. University of Michigan Health System. August 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. . This article is about television the monumental effect it has on children. The articles also touches down on how it effects brain development‚ causes aggressive behavior‚ traumatizes kids‚ effects performance in school‚ influences attitudes‚ and how it effects child’s health. The author does a good job of using facts
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Cynthia Bryson Benjamin Pressley ENG 111 November 14‚ 2011 Effects of Children Watching Too Much Television How many hours a week do you think you spend watching television? According to a study done by the A.C. Neilson Company‚ the average American spends four hours watching television (“Television”). Generally‚ children watch even more than four hours a week (“How TV Affects Your Child”). Watching this much television can have serious impacts on a child’s health and development (“Colina”)
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We should all provide food for the poor. So many families die every day of starvation while we waste our food. Everyone needs food‚ otherwise how are we meant to survive? If we don’t have food to keep us moving and staying healthy it’s not possible to work and make a living for ourselves and our families. Everyone should have the right to live a healthy life especially when there are tonnes of food being wasted every year. Thousands of people are dying because of hunger. People become less productive
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number of poor people in Europe in the 15th through 17th centuries. There were varied attitudes and reactions towards those in poverty. The attitudes towards the poor included people feeling it was their duty and responsibility to help them‚ some people felt anger or resentment towards the poor for being “lazy”‚ and some had a religious incentive to help those in poverty. Some people’s responses were to help the poor to the best of their abilities‚ others to criticize and deprecate the poor‚ and some
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The Growing Income Gap between the Rich and Poor In the United States the income gap between the rich and the poor is at an all time high. This fact is very strange to me because I hear President Bush claim that there are so many new jobs available‚ the unemployment rate is down‚ interest rates are low‚ and inflation is going down. These two claims seem contradictory to me‚ and in my paper I will hope to find out why the income gap is so high when President Bush claims the economy is doing so well
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Obesity in children is a serious issue‚ with many health and social consequences that often continue into adulthood. An attempt is made here to help promote healthy campaigns and prevention strategies. Obesity in children and adolescents is a serious issue‚ with many health and social consequences that often continue into adulthood. An attempt is made here to study the nature and causes of obesity in children. Initial focus is on the origins of obesity; how family eating patterns‚ environmental
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