martes, 18 de diciembre de 2007

Education right for everybody

How do the children live in the world?

Have you ever thought how lucky you are because you go to school and you live in a house with current water? There are a lot of children in the world who can’t say the same thing.
Most of them have to work, others have a nomadic life or live in countries in war. But all of them need love and attention, and have the right of education and of a worthy life, like yours.

But:

Around the world, 5 children are born in a second. But some countries say that they don’t receive the same education and the same cares.
And, 12 million children die every year before the age of 5, because of the need of food and medicaments, and the UNICEF experts (United Nations for childhood) give the total number of exploited children (250 millions) a scaring data. The biggest part of these children, live in Asia (India has 50 millions), Africa counts even more, in proportion, because 1 child of 3 works, against 1 of 4 in Asia and 1 of 5 in Latin America.
In the most part of the activities done by children, there are many risks of quick health deterioration. The use of chemical products in the shoe’s factory, silverware and textile but agriculture poisons the fragile organism of children too. In the carpets or weaving’s industry, children are crowded in dark rooms polluted by wool dust. They damage their eyes and their lungs. The children, who work as chiffoniers, have skin problems. They can cut themselves and contract the tetanus. The children who work for construction have growing unrests because of the too heavy charges. The children who work as miners are exposed to silicosis. The children who have to become prostitutes can contract the SIDA. The biggest part of them is condemned to be illiterates the rest of their lives, because they don’t go to school. They’re isolated, often deprived of their family; they have an enormous need of affection, which can have consequences in the future.
Working children (from 5 to 6 years old) live in the worst conditions and are the object of abuses of all sorts.
They’re obliged to work to survive and help their family, that’s why most of them don’t go to school. When they grow up, they’re angry and thirsty but they survive, they have dangerous and bad-paid jobs, , and domestic work turned into slavery, but they survive, they will be illiterates… an unacceptable reality, because it puts them in an unequal position.

We must have conscience off the necessity of an education for everybody and act, keeping the Gandhi’s sentence:” poverty is the biggest pollution source”.

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