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Posts Tagged ‘children’
Natural disasters, Politics, Dec 17th, 2011,
A million children living in the Sahel countries are at risk of famine or dramatic malnutrition in 2012. This is two times more than today, warned the United Nations Fund for Children. Famine threatens children in Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mauritania and Mali and the northern territories of Nigeria and Cameroon, said David Gressly, regional director of UNICEF responsible for the countries in West and Central Africa. In 2011 in the region half a million children suffered from extreme malnutrition. In the Sahel countries, a drought caused lack of water in the tanks, its levels also decreased in the…
Tags: Africa, children, drought, famine, malnutrition, Sahel
Videos & Documentaries, Oct 24th, 2011,
Last night on CNN I watched a series of programs on human trafficking, a subject I’ve studied and posted about before. Simply put, human trafficking is slavery. Most slaves are children and women who are poor and vulnerable, but the victims of human trafficking can be anyone, regardless of class, location, age, gender or ethnicity. The illegal trade of human beings is a widespread, multibillion-dollar industry that most people know nothing or next to nothing about. Yet there are now more slaves than at any time in the history of the world. Human trafficking has insidiously inserted itself into the…
Tags: children, human trafficking, not my life, prostitution, slavery, women
Green living, Health, Weird Stuff, Sep 16th, 2010,
Twitter wants to make a change and yesterday marked the beginning of that change. Between September 15th and 25th, you can take part in the big TwitChange auction event. Users get to bid on their favorite celebrities. Winners of the auction will be followed by their celebrity choice, have a tweet of theirs retweeted by the celebrity, and may even be mentioned by the celebrity in their own special tweet! Oh yes, and there is more. Different celebrities are also offering some extra goodies to their winning package, though you’ll have to check their personal twitter pages to find out…
Tags: A House in Haiti, celebrity auction, children, earthquake victims, eBay, Haiti, orphans, TwitChange, twitter
Health, Aug 17th, 2010,
The diet of the West, high in animal products, fat, salt and sugar, is increasingly associated with wealth and development. The growing middle and upper classes in China are causing meat consumption to skyrocket in that country. Those with more disposable income in characteristically poor places buy more imported, packaged and processed foods, which all tend to be higher in salt, sugar and fat. Meat becomes more of a staple than a luxury. In contrast, the poor of the developing world generally eat traditional diets that are high in fruit and vegetables. In the West it’s the opposite. The cheapest…
Tags: Africa, allergies, bacteria, children, developing, diet, disease, European, fat, food, guy, heath, meat, microbial, poor, rich, salt, study, sugar, vegetables, Western
Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 4th, 2010,
Over 230 people have been killed and 110 injured in Sange, a village in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when an oil tanker exploded, setting the village on fire. The blast occurred late Friday evening after the tanker – en route from Tanzania –overturned and began leaking oil. The tanker had been trying to pass a bus on a dirt road in Sange. Villagers gathered around to collect some of the leaking fuel, which is a valuable commodity in the Congo. The fuel had already leaked and spread over a large portion of the village…
Tags: children, Congo, Democratic, fire, fuel, killed, Kivu, oil, Province, Republic, Sange, South, tanker, village
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 20th, 2010,
Poor agricultural yields associated with climate change have forced some villagers in northern Nigeria to turn to other ways of survival. Many residents of this desperately poor region have turned to gold mining. But due to the high concentrations of lead found in the earth alongside potential gold deposits, people – especially children – are being poisoned. Factors such as intense poverty, increasingly unfavorable conditions for farming and soaring gold prices have combined and spurred residents of the Nigerian state of Zamfara into searching for gold along the border with neighboring Niger. Gold extraction here is a rudimentary and unsafe…
Tags: children, gold, lead, mining, Nigeria, poisoning, poor, Zamfara
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Politics, Apr 20th, 2010,
Diarrhea related illnesses are generally preventable and easily treatable, yet 1.5 million children in Africa still die every year from diarrhoeal diseases. 85 children die every day from such diseases in Kenya alone, according to the below video report from Al Jazeera English. Diarrhoeal illnesses are easily treated with rehydration salts and fluids. The diseases are often water-borne and usually associated with poor sanitation. Many of the victims are children of poor families in the developing world, where many parents aren’t informed about the symptoms of dehydration or how to treat diarrhea. Simple and inexpensive water treatment with bleach along…
Tags: Africa, Al Jazeera, children, cholera, diarrhea, diarrhoeal, die, diseases, illnesses, Kenya, water
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Apr 8th, 2010,
Southern China is suffering through the worst drought in living memory. Conditions are particularly bad in the normally sub-tropical province of Yunnan, which now resembles a desert. Dried up lakes reveal desiccated aquatic animals – an eerie portent to the alarming natural and human disaster to come if the drought continues. From an article in the Guardian: Today, it [Yunnan] joins 310 reservoirs, 580 rivers and 3,600 pools that have been baked dry by a once-in-a-century drought that is evaporating drinking supplies, devastating crops and stirring up political tensions over dam construction, monoculture plantations and cross-border water management in south-east…
Tags: children, China, drought, government, Southern, southwest, Yunnan
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Politics, Pollution, Mar 19th, 2010,
Smelting factories near villages in rural China are poisoning local Children with illegal heavy metal emissions. Authorities in Hunan province have even imprisoned victims of lead poisoning who were on their way to receive health checks, according to an article in the Guardian: The latest results, received on 24 February, revealed that 250 of the 397 children in the village had excess levels of lead in their blood. The victims included four of the five children of Liao Mingxiu, one of those still in police detention. Reports of thousands of children in China being affected have surfaced over the past…
Tags: children, China, factories, lead, poisoning, village
Green living, Recycling, Jan 15th, 2010,
Recycling can seem like a lot of work to some, especially if you’re a little kid. There’s cleaning, sorting and separating, hauling (sometimes rather heavy containers), and so forth. Thankfully, the people at Ooomy Design came up with a solution for this: Recycly waste receptacles. These recycle bins encourage kids to recycle by making it a fun activity to do and they’re also shaped like garden robots. There are 3 Recycly bins in a full set and each bin will display a colored light show, depending on what recyclable item is put in them. Paper bins will light up blue,…
Tags: children, Oomy Design, recycle bins, Recycling, Recycly, waste receptacles, ways to make recycling fun for kids
Climate Change, Pollution, Nov 5th, 2009,
When you were younger, did you have to go through the dread of riding the bus to school? And if you have kids, do they have to suffer through the same? Cramped seating, screaming children and one very ticked off bus driver do not make for a pleasant travel experience, especially back and forth from one of the most stressful places of a young person’s life: school. To make the experience even more pleasant, an idling school bus can cause quite a bit of pollution and other problems, particularly asthmatic ones. In New York City, for example, there are a…
Tags: asthma, black carbon, children, Health, Pollution, school bus
Climate Change, Pollution, Sep 10th, 2009,
BBC News Channel headlines feature yet another segment highlighting environmental troubles in China. Two separate smelting plants have been closed recently after government crackdowns in response to protests from angry parents. One smelter in Shaanxi province was shut after 600 children were found to have severe lead poisoning. Only days later a second closed in Wugang city, Hunan province, thought to be responsible for emissions causing over 1,300 children to fall ill. That’s 70% of the population of those less than 14 years of age in four villages situated close to the smelter. The promised government relocation of villagers to…
Tags: children, China, lead poisoning
