The Founder of ICROSS Dr Michael Meegan gave a series of talks recently on global health and the changes in World poverty. Here are some extracts from a lecture on “ the rise of poverty in a rich world “
“We are divided just think about this for a moment the 200 richest people in the World own more than the 400 million poorest and 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4% of global exports. Worse still According to the World bank the 500 richest people in the world own more than 50% of humanity.
50,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the conscience of the world. Being powerless and vulnerable in life makes these dying people even more invisible in death. That is about 210,000 children each week, or almost 11,000,000 children under age 5, each year. “
“ Its easy to get lost in the numbers the figures are overwhelming. 1.3 billion have no access to clean water; 3 billion have no access to sanitation; over a third of the planet have no access to electricity.”
“Think about our priorities here , 12% of the world's population uses 85% of its water. These 12% do not live in the Third World.”
This is why ICROSS and our partners remain committed to fighting poverty and the engines that drive the causes of poverty and suffering . unless we understand the forces and realities behind the numbers we simply observe the inevitable cycles and patterns that generate inequality. Unless the numbers become real people in our hearts we will watch them die. “
We will be sharing more extracts from lectures by Dr Michael Meegan throughout 2011.
Showing posts with label Poverty facts Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poverty facts Africa. Show all posts
Saturday, April 16, 2011
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ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa
ICROSS PROJECTS 2011-2012 Making a difference in Africa
more on
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
The United Nations, has set a series of targets to end world poverty and hunger. The gap between the rich and poor causes over 50,000 children to die from preventable diseases cause by poverty everyday.
These millennium goals are the gold standard we are all aiming for. for more facts about Global Poverty and the reasons why ICROSS focuses on these areas, please see here.
1.WOMEN
92% of the women who die in pregnancy and childbirth, live in the poor world. The life expectancy of rural women in sub-Saharan Africa is 40% less than in Western Europe. The challenges are enormous. ICROSS has a number of long-range programs to improve the health and well being of women.
a) Maternal Health Care;
We have been developing long-term maternal health programmes since 1980. Together with institutions around the world, we have developed training programmes for mothers in their local language through their traditional belief systems. As part of strengthening women’s health, we have developed over 200 women’s groups and set up training systems within local communities led by the mothers, grandmothers and traditional birth attendants
b) Maternity Units
Through our network of clinics and health facilities, supporting pastoralist communities, we are going to build maternity units across the rift valley. This will allow us to protect women. For more information, please click here.
c) Safe Motherhood
d) Reproductive Health/Family Planning
With over a billion people living in the Sub-Sahara, many living in extreme poverty, family planning is critical to break the poverty trap. ICROSS provides choice, contraception, family planning alternatives and culturally appropriate reproductive health care.
e) Nutrition
In 2011, over 40% of young Maasai mothers are anemic. ICROSS health programmes are working with hundreds of villages ensuring that young mothers receive proper nutrition monitoring and home support [LINK]
2. CHILDREN
The poorest children on earth live in rural Sub-Sahara. Over 80% of starvation and ¾ of preventable deaths occur in this region. In many areas, 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday. The suffering facing these children can be stopped. The gap between a child born in rural Africa and Western Europe has never been bigger. ICROSS has been developing effective ways of improving child health for over three decades [ICROSS research page]
a) Primary Health Care
All ICROSS clinics provide comprehensive primary care to children in the homes and schools. This includes immunizing against the main six killer diseases; Tuberculosis, diphtheria, Whooping cough, polio, meningitis and tetanus, monitoring the growth of infants, nutritional support to malnourished children. For 16 years, ICROSS has pioneered innovations, finding new ways to improve drinking water for children and reduce diarrhea infections [LINK to RCSI SODIS research]. We are developing new ways to prevent blindness from Trachoma. Our child survival programme has reached over 200,000 children since it began in 1984.
3. HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
Most of the worlds HIV victims live in Africa. The vast majority of all AIDS death occurs in the Sub-Sahara. Over 14 million children have been orphaned by AIDS; 2 million in Kenya alone. The AIDS crisis in Africa continues to be devastating [LINK]. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, ICROSS has been proactive in developing culturally sensitive interventions and awareness programmes. Since our early work identifying the local needs [LINK], we have been developing long-range solutions to complex issues of sexual behavior.
a) Prevention and Health Promotion encouraging Safe Sex. Over 20 years, ICROSS has implemented care of HIV/AIDS patients in their own homes across many districts in Kenya (each of these districts is larger than a European country) [LINK]. We have provided home-based care to over 4000 victims of AIDS. [LINK]
b) AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children
For two decades, ICROSS has worked with local communities. We help children remain in their own tribal communities keeping them in their own social structure. We believe that orphaned children need to be part of the community and not institutionalized. We have developed culturally sensitive approaches to responding to individual needs where the children are people and not statistics. We provide practical help, education and support local community initiatives.
c) TB
ICROSS has been working with the ministry of health in many districts, strengthening the local resources and ability to respond to the increasing threat of drug resistant tuberculosis.
d) Malaria
ICROSS has a dynamic Malaria prevention project
download our latest report.
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/malaria/features/2287-10-facts-on-malaria-in-africa.html
more on
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
The United Nations, has set a series of targets to end world poverty and hunger. The gap between the rich and poor causes over 50,000 children to die from preventable diseases cause by poverty everyday.
These millennium goals are the gold standard we are all aiming for. for more facts about Global Poverty and the reasons why ICROSS focuses on these areas, please see here.
1.WOMEN
92% of the women who die in pregnancy and childbirth, live in the poor world. The life expectancy of rural women in sub-Saharan Africa is 40% less than in Western Europe. The challenges are enormous. ICROSS has a number of long-range programs to improve the health and well being of women.
a) Maternal Health Care;
We have been developing long-term maternal health programmes since 1980. Together with institutions around the world, we have developed training programmes for mothers in their local language through their traditional belief systems. As part of strengthening women’s health, we have developed over 200 women’s groups and set up training systems within local communities led by the mothers, grandmothers and traditional birth attendants
b) Maternity Units
Through our network of clinics and health facilities, supporting pastoralist communities, we are going to build maternity units across the rift valley. This will allow us to protect women. For more information, please click here.
c) Safe Motherhood
d) Reproductive Health/Family Planning
With over a billion people living in the Sub-Sahara, many living in extreme poverty, family planning is critical to break the poverty trap. ICROSS provides choice, contraception, family planning alternatives and culturally appropriate reproductive health care.
e) Nutrition
In 2011, over 40% of young Maasai mothers are anemic. ICROSS health programmes are working with hundreds of villages ensuring that young mothers receive proper nutrition monitoring and home support [LINK]
2. CHILDREN
The poorest children on earth live in rural Sub-Sahara. Over 80% of starvation and ¾ of preventable deaths occur in this region. In many areas, 1 in 5 children die before their 5th birthday. The suffering facing these children can be stopped. The gap between a child born in rural Africa and Western Europe has never been bigger. ICROSS has been developing effective ways of improving child health for over three decades [ICROSS research page]
a) Primary Health Care
All ICROSS clinics provide comprehensive primary care to children in the homes and schools. This includes immunizing against the main six killer diseases; Tuberculosis, diphtheria, Whooping cough, polio, meningitis and tetanus, monitoring the growth of infants, nutritional support to malnourished children. For 16 years, ICROSS has pioneered innovations, finding new ways to improve drinking water for children and reduce diarrhea infections [LINK to RCSI SODIS research]. We are developing new ways to prevent blindness from Trachoma. Our child survival programme has reached over 200,000 children since it began in 1984.
3. HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
Most of the worlds HIV victims live in Africa. The vast majority of all AIDS death occurs in the Sub-Sahara. Over 14 million children have been orphaned by AIDS; 2 million in Kenya alone. The AIDS crisis in Africa continues to be devastating [LINK]. Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, ICROSS has been proactive in developing culturally sensitive interventions and awareness programmes. Since our early work identifying the local needs [LINK], we have been developing long-range solutions to complex issues of sexual behavior.
a) Prevention and Health Promotion encouraging Safe Sex. Over 20 years, ICROSS has implemented care of HIV/AIDS patients in their own homes across many districts in Kenya (each of these districts is larger than a European country) [LINK]. We have provided home-based care to over 4000 victims of AIDS. [LINK]
b) AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children
For two decades, ICROSS has worked with local communities. We help children remain in their own tribal communities keeping them in their own social structure. We believe that orphaned children need to be part of the community and not institutionalized. We have developed culturally sensitive approaches to responding to individual needs where the children are people and not statistics. We provide practical help, education and support local community initiatives.
c) TB
ICROSS has been working with the ministry of health in many districts, strengthening the local resources and ability to respond to the increasing threat of drug resistant tuberculosis.
d) Malaria
ICROSS has a dynamic Malaria prevention project
download our latest report.
www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
http://icrossprojects.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/#!/ICROSSprojects
http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/malaria/features/2287-10-facts-on-malaria-in-africa.html
poverty in Africa
Facts on Poverty in Africa www.icrossinternational.org
www.icrosskenya.org
* 325 million people – one in two of people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day
* 184 million people – 33% of the African population – suffer from malnutrition
* During the 1990s the average income per capita decreased in 20 African countries
* Less than 50% of Africa’s population has access to hospitals or doctors
* In 2000, 300 million Africans did not have access to safe water
* The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years
* Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and only one of three children complete school
* One in six children die before the age of 5. This number is 25 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the OECD countries
* Children account for half of all civilian casualties in wars in Africa
* The African continent lost more than 5,3 million hectares of forest during the decade of the 1990s
* Less than one person out of five has electricity. Out of 1.000 inhabitants 15 have a telephone line, and 7,8 out of 1.000 people surf on Internet.
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Africa is the second largest continent on earth, occupying 20% of the Earth's land area. Africa measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 miles from east to west.
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Africa’s population is slightly less than 14% of the total world population.
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Only about 6% of Africa is arable; nearly 25% is forested or wooded.
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Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria are the major petroleum and natural gas producing countries in Africa. Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa together produce 50% of the world's diamonds. Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe together produce nearly 50% of the world’s gold.
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Africa's major languages include Arabic (North), Berber (Morocco and Algeria), Bantu group of languages (central and southern Africa), Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), Akan (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire), Saharan and Maba (Chad basin), Koma (the Blue Nile basin), and Songhai (upper-middle Niger River region).
www.icrosskenya.org
* 325 million people – one in two of people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day
* 184 million people – 33% of the African population – suffer from malnutrition
* During the 1990s the average income per capita decreased in 20 African countries
* Less than 50% of Africa’s population has access to hospitals or doctors
* In 2000, 300 million Africans did not have access to safe water
* The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years
* Only 57% of African children are enrolled in primary education, and only one of three children complete school
* One in six children die before the age of 5. This number is 25 times higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in the OECD countries
* Children account for half of all civilian casualties in wars in Africa
* The African continent lost more than 5,3 million hectares of forest during the decade of the 1990s
* Less than one person out of five has electricity. Out of 1.000 inhabitants 15 have a telephone line, and 7,8 out of 1.000 people surf on Internet.
#
Africa is the second largest continent on earth, occupying 20% of the Earth's land area. Africa measures about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from north to south and about 4,600 miles from east to west.
#
Africa’s population is slightly less than 14% of the total world population.
#
Only about 6% of Africa is arable; nearly 25% is forested or wooded.
#
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Nigeria are the major petroleum and natural gas producing countries in Africa. Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa together produce 50% of the world's diamonds. Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe together produce nearly 50% of the world’s gold.
#
Africa's major languages include Arabic (North), Berber (Morocco and Algeria), Bantu group of languages (central and southern Africa), Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), Akan (Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire), Saharan and Maba (Chad basin), Koma (the Blue Nile basin), and Songhai (upper-middle Niger River region).
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