None of my contacts have responded, therefore I'm researching the http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/ website instead! I chose to research china. I discovered that china is e most populated country in the world! They have done a grea job of getting out of poverty! They went from 250 million in poverty to just 35 million! That's still a very huge number! Out of 1.2 billion, 250 million were in poverty in 2001! 4.2 million of children are in absolute poverty and 8.7 million are in disadvantage conditions. This is very sad. But on the bright side I found that 80% of western chinas children complete primary school! From these statistics I have found, I am very thankful to have a home and a family and food to eat! There are many people out there in poverty! Crazy amounts of children and families!! I feel I need to be more thankful for what I have, after reading these statistics! I've always wanted to adopt or help a child in need... I think this has motivated me to push more toward helping them, these are very sad statistics!!
I also listened to the world forum foundation radio...
The first person I listened to was susan lyon she started by talking about a little boy who inspired her by his words and actions. She advocates for children by listening and using environments which is connected to the Reggio Emilia approach. She brought the 100 languages exhibit to a large city. http://ccie-media.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/WFR_10_SusanLyon.mp3
Hi Shanda, I was fortunate to travel to China this past summer with 33 other teachers as a part of NEA Foundations Global Fellows Program. We visited Beijing and Shanghai and a few smaller communities. We toured schools as well. It was a great experience for all of us. Each teacher was required to go with a "guiding question" about China that would impact our classrooms and create a lesson plan from it when we got home. The culture is so different and the country so vast, I found myself grateful to view China through a specific lens of play. Thanks for your post!
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Hi Shanda. I also researched on China and I find this country does have hope! With the government and World Bank, poverty-stricken families are given the opportunity to move on to a better life. I totally agree you and I are fortunate to live and have the necessities from our government and state. With the Red Cross, military, technology, health benefits, community supports, etc.) our country has the means that other countries are desperate to have. Excellent post, Shanda
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ReplyDeleteGreat blog and what interesting facts you found out about China and how they struggle with poverty. My husband has visited a lot of overseas countries and he volunteers a lot within those countries with his other service members to help in areas of poverty; of course never in China, but in Japan and rural parts of Africa. It is so sad to see the amenities that we have in America and how poverty sickened a country we are. I live in Gulfport, MS, and I just took a job with Head Start. Most of the children I will be seeing live in poverty and depend on Head Start for two meals and one snack each day. Imagine if we didn't have the USDA program in our country. Maybe we would fund raise too. Great post, Melissa