Save the Children is an international website that provide information on how the organization supports families and children across the world. For this assignment, I decided that I would like to share a resource called Campaigns to Help Children in Need (http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6147403/k.3306/Campaigns_to_Help_Children_in_Need.htm). Because this information is relevant to my current professional development, I am learning much more about how children's lives are being impacted by economists, politicans, and neuroscientists. At a point, I did not realize how much children's lives are easily flourished or destroyed.
Campaigns to Help Children in Need emphasized that when children's needs are being met, they will be more likely to survive and success. Save the Children organization quoted:
"Of the children under the age of 5 who die each year, almost 2/3 could be saved with the simple low-cost interventions delivered by health workers in clinics and in their communities. With attention from developing country governments and donor nations, we can help them bring lifesaving care to more hard-to-reach communities and make the survival of children a reality worldwide."
This statement caught my attention. It clearly named politicans, economists, and neuroscientists by using 'governments' and 'donor nations.' These professionals have the "power" to make the differences in children's lives by making policies, creating new vaccinations, and making investments to increase the quality of their lives. This made me realized that every nation needs economists, neuroscientists, and politicans who advocate children and step up to make the differences. Their positions are highly recognized and demanded.
Our home country is undertaking a major recession that is impacting the young children in every way such as nutrition, education, lifestyle, home circumstance, and so forth. Although our country may not show the worst aspect of children's lives as other countries that are shown through Save the Children organization, I feel that it is imperative for our country to encourage economists, neuroscientists, and politicans who are strong advocates for early childhood education to fight for our children by using evidences and models that demonstrate the significant differences between increase investments and lack of investments in early childhood education.
I am starting to believe in advocating by choosing right people (economists, neuroscientists, and politicans) as Save the Children stated, "urgent action to implement quality education and build peace in conflict-affected countries." Keep in mind that conflict-affected countries are common across the world, but it does not mean to exclude countries like United States. We need to recognize the "conflict" and its impact on children.
That statement that you shared was very eye opening. It is sad to see that so many children and families suffer and even die because the lack of medicine, food, and so forth. I always try to donate to any cause I can that deal with children because they don't come into this world asking to suffer and hurt. As professionals we need to step up and start advocating for these children. Because they are our future. This program and web site sounds really great and I will try to look more into it. Thanks for your post!
ReplyDeleteYou know Chrissy, it's beyond comprehension to be in 2011 and still realizing children are dying because of lack of health care access. How is that still possible? I was listening to an interview of Children Defense Fund director Marian Wright Edelman who said we don't have a budget problem, we have a priorities problem. Isn't that the truth? Our priorities are failing are children.
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