Poverty, Education, Sanitation, Malnutrition, And Child Mortality

Poverty levels in South America are also very high. Woman in rural areas in South America are make up a big amount of the poorest of the poor (IFAD, 2009). The poorest people are the “Indigenous peasant communities in remote mountain areas in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador” (IFAD, 2009). Recent economic crisis has led to

In this report I will give a brief overview of the history, economy and culture of Bolivia. Bolivia was one of the first countries in the Spanish Empire to attempt a break from Spain, but it was one of the last to succeed. The Spanish

While most people know that eating well is important to staying healthy and for prolonging life, poverty makes it difficult to access good nutritious food. Easy access to abundant food is not

Bolivia is a very cultural place with a unique background. Bolivia has very few jobs in agriculture but many jobs in other departments. Bolivian families can include several children before marriage and can range even further after. Health care is very rare and not easily accessible. Many crops are common here, however, they have very uncommon ways of preparing their product. Many devastating agricultural issues plague Bolivia. Families in Bolivia who farm are usually poor for many reasons. Malnutrition is a large issue in Bolivians daily lives. Bolivia's water supply it tainted and cause millions of deaths per year. Education for rural children is very low as well as insufficient.

The capital of Bolivia is La Paz. Bolivia is the most impecunious country in South America, which is depressing, but things have gotten better over the past 20 years. La Paz is the highest capital in the world, sitting about 12,000 feet above sea level. La Paz translates to “the peace,” which is abbreviated for “the Peace of Ayacucho.” They had an unscrupulous government, taking money from our people, affecting its economy in a terrible way. Bolivia has the second biggest area of natural gas in South America and also has El Mutun, which is the world’s biggest amount of magnesium and iron, but it is difficult for people to utilize our crops to acquire richness because of its terrible environment and horrible government. The Peace of Ayacucho

Did you know that 1 out of 100 people in Bolivia have a car? Bolivia is not a rich country, in fact is it the poorest country in South America. Bolivia is a very interesting country, because of its Land,Weather, its people, and its animals.

Being one of the top ten smallest countries in South America, Bolivia has many different things you may not know about including their, climates, vegetation and tourist attractions. Although Bolivia is underestimated about what it has, it has one of the best GDP’s and is one of the most visited countries in the region.

Not unlike many of the Southern American countries which were colonized by Spanish conquistadors, Bolivia was imperialized by spaniards in the 16th century through the defeat of the Incan Empire. The native population of Bolivia was thrust immediately into poverty and slavery, though they avoided the major devastation of European disease which ravaged through other native settlements which had been imperialized. Spaniards put slaves to work mining and “By the end of the 17th century, the mineral wealth had begun to dry up.” (Infoplease) Bolivia gained its independence in 1825 and suffered from much turmoil within and without its borders. It lost much land to outside forces, and political instability, as is common among recently independent countries, contributed to a loss of diminishing wealth. The country currently sits on the second largest natural gas deposit in the world, and also contains much oil, but due to lack of capitalism in the country, it has yet to draw upon this large advantage. Currently, “the country ranks 108th out of 187 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index” (IFAD) About 60% of Bolivians are impoverished, and most of this poverty is among the indigenous population. The country suffers such poverty due to: Lack of capitalism, lack of rural roads or forms of easy transportation, limited access to institutions such as schools and hospitals. There are several solutions to the problems present in

The market’s demand for Bolivian people to be healthier. Malnutrition is crippling Bolivia,. Malnutrition poses the greatest risk to pregnant women and young children. Healthier populations have lower fertility rates, higher labor productivity, and national investment over time. Improvements in health set in motion rising family incomes and usually poverty reduction Twenty-five percent of Bolivian children under the age of three years old have or currently suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition for children in the poorest households is 40 percent.

Care organization is a humanitarian, who works for people to save their lives. It operates in all over the world and always takes a stand to help people. There are so many core problems addressed by this organization, but mainly they fight for women’s empowerment, health related issues, world hunger, education and economic development. According to Robert Wilton (2004) in 1991, 27% of people in Canada suffered from mental illness because they were lived in a sick society (p. 26). Poverty directly affects to the people health because people are having an insufficient amount of money and with they cannot fulfill their basic family needs. According to Nah, S., & Chau, C. (2010) there are 1.02 billion people are undernourish in all over the world. Hunger is one of the primary cause of children deaths and every year 6 million children died cause of starvation (p. 544). Food is the basic need of every single person, and it is impossible for anyone to survive without food. Social innovation plays a vital role to fight completely with this kind of serious issues that affects people lives poorly. According to Moulaert et al. (2013), social change leads to improve social relations and empowerment process. Imagine critically and modify the world with innovation solutions to the existed problems in the world (as cited in Groot, A., & Dankbaar, B., 2014, p. 18).

Non-Governmental Organizations, otherwise known as NGOs are non-profit and voluntary citizens’ group that is organized as an individual in your own local community, in national communities and in global communities. NGOs are task-oriented and are driven by people with a mutual interest for helping others. Non-Governmental Organizations perform a variation of service and philanthropic jobs such as bringing citizen concerns to governments, advocating and monitoring policies and encouraging political participation through provision of information. Some NGOs are organized around specific issues, such as human rights, environment or health (Definition of NGOs 2014). Some of the NGOs in certain countries are very helpful and NGOs in other countries hinder the improvement of the country. Although the Rwanda and Haiti have some apparent similarities, the difference between the NGOs in Rwanda and Haiti are pronounced.

According to Ahasan, Abu, and Katy (13), NGOs or non-governmental organizations are settings staffed by volunteers and altruistic employees who work with missions of satisfying ideologies rather than ends of financial interests. Donors are the sources of the NGOs funding. NGOs are the best hope for the poorest people in the world since poverty is a global disaster and with their support, it is a stepping stone for the affected nations to eradicate poverty (Sandhya, 2). For the attainment of international goals, reduction of poverty is vital. The philosophy that underlies poverty alleviation programs is to handle matters of poverty in rural areas by endowing the poorest people in the world with training and productive assets to

My paper will look into the following research question: did the anti-poverty programs and activities of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) contribute in achieving Goal 1 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty, in some South Asian and sub-Saharan African nations? Since NGOs play an active role in eradicating extreme poverty at the local and international level, I chose to look into the anti-poverty programs and strategies implemented by local and international NGOs to see if they have influenced countries to meet their MDGs. The reason I chose these two regions is because South Asia has shown the most dramatic change in reducing extreme poverty rates (52 percent to 17 percent), whereas Sub-Saharan Africa had the least percentage decline (57 percent to 41 percent) and more than 40 percent of the population continues to live in extreme poverty (MDG Report, 2015). There might be geographical, political, and other various reasons in such a stark difference between the two regions, but I wish to probe into how and if the anti-poverty programs of NGOs have made a difference in achieving the MDGs’ Goal 1 (hereinafter referred to as MDG1) in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. There are three sub-goals under Goal 1 of the MDGs: Target 1.A. is to reduce the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day into half between 1990 and 2015; Target 1.B. is to achieve full and productive employment and decent

With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our current global food system will meet future food needs. Ensuring that all people have access to adequate and nutritious food produced in an environmentally and socio-culturally sustainable manner is one of the greatest challenges of our time (Vinceti et al., 2013). The consumption of fruits and vegetables are generally low in developing countries and in sub-sahara Africa making food insecurity (FIS) and undernourishment a daily reality for most households. Undernourishment is defined as an extreme form of food insecurity arising when food energy availability is inadequate to cover even minimum needs for a sedentary lifestyle (FAO et al., 2012). Food security involves the means by which people have access to food and use it. Inadequate use of food at the household level leads to inappropriate care and poor feeding practices which are the major causes of undernourishment, poor nutritional status and micronutrient deficiency (Johnston et al., 2014; Lock et al, 2005). Undernourishment which is used interchangeably with chronic hunger or hunger is the outcome of poor nutritional status and micronutrient deficiency (FAO et al., 2012). It is food intake that is insufficient to meet dietary energy requirements

In sub-Saharan Africa, just under one in every four people, or 23.2 percent of the population, is estimated to be undernourished in 2014–16 (FAO et al., 2015). This is the highest prevalence of undernourishment for any region in the World and, with about 220 million hungry people in 2014–16, the second highest burden in absolute terms. The number of undernourished people increased by 44 million between 1990 to 92 and 2014 to 2016. In the Central African sub region, the number of undernourished people more than doubled between 1990–92 and 2014–16 (FAO et al., 2015). The lack of progress in the rate of undernourishment in absolute terms reflects prevailing problems in the sub region, notably poor food consumption patterns caused amongst others by limited understanding on the dimensions of food security, political instability and forest degradation. It is therefore absolute to carry out investigations to properly understand the dimensions of food security especially with changing environmental conditions. Promoting the consumption of fruits in poor communities and amongst vulnerable groups could help in addressing problems of nutrient deficiency and malnutrition (Kehlenbeck et al., 2013; Place et al., 2013; Tchoundjeu et al., 2012).