kids can't eat bombs
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every 6 minutes a child dies from malnourishment
every 6 minutes the world spends $160,000 on a military endevour
a wonderful happening; a facility that produced 300 packets a day of a simple sugar-salt remedy, at a cost of 1.5 cents each, was built in Guatemala for $550...result: child deaths from diahhrea were cut in half in one year
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why aren't simple methods like this being set-up and utilized?????
half of the global south is illterate.
being literate is defined by the ability to write and read a simple sentence. consider the beneifts of being able to read and obtain information about farming ($$), health care (more productive), birth control (lower birth rates) etc. THIS IS SO CRUCIAL TO EVEN MAKING A TINY STEP OUT OF POVERTY.
in medical reserach, less than 5% of world expenditures are directed at problems affecting the gS. pharmaceutical companies do have remedies! but they are marketed for northern consumers, and restriced from generic duplication or reduced prices for those in the south. (look to ipe theory of Generalized system of preferences, those assholes)
more than 600 million people are infected with tropical diseases
80% of the undernourished children are FEMALES
900,000 people are trafficked annually, as sex and labor slaves, both men and women, adults and children.
Organizations are typically as corrupt as what they are trying to help
It takes grassroots types of movement and it starts with people who are ready to be aware and be prepared it takes new types of legislation and new type of global political policy. These "foreign affairs" wouldnt be so foriegn if we actually could realize how closely we are being affected by it.
every 6 minutes the world spends $160,000 on a military endevour
a wonderful happening; a facility that produced 300 packets a day of a simple sugar-salt remedy, at a cost of 1.5 cents each, was built in Guatemala for $550...result: child deaths from diahhrea were cut in half in one year
!!!
why aren't simple methods like this being set-up and utilized?????
half of the global south is illterate.
being literate is defined by the ability to write and read a simple sentence. consider the beneifts of being able to read and obtain information about farming ($$), health care (more productive), birth control (lower birth rates) etc. THIS IS SO CRUCIAL TO EVEN MAKING A TINY STEP OUT OF POVERTY.
in medical reserach, less than 5% of world expenditures are directed at problems affecting the gS. pharmaceutical companies do have remedies! but they are marketed for northern consumers, and restriced from generic duplication or reduced prices for those in the south. (look to ipe theory of Generalized system of preferences, those assholes)
more than 600 million people are infected with tropical diseases
80% of the undernourished children are FEMALES
900,000 people are trafficked annually, as sex and labor slaves, both men and women, adults and children.
Organizations are typically as corrupt as what they are trying to help
It takes grassroots types of movement and it starts with people who are ready to be aware and be prepared it takes new types of legislation and new type of global political policy. These "foreign affairs" wouldnt be so foriegn if we actually could realize how closely we are being affected by it.
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