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Poverty threatens every right, and deprive the children of the skills they need to survive, develop and prosper. Children living in the country reflected in this map are facing the worst deprivations of essential goods and services: More than one third of all children are malnourished, lacking basic immunization, or are not registered or attend school. In 13 countries, less than half the population has access to improved drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities.

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Child poverty in Africa

The fight against hunger

Fighting hunger is a fight that no one
enemy, but is the result of a series of
causes and situations. On the one hand, the laws of trade
internationally wrongful make developing countries
world can not equal the sale
their products to other countries. The current model
globalized dismantled protectionist barriers
South, and the flood of products
subsidized, have the already fragile economy
Southern countries in total ruin.

Moreover, debt and how
many countries have to face it, with obligations
investment that will encourage the donor, not
help the progress of these societies.

sad world

Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care". " Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light.
Africa was poor, Africa is poor and Africa will continue to be poor if we the Africans are not ready to change Africa. Africa will remain poor if Africans are not ready to make Africa rich.
There is poverty in Africa and there is hunger everywhere on the continent of Africa. HIV/AIDs continues to kill Africans in record numbers. Africa is poor and there is no doubt Africa is poor. The question is not why Africa is poor but may be how we can make Africa rich. What we can do as individuals or groups to help change Africa.

Extreme poverty

Highest poverty

The average life expectancy in Africa is 46, compared with 77 of the countries that are part of the G8, according to estimates by humanitarian aid organizations.

About 30 thousand children die every day on the mainland for purposes of avoidable poverty, and 4.5 million die annually before their fifth birthday, while every 30 seconds a child dies because of the African malaria.

One of every 16 women in sub-Saharan region run the risk of death during pregnancy, compared with one in every 3000 U.S. 600.

Another point of concern is the impact of AIDS on the continent, as some 26 million Africans are infected with the virus of evil, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

Poverty and hunger

Poverty is given to understand how the situation affects people who lack the necessary sustenance of their lives, ie they can not satisfy basic needs. We are facing a multidimensional concept, not only includes economic aspects without also includes non-material and environmental aspects.

In other words, poverty means not having the opportunity to live a long life, healthy, enjoying and creative freedom, dignity, financial markets crisis, natural disasters, management of inappropriate or improper environment ambientutilització natural resources by man.

The United Nations Program for Development presented the World Report 1997, a human poverty index, the IPH, that its goal was to include the different characteristics of deprivation of quality of life. This index takes into account the following variables:

-Percentage of population with life expectancy less than 40 years;
-Percentage of illiterate adults;
-Percentage of people without access to health services and potable water;
Percentage of children under-five victims of malnutrition.