Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The problem of Hyiti

Preval, the president of Haiti issued the Agenda for children, which was made to solve the problems of Children being neglected the most basic needs for survival, and rights.

Several Haitian children run among the streets, without any food, water, or shelter. They join local gang members, in hopes of getting food, shelter, protection, and reputation. Gangs take advantage of this by using them to do crimes, or fight rival gangs. Girls are used for prostitution, and rival gang members rape them to show reprisal.

Parents who don’t have enough money to feed the children sell their children to other wealthier men, in hope that their children will be sent somewhere better, and receive an education. The children are, instead worked like slaves. Countless number of children are trafficked to Dominic Republic.

Health is another big issue in Haiti. The hospitals are expensive, and their equipments are at the least seriously lacking. Child mortality of Haiti is 19% of its region, when the Haiti’s birth rate is 2%. Immunization is nearly nonexistent, and children have nutrition deficiency. Access to clean water and sanitation is rare.

For Prival, time is running out to complete his Agenda for Children.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Times Top Ten

Johanna Sigurdardottir
After Iceland's economy collapsed in October 2008, Sigurdardottir rode a wave of discontent all the way to the premiership. A former flight attendant and the world's first openly gay head of state, she must rebuild the nation's economy while boosting confidence abroad. She is trying to pay debts on Netherlands and England for Iceland.

Kim Yu-Na
A Korean Figure skater, she has won many hearts of Koreans as she gained several medals for her nation. She managed waver Koreans away from the golf channel.

Oprah Winfrey
The legendary talk-show woman, who has continued the Oprah Winfrey show for 24 years, has given so much inspiration for women world-wide.

James Cameron
He is the director of several famous movies such as The Terminator 1-2, Alien, and Titanic. The most recent movie he created is the Avatar, which has turned the movie industry upside down.

Barack Obama
Barak Obama has been elected as the first black president in 2008. He is currently dealing with American financial problems

Seth MacFarlane
He is the creator of Family guy, and American dad. He is the cartoon king, and has a large influence in the media.

Muammar Gaddafi
Since 2001, he has sought to improve his relations with the West by aiding the fight against al-Qaeda and ending a program of weapons of mass destruction.

Han Han
A Chinese race car driver and author, he made debates about the problems of Chinese education, including the problems with the strictness and rigidness of Chinese education.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Shower of Aid Brings Flood of Progress


For the last 5 years, Sauri, western Kenya has became increasingly prosperous. Sachs, the leader of the program has giving straightforward programs to lift people out of poverty, such as rotating crops, and battling malaria.

The results are glorious, but the problem is whether or not it will work globally. This is because of the Corruption of the politicians in Africa. Sachs admits this sad fact.

Sachs states that another problem is America being anti-aid, as they link poverty and terrorism. When Sachs went to Yemen, a haven for Al Qaeda, he talked to the American official about the problems in Yamen. All he got were blank answers.

NY Times link

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Poverty



Poverty is all around us, even in the 21st century. The hardest hit is Africa, and data shows that:
13,500 people around the world get infected with HIV/AIDS everyday
22,000 people around the world die from extreme poverty everyday
850 million people around the world go to bed hungry everyday
1 billion people around the world live on less than $1 a day
Poverty basically means that not being able to sustain oneself to get basic needs as medication, education, shelter and food. This should not be happening, especially when the world has the ability to change it. It is just not fair for us to live such a happy life and the poor people to suffer like that.
However, it is not hopeless. There are organizations such as the World bank that lends loans to poor countries without any interest, when the country has something reasonable to say about why they need money. It is still not enough. We cannot ask the government to do everything. We have to take actions by ourselves first, and fast, before it is too late.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Quote Pictures with explaination


My qoute is 'Your imagination is your preview of lifes coming.' so I chose this picture. These pictures are showing us about future city. Today human's technology became strong and also human's hopes were became real. So I think humans can make our world like this. Also when our world beoming a better place to live, then the poor people and poor countries will become a better place to live because if our world becomes a better than all the people's power and authority will be identification. So the world will not have any discrimination. And our world will be the one world