Tag - Third World
It's a warehouse of its own kind. Here, the shoes are not for sale. Mona Purdy, popularly known as 'Shoe Messiah', is the founder and executive director of 'Share your Soles', a non-profit organization located in Palos Park.
Her organization collects...
Despite increasing frequency of such occurrences, even now it's shockingly amazing to see a children with a firearm on the battlefield. However, this phenomenon is more visible in the Third World countries.
These countries appear to be robbing the...
The World Food Day reminds us of those skeleton figures with swelling but empty stomach, who go to bed hungry. There are still many children in Third World, who suffer from hunger and malnutrition. There are around 300 million children who go to bed...
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World Food Day, Hunger, Children, Third World, UNICEF, Malnutrition, International community, Basic Right, Skeleton Body, Swelling Stomach, Politics & Society
A new EU immunization programme has been designed with a view to save million of Third World children suffering from several diseases. The programme will be first implemented in Africa followed by other developing countries of the world.
The Microsoft...
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Vaccination, Third World, Children, Africa, EU members, Bill Gates, Microsoft Billionaire, Measles, Polio, Hepatitis B, Tetanus and Diphtheria, Deadly diseases, Politics & Society
If one thinks that the Western companies hiring cheap child laborers of Third World are actually exploiting them, then one is altogether wrong at least if one goes by the survey conducted by Pew Center for the People and Press in 44 nations, covering...
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Sweatshop, Pew Center for the Center and Press, African, Wages, Shops, Western companies, Third World, Children, Child labour, Child Labor, Politics & Society
The main objective of the child activist and advocates is to protect the right and welfare of the children. They stand as the 'pressure group' working for the upliftment of the children, so as to improve their living standard.
The United Nations...
Large population of Asia is the biggest reason behind the large number of orphans. In 2001, an estimated 65 million children were declared as orphans, of which 2 million were AIDS orphan.
Though African countries are the most severely AIDS affected...
Recent studies conducted by the UNICEF highlighted that due to the absence of medical care facility, around 30 to 50 percent children in the rural Africa dies before reaching the age of five. Malaria is one of the most important causes of death among...
According to the report of World Health Organization (WHO) infectious diseases have become the world's largest killer of children and young adults. Around there are 13 million deaths a year, of which one in every two deaths is from the developing...
Craig Kielburger through his book Free the Children has made a call to end abusive child labor. Furthermore, he has given voice to the weakest and the most vulnerable section of the society - the children.
In the book, Kielburger has pointed out that...
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