The Third World children suffering from HIV/AIDS are the most vulnerable section of the society. And this probably appears to be understood by the International organizations too as Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are taking special interest in the...
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Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock dares to reveal not only the failure of the big projects, but also unmasks the immoral character of the protagonists. Hancock has pointed out as to how the NGOs on the pretext of doing social cause cheat western public...
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...
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...
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...
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 reason behind the large number of orphans. In 2001, it was estimated that there are around 65 million orphans of which 2 million were AIDS orphan.
Though African countries are the most severely AIDS affected countries,...
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 a voice to the most weakest and vulnerable section of the society- the children.
In the book Kielburger has pointed out that the...
Mohammadu Nakilou, a Nigerian boy, is on a respirator because of a lung infection. Doctors find his condition critical and admitted that there are little chance of his survival. Starvation badly hit the immune system, as a result children are not able to...
Children’s working in mines and quarries is one of the worst forms of child labor. They work in the environment which is contaminated with heavy metals. Children as young as five years can be seen digging in mines.
They are always at the risk of...
Luxurious plazas in the central Jakarta are the evidence of the export- led development. But this is not all about Jakarta. There is much more to know about it. Behind this classy and huge development there is another neglected world. There many such...
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