UNICEF points out that raising awareness and creating policies which help reduce childhood poverty not only helps children have a healthier start to their lives but also helps improve the quality of life for future generations. UNICEF has introduced a new tool for helping to measure the multi-dimensional measurement of poverty. The tool is called Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA). I chose to explore UNICEF's website and look further into childhood poverty in the country of Uganda. Based on results reported, the following insights were gained:
-Children in urban settings were more likely to experience one deprivation, whereas children from rural settings were most likely to experience at least 3 deprivations.
-Sanitation was a universal deprivation which affected approximately 65% of children along with other deprivations occurring at the same time. The second highest deprivation for children was water falling at approximately 57%.
-Approximately sixteen percent "of all the children who have a mother with no or only primary education are deprived in nutrition, health and water simultaneously, while only 9.1% of all children who have a mother with secondary or higher education are deprived in these three dimensions" (UNICEF, n.d).
UNICEF. (n.d.). Social Inclusion, Policy and Budgeting. Retrieved from: http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html
Meg, I also used the UNICEF website to gather information. I have found a similar factor to child poverty in the Philippines. Children in poverty had mothers who had poor health and were malnourished. I would like to know more about the fathers - I'm assuming they are working or they are not around. UNICEF has been around for a long time. I remember raising money for the organization in elementary school, but I have not heard much about them since. I have found the website very useful and up-to-date. Thanks for sharing!
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Megan,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the information about poverty in Uganda. The facts that you shared are very informative. It is very true that if parents are uneducated, especially the mothers it can lead to even more hardships.
Thank you for sharing your research information on poverty in Uganda. Education is truly important to improve the quality of life. It is so sad to know that some especially children have to go through such hardships in their life while we sit somewhere else in the world not knowing much about whats happening and not being able to do anything about it.
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