My contact with an early childhood professional from Play English in China will be away from her office until September 22nd. After this time, she has agreed to maintain contact with me over the next 5 weeks as we talk about topics for each of the week's assignments.
However, during this week's research, I learned that there are 600 million children worldwide that live in absolute poverty. That is 1 of every 4 children (Childhood Poverty, 2013).This information
was really heart wrenching for me.
I viewed a video on World Forum that provided me with information on poverty in other countries such as Afghanistan. The speaker Sakeena Yacoobi talked about how many of the children
there live in refugee camps where there is no clean water and the children slept in tents or under a tree. She also talked about how the children slept on sticks while she visited the camps indicating no bedding even for a pallet. As a result of the poverty she witnessed,she wanted to make a difference so she talked about how she would do this through education and so she set up her different learning areas stationed under tents with the intent to educate the whole child using a holistic approach, as well as their parents who were hurting because of the casualties they have witnessed of their loved ones.
This information again was sad, but it provided me with a glimpse of how poverty affects children in other parts of the world. However, it makes me also want to get involved as an advocator against childhood poverty because being a spectator won't help to solve the problem.
Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre. (2013). Home. Retrieved from: http://www.childhoodpoverty.org
World Forum. (2011). Provocation by Sakeena Yacoobi. [video]. Retrieved from:
http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/media-and-resources/wofo-tv/
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