When we
talk about Africa, automatically we think about poor, famine, black skin
people, apartheid, always associate it with something bad or sad; it is because
this is the true story of this country.
Over 300 million people live on less than one dollar a day; 30 million
children under five years are malnourished and 43% of the people lack access to
drinking water, these causes drought. Every 3 seconds a child dies from hunger.
Child
malnutrition is one of the most serious problems of this continent. There are
many institutions in order to overcome these problems. For example UNICEF; AESNET.
The drought
and its consequences such like famine and disease, and the desire to find a
better life, have encouraged the emigration.
This is
associated with the southern part of Africa because the north has a more
comfortable lifestyle. But in the south Life expectancy is 46 years. The
disease AIDS is primarily women, causes more than 2.2 million women a year die.
Africa has
some of the world's largest reserves of gold, diamonds, copper. Human
selfishness is so strong, because other countries make use of these territories,
and Africa receives a small percentage of these riches. Ironically, despite all
its mineral wealth is one of the poorest countries around the world.
Africa's
children don’t have education, many children don’t have parents and they feel
forgotten.
And many companies throw all your garbage to these places for their lives thinking that will not worsen.
And many companies throw all your garbage to these places for their lives thinking that will not worsen.
In this video the children talks about their life, EVERYDAY!
With all
these facts, we can say that Africa is regarded as a “rubbish dump” country, a
country with poor living conditions, a country that fell into the oblivion, a
country with few opportunities to be happy.
African
People look to the white man as a lucky man and elegant, modern. Instead the
white man sees himself as someone who always missing material things to be
happy.
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