Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

After numerous emails to contacts across the world, I still have no luck finding someone to connect with to ask questions about issues and trends that they may be experiencing around the world. It looks like I will be taking the alternative route. I was eager to get to know an International person to partner up with,but unfortunately it didn't happen that way.

According to UNICEF, child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be measure in many ways(UNICEF, 2015). On the other hand,I went to the website UNICEF read about childhood poverty in one country and now I am ready to share three insights/ideas I have gained from studying the website. I chose to look at childhood poverty in Namibia.First,poverty has impacts on the lives, development of young children in Namibia and their health and education. Second, I learned that some children in Namibia grow up in poor households.The poverty line in Namibia is 3,330.48 per year for extreme poverty and 4,535.52 for poverty.There is true evidence that poverty in Namibia is low for a middle income country. Third,another thing I did learn was an analysis was taken of a grant to make sure there is clean water, utilities, and sanitation. The grant system is making a contribution to ensuring that fewer Namibia children grow up in poverty. I think with these changes this could reduce poverty, improve child development, health,and mental well-being in Namibia. They have a report of Namibia household income that provides an overview of the extent child poverty across Namibia. UNICEF has various on-going projects and tools related to child poverty (UNICEF, 2015). I am still hoping to here from someone. I have faith that he or she will contact to me soon.

References

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html

http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html

UNICEF, (2015), Child Poverty Retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_68822.html