2017-06-16 Fri

A child is one of the most important assets of the nation. So, each and every step has to be taken to raise a child at its best.
Seeing the current scenario throughout the country the child is suffering from some or the other thing. When a child is given a proper education and food, it will grow up at its best and serve the nation.

Africa is one of the poorest continents in the world. And if we look at the stats, they are highly disappointing.
Seventy-five percent of the world’s poorest countries are located in Africa. Approximately one in three people living in sub-Saharan Africa is undernourished. In sub-Saharan Africa, 589 million people live without electricity. Of the 738 million people globally who lack access to clean water, 37 percent are living in sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty in Africa results in more than 500 million people suffering from waterborne diseases.

More than one million people, mostly children under the age of five, die every year from malaria. Malaria deaths in Africa alone account for 90 percent of all malaria deaths worldwide. Eighty percent of these victims are African children. The U.N. Millennium Project has calculated that a child in Africa dies from malaria every 30 seconds, or about 3,000 each day.

The African Government is taking measures but those are not enough for the development of the country. As still, Africa remains the poorest continent on Earth!

16 June of every year in Africa is celebrated as International Day of the African Child since 1991. It creates awareness of the continuing need for improvement of the education provided to African children.

Tanzania issued a stamp for the Child Survival and Development in 1986 of 5 Shilling.

Every child should be given proper food, love, care, affection and most important education. Because a child is a future of a country and they should not be neglected. Also, a child is the purest form of happiness!

Happy International Children Day to Africa.