Many have heard that African children grow up in adverse conditions. Mortality due to hunger is high. And this is in the 21st century, full of everyday blessings, when, going to the corner of the house, a person can buy almost everything necessary in a store. We learn about the current situation on the continent and how children live and grow there, further from the article.
Colossal decline
The organization for the protection of human rights Save the Children has prepared a report according to which, mainland Africa is indeed considered the most unfavorable place for raising new generations. Hard life in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Mali, as well as other states.
Each of the eight children born there dies before they reach their first birthday. 1/10 women die during childbirth. The level of education is also very low. Only 10% of female representatives are trained in writing and writing.
Clean water is available only to a quarter of citizens. So everyone who periodically complains about life can simply imagine the conditions of existence of these people. Young African children die before they reach the age of 6-10, because they simply do not have food or clean water.
Indifference and orphanage
Many live simply on the streets, because their parents met death from malaria, AIDS or another disease, and there is simply no one to monitor the kids. There are a lot of beggars. This is sometimes annoying and frightening tourists, but it is worth remembering that African children do not pester people in order to annoy, but only out of a desire to survive. Even a piece of bread would help them.
They are deprived of the happy joys of childhood that our first-borns know, which they take to zoos, New Year trees, dolphinariums and toy stores. The tribes are trying to support the younger generation, since it is they who in the future will have to take care of the elderly, however, it is not always possible to save large offspring.
A long period of breastfeeding lasts here. The children of Africa do not even know what a stroller, playground, school is. The world order of the environment remains for them a dark knowledge gap. Around them only poverty and meager living conditions.
Neglect
Here babies are worn on their backs or hips, tied like a culp rather than in their arms. You can often see how a woman goes to the bazaar or to another place, drags a bag on her head, rides a bicycle, while carrying her child. The fleeting impulses of the heirs are not taken into account.
For example, in our latitudes, if your son or daughter sees something interesting on the street, you will probably stop and let them see what is there. Mainland Africa lives by several other laws. If the baby wants to go somewhere, no one will specifically carry him there, he will have to crawl on his own. Due to which, for sure, it will be physically more developed than babies who move only within the apartment.
Also here you can rarely see capricious crying. Just because it does not help to attract the attention of parents.
Wild customs
A child’s life is valued extremely low. The old people are much more protected, because writing is poorly developed here, knowledge is transmitted only by means of language. So every centenarian is worth its weight in gold.
There are terrible stories about how the children of Africa were sacrificed in order to appease the gods and extend the life of the elderly. The child is usually stolen in the village next door. Twins are especially popular for these purposes. Up to five years, fragile creatures are treated with disdain and are not considered people. Do not use a death and birth certificate.
In Uganda, sacrifices have become common practice and have not surprised anyone for a long time. People have come to terms with the fact that they can beat a child or even kill him when he goes outside.
Scale
The starving children of Africa are victims of a humanitarian catastrophe. 11.5 million people suffer from it, according to data collected by international organizations. This is most pronounced in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. A total of 2 million children are starving. Of these, 500 thousand are close to death. Lacking food ¼ of the population.
More than 40% of babies under the age of 5 experience malnutrition due to poor nutrition. Children in Africa are not able to get an education. The schools give only the basics that in our countries are already known in the primary groups of kindergartens. A rarity is the ability to read and write. This is enough for a person to be called enlightened. They learn to count on pebbles, and sit right on the street under the baobabs.
Families with relatively high incomes donate their children to white-only schools. Even if the state supports the institution in order to attend it, you still need to pay at least 2 thousand dollars a year. But this gives at least some guarantee that, having unlearned there, a person will be able to go to university.
If we talk about villages, the situation there is absolutely deplorable. Instead of exploring the world, girls become pregnant, and boys become alcoholics. Starving children of Africa amid such deplorable conditions are doomed to death from birth. Very little is known about contraception, so in families of 5-12 children. Due to this, although mortality is high, the population is growing.
Low value of human life
Demographic processes here are chaotic. After all, this is not normal when at 10 years old children already have sex. A survey was conducted, during which it turned out that in the case of AIDS, 17% of children will specifically infect others.
In our realities, it’s hard even to imagine the savagery in which children grow, almost losing their human appearance.
If a child survives to 6 years, he can already be called lucky. As most mow dysentery and malaria, lack of food. If his parents are also alive up to this point - these are repeated miracles.
On average, men die at 40, and women at 42. There are practically no gray-haired elders here. Of the 20 million Ugandans, 1.5 million are orphans due to malaria and AIDS.
Accommodations
Children live in brick huts with a corrugated roof. During rain, water gets inside. Space is extremely small. Instead of a kitchen, there are stoves in the courtyard, charcoal is expensive, so many use branches.
Washing rooms are used by several families at once. There are slums around. With the money that both parents can earn, it is simply unrealistic to rent a house. Girls are not sent to schools here because they believe that they do not need education, because all they can do is take care of the house, give birth to children, cook food or work as a maid, waitress or any other unskilled laborer. If the family has the opportunity, then the boy will be educated.
The situation is better in South Africa, where there is a rapid development. Help to African children is expressed in investments in educational processes. 90% of children receive knowledge in schools without fail. These are both boys and girls. 88% of citizens are literate. However, much still needs to be done so that in the villages something has changed for the better.
What is worth working on?
Progress in the educational system began in 2000 after the forum in Dakar. Much attention should be paid to education, and indeed to the preservation of the lives of preschool children.
They must eat right, receive medicine, and be under social protection. At the moment, little attention is paid to the kids. The households are impoverished, and the parents themselves do not know much. Although the trends are positive, the current level is still not enough. There are frequent cases when children get to school quickly when they get to school.
