It is a known that Africa contains some of the poorest countries on earth. There are tons of people willing to help change that but they may not have the best approach. Bill and Melinda Gates wrote a letter addressing such problems going on in Africa today. The pair displays their views on issues such as agriculture and incorporating new technologies such as mobile banking. It seems that one of the biggest problems will be how to educated and provide these new ways of living to some of the poorest areas on earth. Bill and Melinda Gates have outstanding ideas about how to change Africa around and to raise its standard of living. In their letter they touch upon many problems people are facing. Agriculturally, they plan to teach every farmer …show more content…
Once new crops can be grown plentifully, the problem of child malnutrition can be addressed. Gates states that “malnutrition runs rampant across a continent of farmers, affecting children’s cognitive and physical development.” If one major change could be made to the way Africa is operating it should be one that changes for the children. Every improvement that should be made should be in favor of the next generation because they are the ones who will create success or not. Introducing new technologies to a country that has zero to none now is very risky. Gates states that they “will give the poor more control...and help them transform their lives.” (Gates, Bill and Melinda 17). My concern is the lack of infrastructure, Gates’ can’t just bring in tons of technology with no way to use it. In order from lives to be transformed they organization should be creating infrastructure that will allow the people to adapt to a new way of …show more content…
For example, how will the poor turn their only assets into electronic money? I feel that turing a cow to digital money would be hard for people to understand. Setting up mobile banking locations is also a concern. Some villages that Gates’ wants to help don’t have roads for hundreds of miles, for example “The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the size of Western Europe...but it has fewer than 2,000 miles of paved roads။”(Gates, Bill and Melinda 13). How will people be able to access their money if they don’t have the transportation or location to do
The Nature of Ronald CoaseDecember 29, 2014The Ideas That Shaped AfricaJanuary 7, 2015 As protests in Ferguson and elsewhere have brought police militarization to the forefront of public debate, some voices suggest that reigning in police militarization requires stricter gun control laws. For example, Matthew Yglesias argues at Vox that “when civilians are well-armed, police have to be as well.” Yglesias claims, “The officer always has to worry that if he doesn’t reach for and use his own gun, the suspect will.” He further contends that the disproportionate rate at which blacks are shot by police means “Young black men pay the price for gun rights.” While “officer safety” is the common refrain used to justify police violence and police militarization,
A decade of opportunity" Article: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/commentaries/ending-malnutrition-opportunity/en/ In this article, Dr. Francesco Branca and Anna Lartey write about X When one thinks of malnutrition they tend to think of the many people that go hungry every day. Upwards of 800 million people go hungry and 156 million children aged under 5 are stunted in their growth because they do not receive the proper nutrition to do so. In-fact, 50 million children's lives are threatened due to this acute malnutrition!
Whilst raising money for African charities at school I developed an interest in global inequality and alternative policies that can help low-income nations escape the poverty trap. Reading ’23 Things’ by Ha-Joon Chang, I was intrigued by his view on blaming free-market policies like SAPs that exposed sub-Saharan Africa to international competition, slowing economic growth. Hence, this extended my research to the other side of the
During the age of cross-cultural interactions, regions went through similar changes and continuities. These regions allowed consistent causes and effects to emerge and change their societies. These changes and continuities are evident in the regional societies located within Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from 600 to 1450 CE, opportunities for women changed, however religion and labor continued to influence society.
“Some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people tell themselves,” says Anna Quindlen on the topic of child hunger. In the United States child hunger is not as major as it is in other countries but, that doesn’t mean that is doesn’t exist. The problem of child hunger is virtually ignored in first world countries like the U.S. because of how increasingly worse it is in many third world countries such as Africa. Anna notices this problem and wishes to educate others on the topic and inform the reader on the problem.
A New York Times by Rachel Cernansky article explains the steps that some African and Asian nations, specifically Kenyans are doing to better their
The first article 4 ways to end hunger in Africa from CNN explains almost 800 million do not have enough food to eat daily in Africa. This reason lead Africa to put greater emphasis on agriculture and supporting their farmers. They achieved to a remarkable goal in cutting the malnourish in half since the 1990. The United States has raised it efforts in the commitment to ending global hunger, poverty, and child malnutrition because of all the
Malnutrition causes nearly half of all deaths in children under five. (Food Aid Foundation.) Millions of children, gone, into thin air. As if they never existed. Millions of stories, millions of futures, all dead, uncared for. More than 795 million people do not have access to enough food to live a healthy lifestyle. (Food Aid Foundation.) Potential scientists, doctors, and musicians will never be able to achieve their goals because they can’t even obtain food. In Haiti, a small central-american country, one out of every three children lose the ability to grow because of malnourishment (Naq, Oishimaya Sen.). The severity of malnourishment in Haiti causes Haitian children to acquire many terminal diseases and blood deficiencies (Naq, Oishimaya
When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.
Bill Gates said that the world's poor farmers, not just the ones in America, but the whole world's farmers need our help. After Bill Gates traveled to Bihar, India they noticed that the farmers there needed help from people around the world. To back up what he said about the farmers he used information that he himself gathered. While he was still in India he found that as the crop would become ruined they would go into the city looking for jobs but would come back empty handed and poorer than he was before he left. But for Bill Gates this left a reminder in his brain that for farmers it is a high-wire act without any safety nets. This being drawn up because if you have one bad year then you have to have some sort of miracle happen in order
One of the biggest problem in today’s world is the struggle of African Countries and others. Seventy-five percent of the world’s poorest countries are located in Africa. Approximately one in three people living in Africa are undernourished and millions even lack the opportunity to have clean water. Only around twenty percent of women in Africa have access to education. This data proves that modern world
As each day passes, our society grows and develops because of technology. We continue to become more connected to the rest of the world because of this technology. This, however, does not change the staggering situational differences of the world. There is still uneven distribution of natural resources and unequal opportunity for people. There are many people in Asia and Africa
Solution #2 would be to raise awareness for education and healthcare. By the government requiring healthcare talks etc to be apart of the sermon at church and in schools then more people will be reached by this message. The more people that become aware of the long term benefits of healthcare and education , the more influential new developments toward both problems will be.This help close the wealth gap. However, if measures are not taken then the problems associated with wealth inequality would impact both the rich and the poor in Africa. When Ebola struck Africa, many countries did not initially have the technology to combat such diseases. Their lack of materials caused the virus to spread rapidly and made it uncontrollable. This caused
It is very sweetening to hear of Africa emerging after years of struggle. The ten fastest growing countries in the world came from Africa for example and consumer spending in Africa tend to increase exponentially in the years to come. Nevertheless, this image and expectations we have of Africa is not a hundred percent sure because the poverty level in Africa does not make any improvement.
Building a foundation together is building one that will last and one that will be finished together gradually over time. If we not only donate technology to these countries, but also work with them to fit the technology into their culture and lifestyles, then they will feel like they are a part of the solution. There are programs today working towards this goal. The following are descriptions of three programs dedicated to teaching small-scale farmers to become more self-sufficient.