6. Ethiopia
Throughout our lives we tend to focus in the people that surround us, people in our neighborhood, city and country. We might know a few facts about different countries, but 90% of the information that we think we know is from movies, television, school, books, etc; it means that we are probably very far away from the reality.
We live in a bubble were we think that everyone else has a life not very different from ours. You might hear about hunger, diseases or political issues in other countries but it doesn’t mean anything important for you and it’s just an idea in your head of how life is in that very far away place.
In this part, we are going to discuss a country that is not very fortunate. It stands above other poor countries and considered to be the poorest in the world. Ethiopia is one of the least developed countries in the world, also facing with many social and economic problems.
Ethiopians are distressing from the absence of basic needs of life, such as food, health care, housing, education, and a safe and healthy environment. One of their biggest problems is that the population is growing very fast, which means a big problem when it comes to having enough food. The population is growing by 3% each year and approximately 45% of the population is below the ages of 18.
One of the main causes of hunger in the country is due to the drought (period of dry weather). Many parts of this country have been affected from lack of rain for four straight
Environmental factors are a factor that affect living and nonliving organisms and have participated in Ethiopia’s problem in food deficiency and food insecurity. A large environmental factor that can affect food deficiency and food insecurity is natural hazards and disasters. These can include droughts and floods which can upset agricultural production. For example, grain production and stocks are very low and droughts have hit harvests in grain-producing areas around the world. A more specific example for Ethiopia is that because of Ethiopia’s seasonal rainfall from mid-June to mid-September, soil erosion and
Every day we wake up and know that it will be the same routine like the day before and the day before; we will have breakfast, get dressed, go to work, and maybe have a drink after work. We perceive that nothing will change in our life and also the news. The news is all about terrorism plans, refugee crisis, cyber threats, unemployment, pollution, and the people’s anger towards everything. These issues exist for thousands of years; they just change their format from al-Qaeda to ISIS, Mexican immigrants to Syrian refugees, and Vietnam War to Afghanistan War. We assure that these issues will continue to exist for a long time, so why should we care? Isn’t it enough to care about our life? We didn’t realize that our mind is changing by what the media tells us, little by little.
There are several risk factors that impact children’s health in Ethiopia. For example, vitamin A deficiency stunts children’s growth. Mothers are unable to properly breastfeed so the child doesn’t fully develop as they should. Immune systems weaken in children as well, causing them to die from diseases that are easily treatable. Since the HIV/aids rate is so high in women, children also are transmitted the disease and end up dying. Another factor is that children don’t receive proper care from their families or health services. It is also estimated that over 150,000 children live on the streets in Ethiopian cities (Humanium • We make children's rights happen, 2017). That results in improper hygiene and lack of sanitation. As mentioned already,
Famine is something that is not very common. It is a widespread and extreme scarcity of food. According to the United Nations, “ more than two people per 10,000 die each day, acute malnutrition rates are above 30 percent, all livestock is dead and there is less than 2,100 kilocalories of food and 4 liters of water available per person per day” (LeGagnoux,Borgen Project ), confirming that Somalia is in fact suffering through a famine.
But not a lot of people know how the people live everyday. Their living conditions are
Poor agricultural infrastructure causes hunger because the lack of roads, warehouses, and irrigation causes higher transportation costs, a deficiency of storage facilities, and unreliable water supplies. To improve the agricultural infrastructure, however, it would cost a profuse amount of money, which would put the country in greater debt and result in less funding for essential systems, such as health care, which already has too little funding.
Somalia has passed through cycles of war that disintegrated the country, demolished lawful organizations and created a far-flung weakness, therefore, the Gross Domestic product (GDP) per human and capita evolution results are among the lowest in the whole world (World Bank, 2015). The majority of Somalis live in extremely poverty, according to Rural Poverty Portal in 2012, 62 percent of the population was rural.
Everyday life always takes place in and relates to the immediate environment of a person, no matter where in the world they exist. Our everyday life depicts the ongoing reproduction and emulation of our current society. People reproduce society by reproducing themselves and handing down accepted social functions and expectations. When humans reproduce, they become a representative of a world into which others are born. When I was born, my parents taught me how to exist in our everyday world, and one day I will pass this on to my own children. This process can, however, be influenced by other factors. Personal experience, in particular, plays a significant role in how we interact with others and what version of the world we choose to relay and share with
“You think this is more real, truer-to-life than anything around you” (1092). As society relies more and more on what the media must tell them, they keep forgetting what is going on in their lives right in front of them. This happens with even simple television, and it is when, after a while, what one is witnessing becomes more of a reality than actual life occurring. This is easily visible when a woman might protest for more aid for the poor directly from the government, but ignores the poor in her own community. She might be walking down the street for a protest and fail to notice the poor man begging for change on the curb. When the news is bad, it creates panic in society, as if America will ultimately fail, however, when the news is good, people become oblivious to the negative things going on in their own
Egypt- The Nation of Egypt is poor with a lower-middle income rate. The nation is overpopulated. There is also high risk of an outbreak of communicable diseases. Lot of price
All throughout Ethiopia’s history there has never been a famine so disastrous as the one that occurred 1984. Throughout the period of drought and misery a total of eight million people were at risk of starvation. Not only that but in october 1984 the death toll was at two hundred thousand and an estimated of two thousand people would die each day. As each month changed so did the death toll. Though the relationship was the more time that passed the more people were at risk. (Nwaozuzu). Reporters who visited to help said that “People looked more like skeletons than human beings” (Fradin 55). There was also recorded to be a 5 year old that only weighed 27 pounds, less than a small dog (Thurow). Altogether, almost all the population of Ethiopia was effected by the Famine.
Everyone has their perfect world, yet life is lived in the real world filled with people working and fighting for their perfect world. There are many major world wide problems that affect people’s everyday lives like, war, racism, and people struggling some sort of way. People are discriminated everyday based on their color of skin, sexual preferences, and religious beliefs. People all around the world struggle everyday just to get by. War goes on everyday and kills many innocent people .
In the healthcare system, the major problem is preventable communicable diseases and different nutritional disorders. A statistic from 2010 states, “More than 90% of child deaths are due to pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal problems, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS, and often a combination of these conditions” (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 2010, pg. 3). These diseases are widely preventable, however, when the healthcare system is lacking, the people of Ethiopia are negatively impacted. In Ethiopia, the life expectancy for females is 62 years of age, and for males it is 65 years of age. The probability of a person dying under the age of five years old is 68 out of 1000. The probability of dying between 15 and 60 years of age is variant depending on gender. Out of a 1000 people, 250 females and 212 males, will die between 15 and 60 years of age. Healthcare status in this
Regardless of a paramount reduction in the rate of poverty in the midst of the past four decades, poverty is still normal in the country. More than 28 million people, or 34 percent of the population, get not precisely USD 1 consistently. The photograph is not particular in whatever is left of Africa. In this way, internal strategies are gaged towards engaging poverty at the Ethiopian or African level. In Ethiopia, around 84 percent of the poor are arranged in commonplace areas; surmising poverty is basically a nation wonder, with the considerable larger piece of people depending after cultivating for employment and income. Cultivating growth, likewise, offers a conceivably monster open entryway for poverty reducing in the country, particularly when the growth is wide based. In like way, provincial frustration mixes poverty and sustenance insecurity in such agrarian economies (DFID, 2005). Climate change and the related characteristic defilement are ascending as vast challenges to Ethiopian agriculture and poverty helping
Over time, quite a number of names have been suggested in an attempt to describe the so called developing countries. Some of the names that have been suggested in this case include but they are not limited to the Third World, less-developed countries, underdeveloped nations, developing world etc. In this text, I suggest a term which in my opinion should be utilized when referring to countries regarded poor or less industrialized. In so doing, I will also highlight the theoretical perspective my selected term best reflects.