There are been a consistent campaign to improve conditions around the world in regards to poverty, education, sanitation, hunger, and child mortality. Several non-government organization (NGO), charitable establishments, and non- profit corporations work to advance impoverished countries and decrease disparities. These agencies partner with local, national, and international institutions to promote their particular health or educational agenda. Although, these establishments face financial shortfalls at times, they have managed to improve condition around the world in some areas. Bolivia is a country with many complex cultures, geography obstacles, several indigenous populations, a history of political turmoil, and poverty. It is one of the poorest countries in South America. Bolivia faces many third world problems with poverty being the biggest factor for many of these issues. There are alarming figures with ratios that vary from six out of ten to nine out of ten live in poverty or extreme poverty in Bolivia (Castillo-Carniglia, Weisstaub, Aguiree, Aguilar, & Araya 2010).
The United Nations has developed Millennium goals to eliminate inequalities around the world. One of the intentions is to improve quality of life by extinguishing hunger and poverty globally. The purpose of this paper is to probe how poverty effects nutrition in the country of Bolivia and discuss possible strategies to effect change for better outcomes.
Health Data Bolivia is a country with ten
In the book the presence of the country’s poverty and drug war are presented. Both proving as challenges for the main character, Diego. Poverty is seen in the beginning of the book when Diego is in the town running errands as a taxi. In 2012 Bolivia had a population of approximately 10,290,003. This places the country in 83rd on the scale for the most populated countries.
While most people know that eating well is important to staying healthy and for prolonging life, poverty makes it difficult to access good nutritious food. Easy access to abundant food is not
In this report I will give a brief overview of the history, economy and culture of Bolivia. Bolivia was one of the first countries in the Spanish Empire to attempt a break from Spain, but it was one of the last to succeed. The Spanish
The capital of Bolivia is La Paz. Bolivia is the most impecunious country in South America, which is depressing, but things have gotten better over the past 20 years. La Paz is the highest capital in the world, sitting about 12,000 feet above sea level. La Paz translates to “the peace,” which is abbreviated for “the Peace of Ayacucho.” They had an unscrupulous government, taking money from our people, affecting its economy in a terrible way. Bolivia has the second biggest area of natural gas in South America and also has El Mutun, which is the world’s biggest amount of magnesium and iron, but it is difficult for people to utilize our crops to acquire richness because of its terrible environment and horrible government. The Peace of Ayacucho
Did you know that 1 out of 100 people in Bolivia have a car? Bolivia is not a rich country, in fact is it the poorest country in South America. Bolivia is a very interesting country, because of its Land,Weather, its people, and its animals.
Being one of the top ten smallest countries in South America, Bolivia has many different things you may not know about including their, climates, vegetation and tourist attractions. Although Bolivia is underestimated about what it has, it has one of the best GDP’s and is one of the most visited countries in the region.
Bolivia is a very cultural place with a unique background. Bolivia has very few jobs in agriculture but many jobs in other departments. Bolivian families can include several children before marriage and can range even further after. Health care is very rare and not easily accessible. Many crops are common here, however, they have very uncommon ways of preparing their product. Many devastating agricultural issues plague Bolivia. Families in Bolivia who farm are usually poor for many reasons. Malnutrition is a large issue in Bolivians daily lives. Bolivia's water supply it tainted and cause millions of deaths per year. Education for rural children is very low as well as insufficient.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is an international organization present in 190 countries (Unicef, n.d.). It is an agency focused on the area of maternal and child health. Recently, the organization is providing fresh water and food for mothers and children, education for mothers and girls, and immunization programs for children (Unicef, n.d.). The advantages for this program are the benefits to the education and health of the women and children, but the disadvantages are ability to retrieve funds all the time, and providing care to everyone. They have to have a focused topic, like they do, in order to start to care for the population. There are many issues in the third world countries that go beyond the abilities of one organization,
Poverty levels in South America are also very high. Woman in rural areas in South America are make up a big amount of the poorest of the poor (IFAD, 2009). The poorest people are the “Indigenous peasant communities in remote mountain areas in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador” (IFAD, 2009). Recent economic crisis has led to
The market’s demand for Bolivian people to be healthier. Malnutrition is crippling Bolivia,. Malnutrition poses the greatest risk to pregnant women and young children. Healthier populations have lower fertility rates, higher labor productivity, and national investment over time. Improvements in health set in motion rising family incomes and usually poverty reduction Twenty-five percent of Bolivian children under the age of three years old have or currently suffering from malnutrition. Malnutrition for children in the poorest households is 40 percent.
Bolivia is a country that has deep, entrenched, systematic racism at the core of its history. Constituting more than 60 percent of the populace, Bolivia has the largest indigenous population in the Western Hemisphere. Literally conquered by Spanish conquistadores, this indigenous population has been marginalized and discriminated against at every turn despite their majority status.
Care organization is a humanitarian, who works for people to save their lives. It operates in all over the world and always takes a stand to help people. There are so many core problems addressed by this organization, but mainly they fight for women’s empowerment, health related issues, world hunger, education and economic development. According to Robert Wilton (2004) in 1991, 27% of people in Canada suffered from mental illness because they were lived in a sick society (p. 26). Poverty directly affects to the people health because people are having an insufficient amount of money and with they cannot fulfill their basic family needs. According to Nah, S., & Chau, C. (2010) there are 1.02 billion people are undernourish in all over the world. Hunger is one of the primary cause of children deaths and every year 6 million children died cause of starvation (p. 544). Food is the basic need of every single person, and it is impossible for anyone to survive without food. Social innovation plays a vital role to fight completely with this kind of serious issues that affects people lives poorly. According to Moulaert et al. (2013), social change leads to improve social relations and empowerment process. Imagine critically and modify the world with innovation solutions to the existed problems in the world (as cited in Groot, A., & Dankbaar, B., 2014, p. 18).
Not unlike many of the Southern American countries which were colonized by Spanish conquistadors, Bolivia was imperialized by spaniards in the 16th century through the defeat of the Incan Empire. The native population of Bolivia was thrust immediately into poverty and slavery, though they avoided the major devastation of European disease which ravaged through other native settlements which had been imperialized. Spaniards put slaves to work mining and “By the end of the 17th century, the mineral wealth had begun to dry up.” (Infoplease) Bolivia gained its independence in 1825 and suffered from much turmoil within and without its borders. It lost much land to outside forces, and political instability, as is common among recently independent countries, contributed to a loss of diminishing wealth. The country currently sits on the second largest natural gas deposit in the world, and also contains much oil, but due to lack of capitalism in the country, it has yet to draw upon this large advantage. Currently, “the country ranks 108th out of 187 countries on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index” (IFAD) About 60% of Bolivians are impoverished, and most of this poverty is among the indigenous population. The country suffers such poverty due to: Lack of capitalism, lack of rural roads or forms of easy transportation, limited access to institutions such as schools and hospitals. There are several solutions to the problems present in
In sub-Saharan Africa, just under one in every four people, or 23.2 percent of the population, is estimated to be undernourished in 2014–16 (FAO et al., 2015). This is the highest prevalence of undernourishment for any region in the World and, with about 220 million hungry people in 2014–16, the second highest burden in absolute terms. The number of undernourished people increased by 44 million between 1990 to 92 and 2014 to 2016. In the Central African sub region, the number of undernourished people more than doubled between 1990–92 and 2014–16 (FAO et al., 2015). The lack of progress in the rate of undernourishment in absolute terms reflects prevailing problems in the sub region, notably poor food consumption patterns caused amongst others by limited understanding on the dimensions of food security, political instability and forest degradation. It is therefore absolute to carry out investigations to properly understand the dimensions of food security especially with changing environmental conditions. Promoting the consumption of fruits in poor communities and amongst vulnerable groups could help in addressing problems of nutrient deficiency and malnutrition (Kehlenbeck et al., 2013; Place et al., 2013; Tchoundjeu et al., 2012).
According to Ahasan, Abu, and Katy (13), NGOs or non-governmental organizations are settings staffed by volunteers and altruistic employees who work with missions of satisfying ideologies rather than ends of financial interests. Donors are the sources of the NGOs funding. NGOs are the best hope for the poorest people in the world since poverty is a global disaster and with their support, it is a stepping stone for the affected nations to eradicate poverty (Sandhya, 2). For the attainment of international goals, reduction of poverty is vital. The philosophy that underlies poverty alleviation programs is to handle matters of poverty in rural areas by endowing the poorest people in the world with training and productive assets to