Malnutrition and Child Labor

Just imagine the if the world would be like this one..full of sufferings and sacrifices..
I really cried when i see a child suffering in this kind of conditions, my heart where totally wounded, and i imagine what the world will be if all child were in a situation like this..what will happen in the next generations??..
Malnutrition is a disparity between the amount of food and other nutrients that the body needs and the amount that it is receiving. This imbalance is most frequently associated with under nutrition, the primary focus of this article, but it may also be due to over nutrition.Malnutrition is one of the major problem in the third world country, lack of food are only one common problems that leads to malnutrition, shelter, clothes, water..this are the things that the world needs.
In our country, common problems of malnutrition are Protein lack malnutritin or lack of protein which lead to retardation, Iron deficiency anemia or deficiency in iron which reduce the ability to learn and irritability, Vitamin A deficiency, and iodine deficiency disorders..
(from http://arewhateat.blogspot.com)
In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
Every year 15 million children die of hunger
For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death. About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age. To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year. The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger. It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
Child labor is an illegal employing of a child below 18 years old..Have you seen a child doing a work of a 30 year old man, forced labor doing logging, coal maker, Fishing, and other kinds of work which is not suitable for a child below 18 years old such us prostitution..It makes me sad and its awful feeling that heere in our country we may see child laboring..
The Philippines is literally a young nation with a high percentage of young people in its overall population. Children between ages five and seventeen number 22.4 million, comprising a third of the overall Philippine population. Working children represent sixteen percent of the overall population of children between ages five and seven. That means that one out of every six children work (Working Children 1). In the last twelve months, 3.7 million children ages five to seventeen worked. Children from rural households make up 67.1 percent of this amount and almost half are between the ages of five and fourteen. In addition, in the last week, 2.85 million children between the ages of five and seventeen worked. Of this number, half are between the ages of five and fourteen, consisting of approximately 1.4 million children. These working children consist of largely of boys, who account for 65 percent. As far as the locations where these children work, 60 percent perform unpaid family work in their own households, 17.2 percent work in their own homes and 53 percent work in family farms.
One of the most common jobs for a child slave to carry out is fishing. Forty years ago, fish were so plentiful in the Philippines that one could fish just a stone's throw away from its shores. Today, fisherman sail far and often stay long in the sea to be able to bring home anything. And a net is sometimes more than what they need. Dynamites, Molotov cocktails, and cyanide are frequently used. But others use something else. They use young enslaved boys who are usually brought home dead along with their catch.
in Cebu city, the carton girls..are one of the topic in the previous story of Imbestigador showing that a 12 to 17 years old teen had been expose for prostitution..In a small vacant lot carrying a carton with their customer, for only a 100 pesos this young children will take the risk just to have food on their table..
Lets open our mind, and help this child to go to school, carrying books not carton or a basket, handling pens and erasers not lipstick or a condom.