Over one billion people are living in poverty, lacking safe water, housing, food, and the ability to read. There is a high concentration of communities in poverty in Africa; particularly Central Africa. States that are considered in Central Africa are the following: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Republic of Africa, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and the Congo. The majority of these Central African states’ economies are dependent on agriculture. As a result of this dependency, natural disasters
respected film directors. We are given a film that shows the abuses of power and the corruptions of what the French government wants to keep hidden. Black Girl focuses on the transition from the Western World and the oppression within Third World Countries. To draw attention to the Third World/ Western dichotomy, Sembene contribute a considerable amount to the development of politics within Black Girl through our main protagonist Diouana. The challenges she faces as many transitions are made with her
sadness that I watched the documentary. I saw Kenyan children from a small village living in extreme poverty. These children must live with the two most devastating factors to children: poverty and lack of education. If a child’s environment is not nurturing, the child can suffer both mentally and physically. Therefore, poverty and lack of education are both factors that most negatively affect a child. Poverty is the harshest factor for children as it encompasses hunger, lack of access to medical facilities
to send more contraception to poor countries or use other methods to help the women in more poverty areas. Family planning is the planning on when to have a child and the techniques used to follow that plan. Such techniques involve sex education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, preconception counseling and management, and infertility management. On the one hand, some people argue that sending contraception to women in other countries could help deal with family planning
have fled their homes into another country in order to escape war, conflict or some other tragedy. On the other hand, IDP are citizens who fled their homes for the same reasons but remained in their country of origin. There are approximately 12 million refugees and IDP within Africa and almost two-thirds, or 7.7 million, are located in the Horn of Africa (Central Intelligence Agency [C.I.A.], 2011). Despite the high number of refugees and IDP in the Horn of Africa, the focus will be on Eritrea, Ethiopia
act has succeeded in capturing many of the world’s attention. In the continent of Africa, particularly South Africa has been reported for the highest rate of poaching, and ivory of a rhinoceros’s horn, and every day that rate is continuing to skyrocket according to the SADEA (South African Department of Environmental Affairs). Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique and Congo are the primary countries being affected in South Africa from these anonymous poachers. From the year of 2000 to 2013, the rate of poaching
the elephants, they are after their tusk made of ivory. By the end of the day the herd will practically be obliterated with only a small number of lucky survivors. Unfortunately, poaching elephants is not an atypical event throughout man African countries. During the late 1970s through the late 1980s there was a striking reduction in the population of wild elephants from approximately 1.2 -1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 in 1989 (“Economics of Antipoaching Enforcement” 2). However, it is important