 BASIC HEALTH & EDUCATION FOR NON AFFORDABLE POOR ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN/WOMEN/OLD AGED
TO HELP DESERVING POOR TO LIVE
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ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR
An estimated 300 million children worldwide are subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse including the worst forms of child labor in communities, schools and institutions; and to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage. Millions more, not yet victims, also remain without adequate protection. Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development.
Every year, an estimated 9.7 million children under the age of five die totally preventable deaths. Some are directly caused by illness such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. Others are caused by indirect causes including conflict and HIV/AIDS. Malnutrition, poor hygiene and lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation contribute to more than half of these deaths. Two thirds of both neonatal and young child deaths — over 6 million deaths every year — are preventable. Half a million women die in pregnancy each year, most during delivery or in the first few days thereafter.
Education is a basic human right, vital to personal and societal development and well being. All children deserve a quality education founded on a rights-based approach and rooted in the concept of gender equality. A rights-based approach to education will address inequalities in our societies that are deep-rooted and often gender-based. Such inequalities exclude millions of children, particularly girls, from school or condemn them to educational experiences of very poor quality.
Education enhances lives. It ends generational cycles of poverty and disease and provides the means for sustainable development. A quality basic education will better equip girls and boys with knowledge and skills needed to adopt healthy lifestyles, to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and to take an active role in social, economic and political decision-making as they transition to adolescence and adulthood. As educated adults, they are more likely to have fewer children, to be informed about appropriate child-rearing practices, and to ensure their children start school on time and are ready to learn.
Poverty, poor health or the absence of legal protection are to be adequately addressed to develop new policy approaches and actions to improve the results of economic, social and rural develop programmes for children and women.
Innovation in saving lives
Existing low-cost, low-technology and high impact interventions such as vaccines, antibiotics, micronutrient supplementation, insecticide-treated bed nets, improved breastfeeding practices and adoption of safe hygiene practices can prevent unnecessary maternal and child deaths and reduce under nutrition.
By packaging services and implementing at scale, high impact and evidence-based maternal, newborn and child survival interventions, we can save millions of lives. By ensuring that all children have access to basic education and by focusing on children marginalized by poverty, HIV/AIDS, conflict and discrimination, we can break the cycle of poverty that keeps children on the brink of survival.
Trust endeavors for basic health and education for all children — girls and boys — with an emphasis on gender equality and eliminating disparities of all kinds. In promoting equity, trust wishes on the most disadvantaged children through a range of innovative programmes and initiatives in education. Accordingly Trust projects a hospital including mobile health units for interior and inaccessible areas so that unaffordable poor especially women/children/old aged would be protected.
It plans to open hostels in interior parts of its area of operation for freed children from bondage and to educate and build their career. |
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