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Women and Children
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Women spend hours every day collecting water from distant sources. The water is for family members as well as for live stock. Often they travel dangerous areas alone to search for water, even while they are pregnant. In addition, they are expected to cook, collect firewood, tend fields, and care for the sick and children.
Women strongly desire to make life better for their families. They want health care, education, and opportunity for their children.
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Woman on the road to Boji, Ethiopia looks for up to 12 hours
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Women risk going into labor, dying of thirst, or being eaten
by wild animals while searching for water in remote areas. |
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Very few women obtain a formal education beyond the fourth grade. In addition to segregated half the population from critical knowledge to provide a platform for economic development and societal security, critical occupations become all male that creates difficulties for women in a conservative culture. One example is a medical nurse or technician. If a woman develops complications during pregnancy, she is not likely to visit the male medical technician at the village medial field office because of religious and societal beliefs and modesty resulting in threats to infant and mother’s health. Educational opportunities in medical fields, teaching, and other skills will be crucial to developing food and society security in the region. |
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CHILDREN
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Ethiopia and Kenya are known for their poverty and disease. International and domestic aid and development resources are not shared equally within those countries. The
disparities between the welfare of the Liban Zone and the rest of Ethiopia include statistics such as:
Primary school enrollment
Ethiopia: 64.4%
Liban Zone: 15.1% |
Mortality rate for children under 5
Addis Ababa: 11.3%
Liban Zone: 50% |
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In Kenya there are similar disparities. |
Primary school enrollment:
Kenya Central Province: 91.2%
Northeast: 20.5% |
Northeast Kenya people 6-24 who have never attended school
Boys: 72% Girls: 85% |
Northeast Kenyan girls who begin school: 10%
Girls who graduate from the 8th grade: 1% |
Mortality rate for children under five:
Nairobi: 11.5%
Northeast: 50% |
Living on less than a dollar a day:
Kenya: 50%
Northeast Kenya: 76% |
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There is a 50% mortality rate for children under 5. In other words, each year over 500,000 Ethiopian
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Pastoralist children in the poorest, drought stricken areas spend their days gathering water or tending sheep and goats. Children living in small villages spend most of their days collecting water and helping to work around the house or caring for ill and younger children.
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These children in Qadaduma, Ethiopia will wait up to
three months to bathe. The school has almost fallen down and has no
teacher. |
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Eymole, Kenya |
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Moyale District of Ethiopia |
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