Childhood poverty research and policy center (CHIP) is a complex and multi-faceted body. It brings education, social protection, health, water, sanitation and agricultural changes to poor children and their families as well as recognizing the sensitivity period for developing cognition, physical vitality and personality. We need to inject new life into the current situations of poor children and their families. Poverty is not created by the poor people but it is created by the system that we all built and the source of poverty derives from the decisions and concepts that people have designed, and theories that have been constructed that made up people’s mind set. The child born on the street is the same as the child born in the rich but events in the society would dictate where people would be or end up. We need to think about the capacity of the child and help with their development to give them the right opportunities in life.
Many decisions about policies to reduce poverty and have better resource allocation are made locally and nationally, however in a world of increasing globalization, available budgets and many policies adopted by national governments are strongly affected by global decisions about trade, aids, and investments
Chika,
ReplyDeletePoverty is a big concept for many nations. The good news is that many nations are seeing it fit to invest in early learning so that we do not make the same mistake of the past. If we do not want the gap between the rich and the poor to increase and widen, then we should start now in working to eradicate poverty. Let advocate for those living in poverty and support those organization like CHIP who works in support of children and families.
Chika-
ReplyDeleteI like you statement-"Poverty is not created by the poor people but created by the system that we all build". That is a great way to look at it. We did create the system so we should be the ones that revamp it. I don't believe that just a few policy makers should make all the decisions. It should be a group effort and the ones living in poverty should have the greatest input.