Our Progress

This post is meant to accompany slide #7 entitled "Our Progress" from my presentation that I gave to the volunteers helping me with my project. The presentation can be found in a post below. I will update this blog with detailed information about the others slides as well.

We have been making tons of improvements in dealing with child poverty and have really helped solve the problems that children around the world are facing. A review published by UNICEF in 2009 found: declines in under-five mortality, less child malnourishment, increases in breast feeding, improved water systems, better education access.

However, it also states that despite these improvements… 24,000 children still die each day from mostly preventable diseases, 150 million 5-14 year olds are involved in child labour, and 100 million primary aged children go without schooling. We still have a long way to go.

The graph above is reproduced here:

And you can check out the full Save the Children report titled "Building Hope in Haiti." It's all about the efforts following the earthquake to create jobs, protect children, train teachers, and educate families about sustainable progress and improvement. Take a look at it here.