Wk4Blog Assignment
I didn’t realize my family
and I were living in poverty until I became old enough to understand that we were
poor. Our Parents had four boys’ ages two weeks and four, five and 10 years old
and one girl. I was only two years old at the time. My father work very hard
trying to provide for us. Unfortunately, for all of us, our mother died leaving
behind five children and a husband. We had to live in government housing for
ten years or more until we graduated from high school. Our family gain stress from
being hurry because we had very little to eat. We didn’t have a lot of toys to
play with so we would make our toys. Therefore, we didn’t have enough money to take
care of all our needs. Such as medical, Food, clothes and shoes were limited growing
up. My brothers and I encounter consequence growing up and sometimes
complications and problems after our mother death. It brought hardship among
the entire family. However, my great aunt moved from Houston, Texas
to live with us as our caregiver who only received hundred dollars a check from
the Social Security Office. Even though she lived with us and tried to help we
were still living in poverty but we weren’t starving. However, my father needed
someone to watch us while he went to work and school. Aunt Lillian would iron clothes for wealthy families
to eared extra money during the week. There were times he just didn’t have money
after paying bills. Therefore, we had to eat whatever was in the house. On some
school days we didn’t have lunch bags and had to take empty ButterKrest bread
bags to put our lunch inside. The children at school would laugh. For example,
some days we would eat sandwiches and chips for dinner it we didn’t have
anything else. My oldest brother would make grits which tasted awful but we would
eat it because we were hungry. A lot of days my father would borrow money, so we
wouldn’t be hurry. Sometimes he wouldn’t eat he would only feed us. Also, if we
had a loose tooth and my father couldn’t afford to take us to the dentist, he take
a piece of thread and tie it around our tooth and the other end of the thread
he would tie it to the doorknob and shut the door and our tooth would come out.
If our stomach hurt my aunt would make
some medicine out of Castrol, cornstarch and with a teaspoon of whisky and
shake it up and give us a tea spoon. After, she would give us a taste of orange
soda to make us feel better. My father would give my oldest brother a dollar to
take to the chicken stand next door by our house, because the manager and my
dad made arrangements so my dad would send
my brothers and myself to knock on the back door and they would give us the
left over chicken in a brown paper bag after closing and my father would heat
it up in the oven and cook a large can of corn to served with it and we ate our
dinner. We will walk to the store and
buy cereal and milk to eat on the weekend every now and then we have bacon and
eggs. Sometimes pancakes with syrup. I recall during my early childhood we had
second hand clothing that was given by some of the military families who drop off
clothes at my father’s job at the hospital.
My aunt would wash and starch our clothes for us and they would look new so we could go to school looking nice and clean. Sometimes, we had to wear shoes that were too little or too big. Sometimes we had to put tissue paper at the toe so they would fit. Next, there were times my brothers and I had to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of our shoes until our father could afford to buy us some more shoes. If we complained to my great aunt and our dad, they would say, “Thank God you have shoes there are a lot of children who don’t have shoes”.
On Sunday’s our entire family came together
and brought food and we’ll have a big meal for all of the children and adults. They
will bring dishes such as, vegetables and meats, breads, cakes or pies and the
adults and children in the family would eat at grandma apartment. Together my
aunt, grandmother and father showed us how to survive. My family and my self
would go to church and every summer my brothers and my self would attend a Summer Vocational
Bible School. Furthermore, we had join the community parks a
Recreation center, because the services provided a healthy lunch and the
workers would feed us as long as we participated in the program activities. I
would clean a school teacher house on the weekends she paid me five dollars to
clean her whole house. Five dollars would make me feel rich but it was a lot
back in those days. I was in junior middle school and needed to make extra
money for myself to buy the things I wanted to wear by saving my money. Simply,
because I got tried of being teased and the children calling me Grandma at
school because the dresses I had were too long. When I became sixteen years old
I work for a summer program and was able to buy my clothes and shoes for the
next following school term until I was able to finish high school.
My aunt would wash and starch our clothes for us and they would look new so we could go to school looking nice and clean. Sometimes, we had to wear shoes that were too little or too big. Sometimes we had to put tissue paper at the toe so they would fit. Next, there were times my brothers and I had to put a piece of cardboard at the bottom of our shoes until our father could afford to buy us some more shoes. If we complained to my great aunt and our dad, they would say, “Thank God you have shoes there are a lot of children who don’t have shoes”.
How we were able to survive was by having faith and believing in God and
praying. We were able to cope with ramifications by staying together as a
family and work together and attending church to help one another. My father
and aunt loved and cared for us very much because they did provide for us when
we couldn’t provide for ourselves. My father was a good man and our Aunt was a good
lady and we where happy to have them in our lives. I know I can speak for all
of us, because they showed us how much they love and care for us doing these
crises. My father never left his family or gave us up for adoption.
The approach I read on is about child poverty
in Vietnam,
observing the multidimensional of the poorest children living conditions that
are taking place in this urban regional.
In Vietnam it is consider that every
third child is to be multidimensionality poor. Therefore, children who are in
living in poverty due to water sanitation, leisure, shelter, child labor, education
and there is an incidence depth of severity among infants and well as children.
Also, 20% of all children which is the large majority who live in large urban
rural divide and regional disparities, are in the Northern Mountains
regions experience the deepest and most severe poverty.
The children living in the
mountains regions doesn’t have hygienic sanitation facility, In other words
their house’s don’t have private piped water to protect the sewerage septic
tanks when flash their toilets and this consist of a percentage of all children
in ages from 0-15. There is no clean drinking water, therefore it is not safe
for them to drink may cause deaths to an unborn infants or children to be
subject to some kind of impairment to
their mental and physical abilities.
Furthermore, there are child labor laws that are broken due to poverty
and most children ages 5-14 work for an employer in household production or
self- employment, are a family member, a rice field, business or begging on the
streets. Some children might get paid and there are some who don’t get paid for
working, regardless of how many hours the work.
Therefore, leisure is another poverty concern for the young children ages
from 0-4 who don’t have any store brought toys are anyone to make them toys.
As for as education children 0-4 don’t have at least one book or picture
book to look at are have some one to read to them. Also, most children ages
5-15 not enrolled in school or haven’t completed primary schools.
The social poverty includes children ages 0-4 don’t have a birth
registration.
Of the estimated 2.2 billion
children worldwide, about a billion, or every second child, live in poverty.[23]
Of the 1.9 billion children in developing nations, 640 million are without
adequate shelter; 400 million are without access to safe water; 270 million
have no access to health services.[24]
In 2003, 10.6 million children died before reaching the age of five, which is
equivalent to the total child population of France,
Germany, Greece, and Italy.[25]
1.4 million die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water and
adequate sanitation while 2.2 million die each year due to lack of
immunizations.
Child Poverty in Vietnam: Providing Insights Using
a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model
Keetie Roelen Franziska Gassmann ChrisdeNeubourg
What is done to minimize the poverty in Vietnam
According to; PRESS RELEASE
World Bank Group to Invest $700 Million by 2015 to Improve Women and Children’s Health in Poor Countries
September 23, 2013
NEW YORK CITY, September 23, 2013 — Today at the United Nations, World Bank
Group President Jim Yong Kim will announce that the Bank Group projects at
least $700 million in financing through the end of 2015 to help developing
countries reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for women and
children’s health. This new funding comes from the International Development Association
(IDA), the World Bank Group’s fund for the poorest countries, and will enable
national scale-ups of successful pilot reproductive, maternal, and child health
projects that were made possible by support from the Bank Group’s Health
Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) and IDA. This announcement follows
President Kim’s September 2012 commitment to help scale up funding for MDGs 4
and 5 as part of the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child global
partnership.“We need to inject greater urgency into our collective efforts
to save more women and children’s lives, and evidence shows that results-based
financing has significant impact,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. “The World Bank Group is
committed to using evidence-based approaches to help ensure that every woman
and every child can get the affordable, quality health care necessary to
survive and live a healthy, productive life.” World Bank Group to Invest $700 Million by 2015 to Improve Women and
Children’s Health in Poor Countries http://www.worldbank.org
Reference:
Child Poverty in
Vietnam:
Providing Insights Using a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model.
Child Poverty in Vietnam: Providing Insights Using
a Country-Specific and Multidimensional Model
Keetie Roelen FranziskaGassmann ChrisdeNeubourg
World Bank Group to Invest $700 Million by 2015 to Improve Women and Children’s Health in Poor Countries
http://www.worldbank.org
