Wednesday, September 8, 2010

True life story of an african child

i found some informations about children who live in africa. Life is very difficult in Africa especially in the villages and small towns. Most poeple in Africa are subsistence farmers who grow crops and real animals just to feed themselves and their families. Most villages in Africa have no schools and the children in these villages end up subsistence farmers just like their poor parents. In sub-Saharan Africa, most farmers have large acres of cocoa farms attached to their regular farms. Even though cocoa is a cash crop, the poor farmers get very little from their cocoa farms because most of the times the cocoa farms get infected and since the farmers have no money to spray their cocoa farms, their hard work just go in vain.
Also, since most of these farmers are subsistence farmers who depend on their farms for food and support, whenever there is a bad harvest ( in time of drough and bad weather conditions), their entire families go hungry for the entire season. Most villages in Africa have no access to good drinking water.  Most children wake up very early in the morning and walk miles upon miles to nearby streams to fetch drinking water and water for domestic purposes. Most of the streams in Africa are full of water-borne diseases such as river blindness, sleeping sickness, diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid, and other water based diseases like guinea worm, and Bilharzias. Guinea worm disease for example is a major health problem in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Due to water scarcity in certain parts of Northern and Eastern Africa, most village poeple in these areas stuffer from water-scarce diseases like trachoma and scabies.

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