DP 2: What Should We Do?"

After reading and doing research on the poverty in Africa, i think we should give $2 a week to the Millennium campaign. This campaign has 8 goals, to eliminate extreme poverty, achieve education for all, promote gender equalities and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, improve HIV, AIDS, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development. I know it is hard for people to give up something such as money, but if we start off small that money can add up and save lives. Usually one thing can lead to another, for example aid can help pay for a child's education. Increasing financing could help end school fees, pay for more teachers in the classroom, buy more meals that contain locally produced foods and invest that money in water and power so women don't have to spend their lives fetching water. 1.8 million children will die of dehydration due to diarrhea. It seems so easy, all they need to live is a handful of sugar, a bottle of clean water, and a pinch of salt. If we could send supplies to Africa we would be saving so many lives. Most people don't do that though because they don't know where to send their money. With orginazations such as Millennium they make it easy to send money. Orginazations such as theone.com you can send a message to your senators and representatives to move the Global Child Survival Act forward so we can start saving children.