Poverty in China

Since my effort to make a contact with professional from another country was failed, so I decided to have a look and research poverty in China. Even though China has a very sustain and strong economic growth, the rate of poverty is very high and still persistent, particularly in remote rural areas. I truly gained some insight about poverty in china while going through the website. The first thing that I amazed to realize is, 4.2 million Chinese children live in absolute poverty and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged conditions. Indeed this huge percentage shows how children and their families are suffering to have their basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, health and education. Likewise, China's transition from a centrally planned to a globalised market economy has helped reduce chronic poverty and disadvantage, but also created new forms of vulnerability and poverty.

 From other side, I also recognized that In China the income inqualities between the eastern and western has risen, and the income gap between rural and urban residents has extremely broadened. Beside, Restrictions on rural-urban migration, all  these reasons  have limited opportunities for rural population to have access to the education and health, and  increased the poverty which influence people and chilren directly

 In fact, all insights that I gained from researching China helped me to understand that poverty is a serious problem that threat many countries and affect the society outcomes. Poverty denies opportunities to people of all ages. Lost opportunities in childhood cannot always be regained later - childhood is a one-off window of opportunity and development.  (CHIP). It is fully important to recognize that children who experience poverty during their early years are more likely to exhibit delay in their cognitive, emotional, and social skills. Thus, I strongly believe that early intervention could play a significant part in reducing poverty’s impact on children.

You can find more information at http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/

Sharing Web Resources

Last week I decided to chose and explore zero to three organizations, and I have registered for their monthly newsletter. This week I will have the opportunity to find out the issues that influencing the infants, toddler, their family, and the early childhood field. Zero to three organization concentrates on fostering the health and development for children. It provides real issues that are related to children's behavior and development and a clear message about maltreatment to babies such as child abuse and trauma, and at the same time offers strategies of care and education to children who live with unique family situations.

The issue that caught my attention while going through their website is an article under maltreatment section called Mobilizing Trauma Resources for children. The article focuses on exploring child trauma and provides definitions, statistics, protective and risk factors, and assessment evaluation strategies and issues. It   emphasizes that Children who are exposing to the neglect, abuse, domestic violent or anything that disrupts their sense of safety and security are more likely to experience psychological and biological problems that can persist far into adulthood. In fact, traumatized children can be manifesting different forms of delay in school, performance, cognitive and emotional abilities. Additonally, The article stresses on the importance of the early intervention, and the way we respond to that risk. When family, school, and community respond to that risk in a timely fashion, the result would be completely positive, it would have huge role in mitigating the harmful effects of stressful experience that children may have during their childhood.

 By reading this article, I have come to realized that the role of family, school, and the community is fully immense, their support can be the major reason toward creating a safe and security environment for children, and assisting them to cope and recover from traumatic experiences. . Thus, is very essential that family should strive to build a strong relationship with their children and assure them their ideas and perspectives are respected and valued. In fact, The reciprocal relation is tend to be the treatment for many issues that children might experiencing during their early years of development.  

References

http://www.zerotothree.org/

Establishing professional contacts and Expanding resources

When I read the assignment for this week that is required to establish a professional contact with other from outside the united state, I initiate to send emails to UNICEF Iraq and UNICEF Syria and to some other website. I preferred to expand my knowledge about these two countries because children in these two countries are suffering from lack of all kinds of services. In Iraq, children are undergoing through a tough time due to the wars, sectarian tension, and the economic instability, thus many children are left their school to help their families affording the burden of lives. In Syria, because of the current revolution, many children are deprived from care, education, and health. For these reasons, I decided to explore and learn about what the Uncief is doing in these two countries in regards of children’s issues, and in which way there are contributing to the child wellbeing. Hence, I sent them emails, willing to understand from them how they are addressing children’s challenges, the issues that touch their lives every day, and what in particular can they do to improve children’s lives. Until now, I did not get any response from them, but I will not give up, I will maintain my correspondence with them to understand much more about children’s situation in these two countries. As I went searching UNICEF Iraq website, I read by the press release that 5.3 million children are still deprived from many rights. That is sad and break the heart to hear that in a rich country like Iraq, children are still cannot have access to many services like education, health, water, and other basic needs.

 

 The organization that I have decided to explore is   Zero to three. I have chosen this organization because I have found it as a great resource of information that would definitely broaden my knowledge about all aspect of children’s development. Zero to three is a national, nonprofit organization that trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. I also registered for their newsletter in order to have it on my personal email. This newsletter would be monthly, and I cannot wait to receive it and learn about the issues that would address during this month.

In fact, the assignment of this week arouse my curiosity to go through many website and organization to discover who the children around the world are developed based on what type of the services are render there, and what can we do as professional to assist children to thrive and develop normally.

Resources

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html

http://www.zerotothree.org/