Our only option to save our children is to invest in the welfare of these children
KOLAHOO: Poverty is spreading like a silent epidemic in our deteriorating society where most of the children are deprived of basic rights like the right to quality education, a meal and so on.
It is unfortunate to say that most of the developed countries have reached over the moon but we are still stuck in tackling basic problems and various outcomes, be it poverty or terrorism.
According to a research conducted by the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund, until the world focuses on the plight and gross situations of the disadvantaged children, 69 million children will die from preventable diseases by 2030 while 167 million will live in poverty by 2030. And in Pakistan we are continuously failing our children.
About 80 per cent of the deaths of children under five years of age happen in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and half of these deaths occur in just five countries — Pakistan, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Nigeria.
Our only option to save our children is to invest in the welfare of these children lest we become a country where our children die a brutal death every day.
Zeeshan Nasir
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2018.
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