Welcome to the International Development Page!
We write about human rights, poverty, living conditions, refugees and everything else, so that we can provide students with up-to-date information about our world today, and empower you with knowledge.
Please scroll down to see the articles, and feel free to leave us a comment!
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Post 7: Helping Haiti
Haiti saw its worst earthquake in two centuries on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The already impoverished country now deals with collapsed buildings, damaged roads, and destroyed telephone lines, but these are the least of the people’s problems. Survivors drive up and down the streets calling the names of their loved ones, not knowing where they may be or what has happened to them. Those fortunate enough to have each other ponder about potential sources for food and water.
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Post 6: Free and Fair in Afghanistan
If you’re old enough to vote, you know how easy it is to take that right for granted. On voting day, we have easy access to the polls, and we have live coverage of elections to give us second by second details. There are a lot of campaigns out there that encourage youth to vote. We cannot deny how important it is to voice our opinions to those running our countries. There are opportunities for you to be educated about the policies which candidates represent.
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Post 5: UNICEF targets Education
I grew up in a family where education was seen as a must. My parents always emphasize how important and precious education is to a young individuals and what a wonderful an opportunity we have to study. From our perspective, education is wonderful and accessible. But the other perspective – where education is inaccessible – is alarming.
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Post 4: Child Mortality Rates Decline Globally
“The number of children dying before their fifth birthdays each year has fallen below nine million for the first time on record, a significant milestone in the global effort to improve children’s chances of survival, particularly in the developing world, according to data that UNICEF will release on Thursday. The child mortality rate has declined by more than a quarter in the last two decades — to 65 per 1,000 live births last year from 90 in 1990 — in large part because of the widening distribution of relatively inexpensive technologies, like measles vaccines and anti-malaria mosquito nets.”
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Post 3: We can Afford to Eradicate Extreme Poverty
Would you give up two bowls of rice and vegetables to help treat a sick family member? An easy “yes” probably escaped your mouth. What if those two bowls of rice are all you can afford in the span of a day? You can navigate away from this page and choose never to contemplate this question ever again, but a number of our fellow human beings face this sort of dilemma on a daily basis. In fact, Hugh Evans, an inspiring 26-year-old Australian, would maintain there are 1.4 billion reasons to contemplate this problem, even if you don’t have to – because 1.4 billion humans live in extreme poverty, and they don’t have a choice.
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Post 2: Youth are the Future – Literally. No Pressure.
Its 16 degrees Celsius.
It’s dark outside and a cold, icy breeze nips at your ears and your fingertips as you curl into a fetal position on the cement sidewalk. Next to your face there is a burnt cigarette butt, and you lean up against a garbage can to block the bitter wind.
These are the conditions that two young boys in Iqaluit were sleeping on July 26th, 2009. Imagine choosing to live outside in the cold, because you don’t want to go home in fear of adults drinking.
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Post 1: Where in the World is Water?
Did you know, that the amount of water needlessly leaked from faucets in the western world is actually enough to sustain 1 billion people in developing nations?
Whoa.
Approximately 71.11% of our planet is made up of water. Such a large figure tends to allow individuals to be complacent, and assume that human life can be sustained by this rather large magic number. Despite the amount of water our planet contains, in actuality, we can only use a small amount.
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Posted by Ardak on July 22, 2009 at 3:40 PM
International Development is a huge topic for discussion. Simply because there is a lot to talk about it, it is very interesting topic. I would love to read more about history of International development because in my opinion before we know about the current development, we have to be aware of the past… Also, I would love to write about it.
Posted by ChangeTomorrow'sWorld President on July 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Hello Ardak!
Thank you for your wonderful comment. As the blog is in developmental phases (evident by our lack of articles which are still currently being written), your comment means a lot. It tell us we’re on the right track, and we’re writing about topics that people are interested in.
I agree with you – International Development as a topic of discussion with many facets, and many different kinds of people can provide insight and opinion to the topic. History of the international development is a great topic, thank you for suggesting it.
I would be happy to take you up on your offer – if you would like, you can submit an article about International Development, and its history, and we can review it and post it up for our readers. You can email your submission to changetomorrowsworld@gmail.com.
I’m curious, what about International Development history, specifically, catches your interest?
Posted by Ardak on July 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM
I think it must be very interesting for other people to know the ways our World became interconnected. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, The Cold War and many other people/events have impacted the International Development. I was just starting to write about it in details and then realized that this is not an ISP project. So, I will definitely write something about this article.
Posted by ChangeTomorrow'sWorld President on July 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM
An excellent idea! Thank you for sharing! And you are welcome to leave as detailed of a comment as you like, anytime.
I look forward to your article, and I’ll also do some research as well as get some of my own writers onto this idea, see if we can generate some ideas for a potential article.
You know, the stories of Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo are SO interesting. Its funny, we look back at them and think they are ignorant, but what we know about the world is thanks to daring, imaginative people like them. I can’t imagine the idea of thinking the world is flat, and that you could get to the ‘edge’ of the world, and fall off. Boy, that would do something for people’s nerves. It would take a lot of courage to actually try to get to the end of the world!
But courage like that brings discoveries of amazing proportions.