Children die due to poverty

                According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. Children at this very moment are crying because they are hungry. Crying because they are sick and in pain. Crying in an orphanage because their parents abandoned them. Crying because of the physical and sexual abuse they suffer every day. Crying because they were taken by human traffickers,

America alone waste 150,000 tons of food each day. Our hungry children in third world countries can used this food. For the few minutes I took to write this post, 180 children already die of hunger. Parents teach your children not to waste food, and appreciate what they have. They are so fortunate they are not among the 22,000 who die each and every day of hunger.                                                                                                                                                                                _Adam Rahman

Child mal-nutrition : Existing interventions failed

             India has enough resources, human and material.  Only 43% of children are introduced to complementary foods in time.  We all know that it is complementary feeding in the first two years of life, coupled  with breast milk, which can arrest mal-nutrition.   After two years, the game is up., so to speak, as far as brain development goes, what is this 43% figure telling us?  That 57% of the children are not fed properly in the first two years of their life, as required.  Children from well-to-do family are not getting adequate nutrition in those formative years. 

Any society, which considers itself human, has to keep in mind to feed complementary food –to reach its “last person”, ie., feeding  severe and chronically mal-nourished child.                                                                                                                                                                         -Neerja Chowdhury 

Compassionate care at the end of life

            Palliative care can directly reduce  catastrophic health  expenditure  and health care costs for the government.  It can free up precious intensive care beds and equipment for those who need it in life saving situations.  All that requires is the will to address the issued. 

Public awareness is all important, if needless suffering is one alleviated.  We need to be aware of the depth of suffering around us.  None of us should judge  someone else’s pain based on our personal experiences.

It is not as if solutions are difficult.  We can treat pain and other symptoms effectively and affordably; Palliative care is low cost.  We can replace in-appropriate Hi-tech intensive suffering with compassionate care aimed at well-being at the end of life.                                                                                                                                                                                                    -Dr. M.R. Rajagopal

China destroys dozens of Muslim graveyards on pretext of standardisation

          “This is all part of China’s campaign to effectively eradicate any evidence of who we are, to effectively make us like the  Han Chinese.  The graveyard were my grand – grand parents were buried was demolished.  That is why they are destroying all of these historical sites, these cemeteries, to disconnect us from our history, from our fathers and our ancestors.

An estimated one million, mostly Muslims ethnic minorities have been rounded up into re-education camps in Xinjiang, in the name of combating religious extremism and separatism”

                                                                                                                             _Z Salih Hudayar