It has been approximated that more than three 4ths of the earth’s commodities are answered for by a fifth of the world’s population - and this number is only rising due to the rising gap between the two ends of the global economic spectrum.
The Situation in Africa
Education: The percentage of African residents with the access to decent facilities and resources to receive an education is small, and education is one of the basic building blocks towards a better future. Education not only creates sustainable opportunities for those in need, but also instils momentum. Consider the years old saying; “Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”.
There are over 5 million people living life with HIV/AIDS in South Africa alone - the largest concentration on earth with Nigeria in 2nd place with almost 3 million. According to the World Health Organisation, over 500 million people have serious contact with Malaria every year, and the disease is responsible for 20% of childhood deaths in Africa. These horrible stats arent displaying any recession, and health care issues are one of the most important steps in the road to improving the countries themselves.
Infrastructure: Many African countries do not have a functioning infrastructure. Facilities such as waste management, water reserves and road or rail networks are either in disrepair or practically nonexistent and fundamental services such as health care are few and far between. Third world debt cripples what little growth many of these countries might show. These basic functions of the country cannot be administered to without the funds to create sustainable investment projects.
The Gift of Water: Water is a fundamentally critical demand for every form of life on earth, and is extremely rare in large parts of Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Drinking water and even water for boiling and basic sanitation are not available to a large part of the continent. Water is a rare commodity, and in Africa it means it creates a fine line of life and death, and a lack of water makes simple agriculture and irrigation impossible.
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