The area of the world I chose is Bangladesh. The reasons why: the name of this region and I was curious to learn about the children and families living in this region.
The challenges children are facing are:
Protection:Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child-marriage in the world. Thirteen-percent of children are involved in child-labour. Child labourers are frequently denied an education and are vulnerable to violence and abuse. Bandgladesh has one of the lowest rates of birth registration in the world. This makes it difficult to protect children from tracfficking, child labour, and child marriage.
Education: Only eighty-percent of students enrolled in first grade complete primary school. There are high drop out rates and poor quality teaching and learning are serious problems for primary schools. Only forty-six percent of boys and fifty-three percent of girls attend secondary school.
Over half of these families live below the poverty line. Eighty-percent of people survive on less than two-dollars a day. As food prices rise around the globe, the same income buys less and less each week. Families are working harder to meet the basic needs for their children.
The ways these experiences might effect on children's emotional well-being and emotional includes stress, uncertanity,and fear that comes with living in poverty, lack of education, working for child labour, or child trafficking. In addition, these children will grow up with emotional scars that could affect their well-being of becoming a productive adult.
The information I gained this week has helped me to be aware of the serious problems that children and families are going through. As and educator, it is important to be supportive,caring, and understanding while interacting and teaching children whether they are living inside or in another country. All children are special and deserved to be protected and treated the same.
Reference
http://unicef.org/bangladesh/overview_4841.htm?q=printme
Talae,
ReplyDeleteThe challenges you've mentioned can have lasting effects on children's readiness for school and later on their performance in school. Children raised in poverty complete far less education than middle class children, due in part to their lowered ability to learn in school. The opportunity to help disadvantaged children attain a more equal start in schooling is in the earliest years of life, when children’s brains are developing most rapidly, and the basis for their cognitive, social and emotional development is being formed.
We continue to recognize how challenging our roles are and thus we have to be on the alert for signs of emotional behavior that may prevent children from reaching their fullest potential.
Thanks for posting!
Talae,
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad to hear that young children are subjected to labor and are contributing to their household. Although this is a country that is less fortunate, I think the people and society need to realize that the children are the future and if the children continue to work at these factories some may not live to see thirty. Thanks for sharing your research and information.