Monday, 23rd August, 2010.
"They are the people with no purchasing power and no influence."
This is absolutely true. The people being referred here are the 'underprivileged' and 'socially backward' individuals who face challenges everyday in their lives. Their problems are overlooked because they have no authority and power. They are the below poverty line families, who suffer gravely from hunger and malnutrition. They put themselves out to secure just one meal of the day and thinking about the next one seems back- breaking. In simple and clear words it is a struggle for 'SURVIVAL.'
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Start-a-hungama/Article1-590317.aspx According to the National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS), approximately 180 million children are chronically malnourished worldwide, more than one-third is in India. Of this, over 8 million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
The World Bank blames poverty and low status of women in our country as the predominant reason for malnutrition. It reveals that half of the children under four are malnourished and majority of the women suffer from aneamia. In order to get rid of this epidemic we need to eradicate poverty and improve the health conditions for women to enhance the quality of life for them and their families.We have to act now to help these people as we belong to the better part of the world.
http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/6/1/1
It may appear to be a less sexy story but it needs immediate attention because a 'healthy nation' can only be a strong and prosperous nation.
Through this blog, I not only want to highlight this serious problem but I also want to appeal to all the people who do not belong to the above category to be grateful for being gifted with perfect health.
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