AFRICA: PROBLEMS FACING CHILDREN IN SLUMS

About 40 percent of the African population live in slums. From the outskirts of Johannesburg in South Africa to the Interior of Kibera (Africa’s largest and worst slum) in Kenya, life is a living hell for most African slum residents.

Slum houses in Africa are mostly self-built mud houses roofed with rusty corrugated sheets and wooden boards. Slum houses have little or no planning at all. POOR BASIC SANITATION AND POOR BASIC SERVICES.

THERE ARE OPEN DUMPS AND OPEN SEWAGE.

Most slums have no electricity and no pipe borne water. Fires are very common in African slums. There are no hospitals and no good schools. Most children in African slums do not go to school and most get no medical attention when needed. There are just few chemist shops around most of which sell cheap but expired drugs. Majority of the children in African slums have lost either one or both parents. Because of the high illiteracy rate, HIV/AIDS kills in record numbers in African slums mostly women and children.

African slums are mostly lawless areas with no security and no protection at all and violence is very common in these areas. Unnecessary deaths are very common in African slums. Because of poor sanitation in African slums, diseases like malaria and cholera are very common in these areas.

Because of poor sanitation mosquitoes are very common and Malaria kills in record numbers in African slums. The cost of a mosquito net is less than $1 but only few people can afford mosquito nets in African slums.

"Food-insecure people are defined as those consuming less than the nutritional target of 2,100 calories per day per person.”

In Africa are millions of people on the brink of extreme poverty, the people of sub-Saharan Africa remain the most vulnerable.More than eighty million people have become at-risk population due to food shortages throughout the year as a result of the crisis caused by the drought.

According to the ERS study of the USDA, a worsening situation is anticipated in 2013 where the at-risk population could reach 833 million people.

Peopple are suffering in African slums especially women and children.

"HELP...SAVE THE POOR CHILDREN IN AFRICA SLUMS, Collaborating with the organizations that are promoting campaigns to save Africa, PLEASE."

By: Chiara.