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__** Third World Conditions **__

=Distance (by Caitlin G.)= **"Of course I wish I were in school. I want to learn to read and write…. But how can I? My mother needs me to get water." Yeni** **Bazan, age 10, El Alto, Bolivia** We hear about it all the time on the news, but do people really listen? Third world countries are in dire need of clean water. Approximately 1.1 billion people have no access to water that isn’t full of disease,(1) and about 2.4 billion people have no access to appropriate sanitation! (2) In traditional villages, it is up to the women and children to go and collect water for the family. According to charitywater.org, more than 200 million hours of a women’s time is consumed just by collecting water.(3) Most often, the water that they spend all this time collecting isn’t even clean. It is all full of diseases that kill millions of people a year, mostly children. Without clean water, survival is hard. Many face the choice of either getting dehydrated and dying, or walking miles to get water that has deadly diseases. Not to mention the fact they have the chance of getting attacked on the way. The jugs that they carry to receive this water are usually old gas cans, called jerrys.Three of them can weigh as much as a baby giraffe!(2)

Many of these people get stuck in poverty, because the government forces high water prices for clean water. So they either have the choice of drinking unclean water, or being forced into poverty just to buy clean water. "When it comes to clean water, the pattern in many countries is that the poor get less, pay more and bear the brunt of the human development costs associated with scarcity".(4)

=Poverty in South Africa and the Other Nations in Africa (contribution found by Kolby R.):= **//From: http://cozay.com/////How Far People in Third World Countries Walk to Get Water//(1)** ===**Did you know that that 40million people in Africa in poverty. This is a story that is from people that live in poverty daily.** **People in 3rd world countries have been though alot over the years .Most will not serve the night.** ===
 * //“//** [[image:http://cozay.com/documents/poorafrican.jpg width="150" height="100" align="left" caption="poverty and hunger"]]I know poverty because poverty was there before I was born and it has become part of life like the blood through my veins. Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day. Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care". [[image:http://cozay.com/documents/poorgrandma.jpg width="150" height="100" align="right" caption="Poor Grandmother"]] " Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light. Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours but who is there to say some for you? Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish within a blink of an eye. I know poverty and I know poverty just like I know my father's name. Poverty never sleeps. Poverty works all day and night. Poverty never takes a holiday" (1)

Birth rate - South Africa
20.63 births/1,000 population (2001)17.94 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)19.93 births/1,000 population (2009 est.) [|[3]]

Death rate - South Africa
12.6 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)22.4 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est. 16.99 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.)[|[1]]

Deaths - South Africa
599,000 (2006 est.)(2) [|From:http://www.ask.com/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa](This shows that not every one is safe as we think we are.)

References: (1) Smart, Amy. (November 17, 2008) //Clean Water for Africa.// @http://cleanwaterforafrica.blogspot.com/ (2) Water.org. //Water Facts//. @http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts (3) Datagram. (2006-2010) //Why Water.// @http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/ (4) Watkins, Kevin. (2006) //Human Development Report 2006.// @http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR06-complete.pdf **//From: http://cozay.com/////How Far People in Third World Countries Walk to Get Water//(1)** 1.COZAY GROUPwww.cozay.comCopyright 2010Decemer 3,2010(1) 2.NA__ http://www.ask.com/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Africa __, NA Dember 4,2010(2) 3. etc

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