Denmark Speech Model United Nations

Somalia is a country in Africa which is suffering from famine, low resource, etc.  The Al-Shabbab terrorist group prevents anyone from entering and leaving the country and prevents everyone from entering which prohibits people to help Somalia. Our group represented Denmark and developed the opening address and resolution to deal with the crisis in Somalia. Please do read our speech

Child Soldiers on Sierra Leone "What's going on"

The video was about children in Sierra Leone taken as servants or soldiers at a young age. I felt very emotional when the children found their parents at the end especially the bald African child found his mother after a long period in a day-care center. It's very sad how children from a young age are drug tested to fight. Around 10,000 children are used as tools of war in South Africa.

UN Child Labor in Brazil

Recently in class, we watched a video which really was shocking. 1/2 the population in Brazil are in poverty (7 million children). Child labor is a dangerous job because you can get diseases and illnesses.Children in the world have to work to survive while we go to school and have an education. The children don't really have a choice but to earn money to buy food. I felt very heartbroken when Reinaldo, a 9 year-old boy had to break rocks which makes his hands extremely tired due to the hammering. He has to work since his mother doesn't have enough money to provide the family. Another story that I found shocking was when Leandra da Silva, an eleven year-old girl had to spend night and day picking up cans and bottles in a dump. I was really confused how Leandra's mother didn't want her daughter to have a better life by having an education at the first place.

Comparisons between Countries

Some statistics that I was really shocked was between the five countries was how the people in Japan and Denmark could almost all read and write since they are the wealthiest countries among the rest of the others and how 12.6% of females in Afghanistan could read and write but 43.1% males could read and write which is a huge difference although one of the goals that Afghanistan need to work on is gender equity. Another shocking news that I found was that Denmark had only 0.4 deaths in 100 live births which is very low since the population is 5,529,888, the lowest population among the other countries.