Thursday, December 10, 2009

Unit 2: Guns, Germs, and Steel (revisit)

Somalia, is one of the poorest countries of Africa and poverty in this country was due for many factors, one of the factors was that they had a bad Government, and because they have little food they lead the little children to have a malnutrition, this is getting worse, because people are dying because of hunger, but that's not all, some studies revel that 45 women die every day, and their babies too.

The poverty in Somalia began on 1960s, this was when the country became independent, when the British and the Italian left the country, the government was left too, and now many societies such as UNESCO, are helping Somalia to restore a government that may help Somalia to get out of poverty, but they say that, it will take a long, long time to have success.

And things get worse for little children because sometimes they have to support their families, and if they have a bad luck they have to live in the streets with their family. and the mom has to work, all members of the family work hard, and they said that in a good day they win 18,000 shillings, that's tantamount 50 cents

sources:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/somalia/information/poverty.html
http://www.finance.mapsofworld/economy/somalia/poverty.html
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45482

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