Natural Disaster in Our World

Where I am living now in 2007 a tornado hit this small town.  It sort of happened out of nowhere and it was pretty catastrophic damaging our hospital and put a lot of people in danger that night.  I was actually going to school at the time and living on campus.  I remember this time like it was yesterday because I was playing baseball for the school and we was suppose to have a game that next day.  I have never experienced such silence before and that next day was so sad for a lot of people in this town.  Everyone was walking around looking at the damages this tornado caused.  I always seen it or heard about it on television, never was I expecting such pain from an innocent town.  It took a while for this to build up and we have just recently gotten the hospital back in full force last year I believe.  

Two out of every three people face hunger as Haiti woes increase (Sweet, 2013).  Research shows that in 1997, 1.2 million Haitians didn't have enough food to eat (Sweet, 2013).  A decade later the number had more than doubled.  Today, that figure is 6.7 million, or a staggering 67 percent of the population that goes without food some days, can't afford a balanced diet or has limited access to food, according to surveys by the governments' National Coordination of Food Security (Sweet, 2013).  As many as 1.5 million of those face malnutrition and other hunger-related problems.  The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.  The hair on very skinny children has turned patchy and sort of orange, their stomachs have ballooned to the size of their heads and many look half their age which is a true sign of malnutrition (Sweet, 2013).     

Reference

Sweet, D. (2013, June 10).  Hunger in Haiti Worse Than Ever.  Retrieved from 

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/hunger-haiti-worse-ever#sthash.SkIAVGlV.dpbs

Access to Healthy Water

This topic is extremely meaningful to me because healthy and clean water is the essential part of a healthy lifestyle.  Water makes up over 70 percent of our overall body and 75 percent of our brain, 80 percent of our blood and a whopping 96 percent of our liver.  Water is included in practically every facet of our health, and drinking ample quantities of clean water each day is crucial.  Shortages can have serious effects.  A 5 percent shrinkage in bodily fluids can cause a 25-30 percent loss of energy in the average person, and a 15 percent decrease in water can cause death.  It's not just the water we drink that is significant, but also water that we are visible to over bathing, cooking, and leisure events as well like swimming or fishing.  These contacts can disturb our health. When the streams are contaminated, fish and wildlife that depend on on those water systems are also affected.  Across the globe, access to clean water has grown into a major health problem.

In 2003, in discussion with First Nations, INAC and Health Canada established the First Nations Water Management Strategy (FNWMS) to guarantee First Nations communities have access to harmless, reliable drinking water and operational waste water amenities.  The Government of Candada is devoting $600 million over five years to advance water and water waste water services on reserves.  Funding will be used to offer new and advanced systems, expand management practices and upkeep the training and certification of workers.

Resources:
Arnoldsen, K.  Huntingdon Health and Wellness Association.  The Importance of Healthy Water.
Retrieved from http://hhwa.org/natural-conncetion-articles/97-the-importance-of-healthy-water

Access to Clean, Reliable Water Essential To Healthy First Nations Communities.
Retrieved from http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100021600/1100100021604

Birthing Experience

I don't remember my birthing experience but my mother told me something very interesting.  Before I was born my older sister use to hit my mother in the stomach, not hard just playing around because she was only 6 years older than me and she was really cling to my mother.  I have a little knot on top of my head and to this day my mother, sister, and cousins tease me saying I have this because my sister was hitting me on top of the head in my mothers stomach.  Nothing came about from it because I came out perfectly normal.  My mother explained to me how she used to read to me while in her stomach and play educational songs that dealt with counting and different stories.  I believe this is why I love education so much and have always loved to read.  I believe it is very important to go about birth in a positive manner and to take care of the body.  A child can be affected by things that go on around before they even come out.  If we listen to the doctors and take every step to perfection, I honestly believe a child's development will be a success.

In China for the last 25 years they have sought to curb the growth of its vast population by restricting many couples to having just one child.  More women are taking fertility medicine to help them become pregnant (Gu Ling, director of Maternal and Child Hygiene) reported.  Seems to me it doesn't matter how many we have in the U.S. compared to China.  Having one child has been promoted as ideal and the limit has been strongly enforced in urban areas, the actual implementation varies from location to location.  In most rural areas, families are allowed to have two children, if the first child is female, or disabled.

Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4708432.stm