Nno, Welcome, Ola,

I visited Nigeria in 2006 and was bitten by a bug called High Infant Mortality Rate. I read about the issue in a local news paper in Abuja. This information was buttressed while on holidays in my father's village (Nnewi); an elderly woman informed my cousin and I of 2 infant deaths that Christmas week from childhood preventable illnesses. I was aghast. I sat down, dumfounded, then a flashback of I (as a child), at the end of civil war, women carrying their dying babies of kwashiorkor to my father's compound seeking relief; food, water, medicine anything to help their infants. In 2007 I returned to finish my graduate school in Public Health and my community health class provided a platform to research infant mortality rate. Hence, I wrote a paper on it, and proposed a three year strategic pyramid solution.

This blog is about being part of the solution:
(a) bringing the issue to bear
(b) envisioning seamless integrated strategies
(c) visualizing adapting innovative, sustainable solutions to mitigate variables that give rise to high infant deaths.

At issue is the continent of Africa. Some may say I gave money to Africa, yes you did but in reality you gave money for a project in Mali, or Sierra Leone or Liberia. That is 3 countries out of 50. From my research, high infant morality rate in SSA is attracting international, national and individual researchers seeking effective methods in implementing sustainable measures or solutions towards reversing the numbers. I am suggesting that more man power is needed to combat the problem at least in Nigeria.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_FS_4_EN.pdf



Sunday, November 14, 2010

Falash Mura aliyah

Hurray to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah to allow approximately 8,000 Ethiopian Jews to call Israel home in the next three years.  www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11753909 "These are the seeds of Israel- men, women and children that currently find themselves in the worst living condition,"  'Israel had a moral duty to resolve the complex humanitarian crisis,' said Netanyah.   Would this aliyah complete the immigration of the entire Falash Mura community in Ethiopia as Silvan Shalom (2007) suggested? Ethiopians would tell you "No".  I wonder the rate of infant mortality at these camps- is it high, medium or low in the past twenty years?  Nevertheless, aliyah gesture from Prime Minister Netanyah is a wonderful one.  Hence, to end the persistent hunger of infants and their families homelessness in these camps.
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