Childhood Poverty Research - China

CHIP - Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre
http://www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php

China is the World’s most populous country.  Total population in 2001 was 1.27 billion. Of this total, 4.2 million consist of children who live in complete poverty.

Suggested recommendations to reduce childhood poverty include:

·         Increase parent’s ability to provide a better standard of living by, providing retraining opportunities, business development support, and increasing minimum wage.

·         Provide high quality education for all children

·         Health related needs of all children are meet

·         Improve access that migrant families have to government and community services.

According to Grow up Free from Poverty Coalition - A child dies every three seconds from a cause that is completely preventable: dehydration, hunger, disease, violence. That is more than 10 million a year.

Poverty does not single anyone out. It affects everyone without bias.  With the help of continued research and partnership and outreach of organizations such as Save the Children hopefully we can understand the causes of poverty and come up with solutions or strategies to see improvements and one day see an end.