Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
24 Pct Indian Kids Go Without Food Every Day
24 percent Indian
kids go without food every day, reveals ‘Save the Children’ study. The
study was conducted in India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Peru and
sampled over 1,000 adults in rural and urban areas. It revealed that
nearly 30 percent of Indian families have been forced to cut back on
food due to rising food prices. Save the Children is an international
NGO working for children's rights in 120 countries.
Although India has a fast emerging economy, the fact is that many people are yet to experience the economic benefits. It was noted that in India 24 percent reported that their children go without food for an entire day. The report also highlighted that the family size is critical in driving child hunger in India.
Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children International CEO, told IANS "It is shocking that parents are telling that they cannot buy food for their children because of high prices. This is destructive for the child's development as malnutrition is fatal and contributes to child mortality."
She added that "The reason we chose these countries was because the five nations cover more than half of the world's malnourished children. India is a growing economy and this survey tells the urgent need to set goals and measure progress for achieving the millennium development goals (MDG)."
The key findings from
the report revealed that more than one in four in India and Peru say
that their children complain of insufficient food to eat. Around a
quarter in India say that their children ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ go
without food for a whole day. And those with three or more school-age
children in India, Peru, and Nigeria are most likely to report that
their children go hungry for whole days at a time.
The report also suggests that those in India are least likely to have reduced the food they buy but noted that 27 percent of people in India report that they can never afford to buy nutritious food such as meat, milk or vegetables.
17 percent respondents in India said they have allowed their children to miss school in order to work and help pay for the family’s food. This was more likely noted to prevail in parents who were less educated. The foods that the poorest eat in times of hardship in India were recorded to be pulses, chapatti, vegetables, rice, etc which are generally of low quality.
About 66 percent respondents in India said that rising food prices were a pressing concern in 2011. The report also suggests that in India and Nigeria, parents struggle to feed their children. It seems like a large section of the population is unaffected by the economic progress of these countries. 51 percent surveyed in India strongly agreed that rising price of food has become the most pressing concern.
Dr.
Rajiv Tandon, Senior Advisor, Save the Children, India said “17 percent
food rate rise in one year is what has probably made 20 percent more
families unable to afford a nutritious diet.”Another report from ‘Save the Children’ revealed that 40 percent children in India are stunted and 80 percent of stunted children are recorded to live in just 20 countries. One in four of the world children are stunted, which means their body and brain has failed to develop properly because of malnutrition. It is also noted that the global progress on stunting has been extremely slow with the proportion of stunted children falling only from 40 to 27 percent from 1990 to 2010.
The report also suggested that in the poorest countries, the poorest children are twice more likely to be chronically malnourished than their richest counterparts. Also, 450 million children will be affected by stunting in the next 15 years if the current trends continue. It was seen that adults who were malnourished as children earn at least 20 percent less on average than those who weren’t.
Source:- Silicon India
Thursday, January 26, 2012
62nd Republic Day
Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the p lough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. – Swami Viveka Nand
Youth Club Wishes You Happy Republic Day.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Laws Of Life By Swami Viveka Nand
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| Swami Viveka Nand |
1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish
is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as
you breathe to live.
2. It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which
makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts
make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in
the proper light.
3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that there is meaning
behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If
you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light.
Throw the burden on yourselves!
4. It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ;
feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the
strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can
reach God.
5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realized God sitting in the
temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human
being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that
binds vanishes, and I am free.
6. Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a
helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and
let them go their own way.
7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of
some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got
rid of, the better.
8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle
to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the
ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can
teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own
soul.
10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.
Have faith in yourselves!
11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible
for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is
the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours.
It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now this knowledge
is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What
we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers'
or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover
off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot
be sacrificed for anything.
15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and
not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Source :- About.com
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Welcome 2012
Dear Members and Stake Holders,
Thanks for your support in 2011 and hope we will receive more active participation of yours in Coming days.
Achievements of 2011:-
1. Rally in Pune Fight Against Corruption
2. Education Material Distribution Camp in Bihar Lakhisarai Distt.
3. Raised voice against social issues (Child Labor, Human Rights)
4. Seminar on RTI and its impact.
5. Green Mission (Plantation)
Regards
Youth Club
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