Room For Improvement Youth Development Inc. (RFIYD) is a Saskatoon youth-based organization that is dedicated to both raising awareness of the realities of youth worldwide and to providing basic healthcare and education to disadvantaged youth.
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End Polio Campaign - Eliminate 1%
Polio is a disease that most of us in the western world do not hear of anymore. Polio mainly affects children under the age of 5 years, and still persists mostly in the destitute areas of the world. Its crippling effects has been reduced to 1% as to what it used to be, but now we must make sure we completely eliminate it. In 2011, only four countries (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan) remain polio-endemic, down from more than 125 in 1988. But this critical work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is constrained by a US$535 million funding gap.
There have been great success in eliminating Polio worldwide! This November 20th, on the Universal Children's Day we ask you to join the global commitment to End Polio and demand action from your government on the last 1% of occurrences of this disease.
It is noted by the World Health Organization that, "Once polio is eradicated, the world can celebrate the delivery of a major global public good that will benefit all people equally, no matter where they live. Economic modelling has found that the eradication of polio in the next five years would save at least US$ 40-50 billion, mostly in low-income countries."
You can play a major role in this by joining the campaign! http://www.theendofpolio.com
To date, immunisation of more than 2 billion children has taken place and saved more than 5 million children from life-long paralysis or death. (The End of Polio, Nov 2011).
Join the call for world leaders to commit to polio eradication, join the End of Polio Campaign. For each petition signature, a child will be vaccinated through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Sign the petition here.
Universal Children's Day - November 20
As the Universal Children's Day is fast approaching, lets take a moment and reflect back with this quote:
"We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind." - We the Children: End Decade Review to the Secretary General (2001).
Source: http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/
In 1959, the UN General Assembly recommended that the 20th of November was to be observed as a day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the children of the world. The Assembly suggested to governments that the Day be observed on the date and in the way which each considers appropriate. The Universal Children's Day marks the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
As humans, we continuously make promises , promises that we continuously fail to keep. We recently brought in a new child to the world, the 7th billion child - celebrated its (his/her) birth with no apparent plan to take care of it as we did with the 6th billion child (the story was also featured on television the same day). This November 20th let us begin a new trend; take care of ourselves, look to each other and take care of each other, and not wait for governments/corporations to carry out what they promise. Let us take the youth into consideration and build them into the strong people to lead us into tomorrow. Let us be the bigger persons, take ownership of the way the world is today and make the small but significant steps to making it fit for all.
Come back soon for more information on RFIYD work on Nov. 20th.