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Here are some of the facts...
Hello Everyone,
After reading this posting and hearing other individuals talking about this issue; I would like to share some of the facts. {My disclaimer: these facts are based on learning outcomes from grad school}. Hope this disclaimer gets me around the website rules.
Facts - what Raina said MAY be true. However, no one actually knows how many young girls or females are not being properly educated or provided for. Here is why, the reporting is NEVER accurate. Let's take a member state such as Jordan. Jordan will report to the UN how many people are in the state, how many jobs are available, how many citizens, expats, college students...are living there. Now what happens is...
* if there are (just estimating) 5 millions people in Jordan
* available jobs for 4.1 million (regardless of full-time or part time)
* and there are an estimate 900,000 people who are unable to have access to education, training, adaquate housing or food. Then Jordan can request funding for other member states to help subside this gap. However, before funding is provided Jordan must create a strategic plan on how they plan to provide these 900,000 citizen with education, training, housing (making them self-sufficient). Here is the problem, 1.) Thoses member states who commit funding sometimes doesn't pay the full amount they commit and 2.) the money that gets paid rarely, makes it to those who should benefit. {This is not to say, this is happening in Jordan, this is just an example}. Therefore, those people who should benefit usually don't get the help they need.
There are five major financial contributors: China, US, UK, Germany, and France...AKA "the big five". So when the big five doesn't give the full amount they get food from some humantarian support. The problem with getting humantarian support is those who support lesser financial stable states also support the food bank.
I hope I didn't bore you by now...the major problem is there is no accountabilty with giving funding...! It is something that makes me bang my head every time I hear there are 5 million in this member state (country) hungry or uneducated and 10 million here hungry or uneducated...WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY! That is what Rania should have talked about...When they have these conferences they talk about blah...blah..blah..They don't address the real issues. I was given two tickets (due to my profession) to attend this meeting, however I don't want to hear the problem I want the solution! My two interns went and they said the food was great, nice to see the people and that's it...blah..blah.. I hope I did not bore anyone, but the facts are so important.
Kind regards,
Hello Everyone,
After reading this posting and hearing other individuals talking about this issue; I would like to share some of the facts. {My disclaimer: these facts are based on learning outcomes from grad school}. Hope this disclaimer gets me around the website rules.
Facts - what Raina said MAY be true. However, no one actually knows how many young girls or females are not being properly educated or provided for. Here is why, the reporting is NEVER accurate. Let's take a member state such as Jordan. Jordan will report to the UN how many people are in the state, how many jobs are available, how many citizens, expats, college students...are living there. Now what happens is...
* if there are (just estimating) 5 millions people in Jordan
* available jobs for 4.1 million (regardless of full-time or part time)
* and there are an estimate 900,000 people who are unable to have access to education, training, adaquate housing or food. Then Jordan can request funding for other member states to help subside this gap. However, before funding is provided Jordan must create a strategic plan on how they plan to provide these 900,000 citizen with education, training, housing (making them self-sufficient). Here is the problem, 1.) Thoses member states who commit funding sometimes doesn't pay the full amount they commit and 2.) the money that gets paid rarely, makes it to those who should benefit. {This is not to say, this is happening in Jordan, this is just an example}. Therefore, those people who should benefit usually don't get the help they need.
There are five major financial contributors: China, US, UK, Germany, and France...AKA "the big five". So when the big five doesn't give the full amount they get food from some humantarian support. The problem with getting humantarian support is those who support lesser financial stable states also support the food bank.
I hope I didn't bore you by now...the major problem is there is no accountabilty with giving funding...! It is something that makes me bang my head every time I hear there are 5 million in this member state (country) hungry or uneducated and 10 million here hungry or uneducated...WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY! That is what Rania should have talked about...When they have these conferences they talk about blah...blah..blah..They don't address the real issues. I was given two tickets (due to my profession) to attend this meeting, however I don't want to hear the problem I want the solution! My two interns went and they said the food was great, nice to see the people and that's it...blah..blah.. I hope I did not bore anyone, but the facts are so important.
Kind regards,
Queen Rania's speech and her wonderful conversation with Katie Couric can be seen here:
Part 11 "The Lives Of Girls" on Women in the World - live streaming video powered by Livestream
Queen Rania: Educating Girls a Life-or-Death Issue
"I really do think this is a do or die year and I don't mean that metaphorically—education really can mean life or death," Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan told NBC's Katie Couric this afternoon at the Women in the World summit. Queen Rania, a long-time advocate for girls' education, made an impassioned plea for a sense of urgency about educating the developing world's 600 million girls instead of condemning them to lives of poverty and disease. Highlights of the Women in the World Summit - Page 1 - The Daily Beast
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