{"id":435659,"date":"2010-03-16T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11565"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:34:49","slug":"knutsford-high-students-blogging-on-the-plight-of-women-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435659","title":{"rendered":"Knutsford High students blogging on the plight of women in developing countries."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\"Sandhya<\/p>\n
Sandhya outside Knutsford High School<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span>Sandhya Venkateswaran<\/a>, a W8 member and representative of the Indian coalition \u2018Don\u2019t Break Your Promises\u2019 <\/a>gave a lunchtime talk yesterday at Knutsford High School about health and education rights in India. Students at Knutsford High were encouraged, during the event, to write their posts for the Oxfam North West blog. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

Read up their posts and what they thought of Sandhya’s talk on women’s access to health and education and their doubts and opinions about aid for development. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Sat in the schools media centre, of all places, I found myself moved and appalled about the global situation concerning women\u2019s rights, especially in education and childbirth.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Students<\/a><\/p>\n
Students at Knutsford High School<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span>Most people don\u2019t realise that childbirth is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening experience, during the 30-minute talk, 30 or more women will have died from childbirth or pregnancy. Here in the UK we take medical care for granted and most people don\u2019t realise how lucky we are to have the NHS. Hoping to become a midwife or a paediatric nurse myself, going overseas to less economically developed countries is certainly something I will be looking into. Sam Booth and Lauren Brown <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Does lending money to countries to help them develop actually help them? <\/span>Will they not become dependant on aid provided by more developed countries, such as ours, and thus leaving the country<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Students<\/p>\n
Students writing their blogs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

helpless to maintain that level of infrastructure. In Africa economic aid will often find itself in the hands of drug runners and militant groups and never make it down to the regular citizen. Corrupt governments take the money for themselves and Africa is riddled with them.\u00a0<\/span>Dan Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t\"Jack<\/p>\n
Jack Street at Knutsford High School<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I was shocked to find out that almost one child every minute dies from curable diseases like pneumonia. That almost 30 women every half hour, the same length as the speech, could have passed away through childbirth, and that in some schools there are no female toilets. Jack Street<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Do you agree with the students’ perspectives? What do you think? <\/span><\/p>\n

Please leave here your comments! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandhya outside Knutsford High School Sandhya Venkateswaran, a W8 member and representative of the Indian coalition \u2018Don\u2019t Break Your Promises\u2019 gave a lunchtime talk yesterday at Knutsford High School about health and education rights in India. Students at Knutsford High were encouraged, during the event, to write their posts for the Oxfam North West blog. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}