Every month, I publish an answer to a reader’s question. Here’s a transcript of my answer to the reader’s question about important philanthropic causes.
Hey Lisanne, what’s a philanthropic cause that’s been under the radar for too long?
One of the roadblocks that hold children back from a future that is healthy, safe, or fulfilled, is malaria. Particularly children and pregnant women are vulnerable to this disease. Another obstacle is diarrhea. Every year, 500.000 children under 5 years old, die because of an infectional disease due to a lack of a proper toilet. No matter the cause, it’s almost always children, who are prone to these circumstances and don’t have the agency to make their own decisions.
What strikes me about those stories is how preventable the situations are. It’s incomprehensible to me, and I think to many of us that grew up the way I did, to wake up in the morning and not know what you are going to eat, where you are going to sleep, or where you are going to do your ‘need’ due to a lack of a proper toilet.
Yet we are not treating these obstacles as an emergency. There are quite a few obstacles in the world that cause children to grow up with a lack of safety, health and fulfillment.
I owe a lot to my teachers, my family and those caregivers that were present in my childhood.
How about you? What kind of causes do you care about? Let me know in the comments.
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