United Nations Millennium- Goal 4

      The millennium goal that I chose, and think strongly about is the “Reduce Child Mortality”, the reason I think strongly about this is because I really care about children, and they interest me the most out of all of the topics.  When you open the “Goal 4: 2013 Facts Sheet” it opens with some facts about the topic and one of the topics that interested me the most was, while around 17,000 fewer children are dying each day, 6.6 million children under five died in 2012—mostly from preventable diseases. And that interested me the most because they were preventable, but they don’t have as many resources as we do to save those lives.

     What goal four is, is that is states “Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate of children under five” and to summarize what the goal is wanting, is basically making it possible for in the future increase child survival. It also talks about how the death of these children come from some of the poorest and most marginalized societies, and some of the diseases mostly come from: pneumonia, preterm birth complications, diarrhea, intrapartum-related complications and malaria. It is known that the first month, and particularly the first 24 hours, are the most dangerous in a child’s life. But, it is said that when you breast feed your newborn, they’re more likely to survive that non-breast fed children.

        The way I think this connects to our neighborhood, and our society is that maybe not to the extent of so many children dying from the disease listed above, but from not enough nutrition. I say that because, there are plenty of children who are starving, or have health issues and can’t afford the medication that they need. The outcome so far of goal four is that in Bangladesh they are breaking health care barriers by having UNICEF supported efforts, by training community health care workers. But overall it seems that the UNICEF has tried to make great efforts to reach the goal in many communities.