A Darfur Game?
Well, that’s one way to spread awareness…
Facts about Rwanda
So, I’ve been doing a lot of research on street kid life in Rwanda lately for the documentary. Click the link above… but I’ll post below what I found interesting from the site:
- Rwanda’s population is young. Out of the 8 million people living in Rwanda, more than half are under 18years old.
- Rwanda has one of the world’s worst child mortality rates – one in five Rwandan children die before their fifth birthday. Malaria is the leading cause of infant and child mortality (29 per cent).
- 42 per cent of Rwandan children under five years old are malnourished.
- More than 400,000 children are out of school.
- Rwanda has one of the world’s largest proportions of households that are headed by children (i.e. children raising children) with an estimated 101,000 children heading up some 42,000 households.
- Between 9 and 13.4 per cent of 15 to 24-year-old females, and between 3.9 and 5.9 per cent of 15 to 24-year-old boys are HIV-positive.
- By 2001, an estimated 264,000 children had lost one or both parents to AIDS – representing 43 per cent of all orphans.
- 613,000 Rwandan children between the ages of 0 to 14 years old are orphans.
- 7,000 street children
- 3,500 children living in orphanages
- 1,000 children living in conflict with the law
- 60,000 children living with disabilities
- 120,000 working children
What has your legislators done for Darfur?
This site rates your represenatatives by how much they have done for Darfur.
Our representative has done almost nothing and has a bad rating, so we are going to send (or bombard him with) letters and petitions. :)
Got Kicks?
A Student Film About Darfur.
