The May 26 news program reported the low-income family could not afford to send their child to hospital for treatment and had never received financial or medical aid from the government or charity organizations.
Recently, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre released a report called “Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” in the Educational Leadership Journal in May 2007. It said health was one category used to measure a child’s well-being. The other five categories are material well-being, safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviors and risks and a subjective sense of well-being.
Of the six categories, material well-being, health and education are probably vital for our efforts to prepare the young generation for future leadership. Material well-being has a strong and direct impact on health and education. We can imagine what kind of leaders would be made out of children who are unhealthy and poorly educated because their family cannot afford to send them to school. Health also affects a child’s capacity to learn and achieve at school.
The following facts should be an alarm for the government and the whole nation: Indonesia‘s Central Statistics Agency notes in its 2007 report that 37.17 million people live below the poverty line, making up 17 percent of the total population.
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