Promoting Overall Health

EME2040 was invited to attend a discussion given at the Miami Dade College North campus on the importance of promoting global education. Professor McNair and Dr. Kenny broke down the urgent necessities on teaching literacy through out the world especially to woman and the high number of orphans left by AIDS.

There have been many attempts by different organizations to reduce illiteracy; UNESCO began a Global Education Initiative in 1990 where 155 countries gathered to conclude of the urgency it exists to teach how to read and write to all of the world’s citizens. Unfortunately, due to differences in cultures, women are less educated than man. They do not even get the chance to attend early education. If women had the chance to be educated even if its only learning how to read and write, they would increase there chances of survival and independency even if there duties have already been arranged by their culture; because what happens when their husband leaves them or dies? What happens to their children whose only resource is their mother’s knowledge? This is high stake matter for women to be educated is best describe by one of the professor’s McNair’s quotes, “If you educate the womb, you educate the Nation.”

AIDS was declared to be an epidemic in 1984 after the first spread in Africa, which became an epidemic in Zaire, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya. The AIDS virus is believed to have started from African primates and monkeys; I personally believe that it was a man made virus to be spread out through out the world as per Kissinger’s number 200 policy for the sole purpose of reducing the world’s population just like the H1N1 virus is.

If we all become aware of the grand necessity needed to promote literacy and act upon the matter by volunteering, becoming a tutor or an activist; united we can eliminate the problem but usually we are lazy and if this matter is not affecting us personally, we tend to disregard it completely. If we promote literacy we can also expand the education on how to protect from any virus through pamphlets, billboards, etc.. At the same time we must be fully conscious of our surroundings and understand that we are part of a chain, therefore anything that happens to any distant neighbor eventually will come back to affect us.