Antonio 5A - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

Renewable sources of energy are able to ensure a more limited environmental impact compared to that produced by fossil fuels. The main advantages of renewable sources consist in the fact that they are inexhaustible, who renew their availability in a short time, and that their use produces an environmental pollution entirely negligible.
Wind energy is the energy possessed by the wind, that only a few decades is used to produce electricity. To harness the energy of the wind turbines are used. The principle is the same as the old windmills ie the wind that pushes the blades, in this case, the movement of rotation of the blades is transmitted to a generator that produces electricity.
The wind turbines are different in shape and size, the type most widely used is the average, about 50 meters high with 2 or 3 blades 20 meters long and capable of providing a power supply daily to 500/600 kW (equivalent to the daily electricity demand 500 families).
More wind turbines together form the wind farm, "wind farms", real power in which the turbines are located at a distance apart equal to 5/10 times the diameter of the blades, so in case of wind turbines it is an average installed every 200 meters

Antonio 5A - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Barbara, Francesca e Jessica - IPIA "G.Marconi"

Year 2000. 189 Heads of State and Government sign at the bottom of the Millennium Development Goals. After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, it is the most important global agreement based on mutual commitment: doing what is necessary to build a more prosperous, fair and safe world.
Ensuring environmental sustainability is the seventh of the eight goals proposed.
This goal is composed by the following points:

• Integrating the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources; 
• Reducing biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in its rate; 
• Halving, within 2015, the percentage of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation; 
• Achieving, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million people living in shanty towns.
Every day a forest twice time bigger than Paris disappears.
One billion and 600 million people lack in having basic hygienic services. 
The development of renewable energy grew tenfold in the last decades and China wants to beat the U.S. in number of solar panels installed.
Most countries have undertaken to introduce the principles of sustainable development into country policies and national strategies. They also established the implementation of important international agreements.
Millennium Development Goal 7 foresees a reversal in the loss of environmental resources, including forests, biological diversity and the layer of ozone on the Earth, guaranteed access to water supply, adequate sewage systems and decent and sustainable housing plan for poor people in the world. Although the progress on certain of these areas is encouraging, the overall picture is bleak.
The AIESEC project aims to a dialogue within countries by raising awareness in schools and other environments, deepening the concept of sustainable development, including environmental issues that is an essential feature and support the educational work among the younger generations so that they may contribute to a future social equity, to ensure everyone on the earth to enjoy natural resources now and in the future and contributing to the development of relations between different realities, the promotion of cultural exchanges and the promotion of Intercultural communication tools.

Barbara, Francesca e Jessica - IPIA "G.Marconi"

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Elena Vasileva - Tutor from "AIESEC"

Elena Vasileva - Tutor from" AIESEC"

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Agostino and Giuliana - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

The number of children under the age five who die annually has plummeted from 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have said in a new report.

The two United Nations agencies estimate in the report that the drop means about 12,000 more children's lives are being saved each day.

They say there are many reasons for the improved under-five mortality rate, including better access to health care and preventive measures such as immunisation, clean water and better nutrition.

Even so, improvements in child mortality rates will not be enough to meet the UN goal set in 2000 of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015, and the groups say more money is needed.

Anthony Lake, the UNICEF executive director, says "focusing greater investment on the most disadvantaged communities will help us save more children's lives, more quickly and more cost   effectively.

"The news that the rate of child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa is declining twice as fast as it was a decade ago shows that we can make progress even in the poorest places," said Lake. "But we cannot for a moment forget the chilling fact of around 21,000 children are dying everyday from preventable causes."

Between 1990 and 2010, the annual number of deaths in children under five years of age fell to 57 per 1,000 births in 2010, from 88 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990.

Sierra Leone ranked among the top five countries seeing improvements in child mortality in the past decade, along with Niger, Malawi, Liberia and Timor-Leste.

About half of all under-five deaths in the world took place in just five countries in 2010; India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and China.

Babies are particularly vulnerable. According to the report, more than 40 per cent of deaths in children under the age of five occur within the first month of life and more than 70 per cent occur in the first year of life.

Deaths among children under the age of five increasingly are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, with 82 per cent of child deaths occurring in these regions in 2010, compared with 69 percent in 1990.

In sub-Saharan Africa, one in eight children die before reaching age of five. That compares with one in 143 children dying before age five in developed countries.

Agostino and Giuliana - IPIA G.Marconi

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Teresa - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

In fact the world over 26% of children are underweight and in a state of malnutrition every year two million infants under 5 years die from diarrhea.

Not everyone knows that those who suffer from this malaise eliminates, by the liquefaction of stools, a large amount of water that is vital for humans.

If the Western world this disease is a common ailment caused by cooling or by indigestion, and is exceeded in a few days in Africa, where water supply is dramatic and the scourge of rampant malnutrition, diarrhea can be lethal to a child.

Figures released by Aldo Morrone of 'National Institute for the promotion of health of migrant populations (NIHMP) are dramatic, while Stephen Taravella, deputy chairman of UNICEF Italy, has released data on child mortality in Africa caused by such mali.

The affluent society news filters such as fact of the past, but unfortunately we speak of 2010 AD!

Teresa - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Luigi - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

If we steal the products of their land and fomentiamo civil wars we should not then complain of migratory flows. Anyway is fine, the sentence on cavarselo alone shows how much further do you not give a damn no dialogue!

By the way, who spoke BALE OF FAME .... Also the photo below is a lie, right?

Luigi - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Gianluca - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

"The number of undernourished people first to soaring prices of 2007-2008 amounted to 850 million. Only in 2007 this number increased by 75 million to a total of 925 million. "He said the director general of FAO, Jacques Diouf (pictured) during a Senate hearing on September 17, the presence of joint commissions of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture of both Houses of Parliament. Between 2005 and 2007 he made ??"the bigger jump": the biggest leap forward in the number of people suffering from hunger in the world.

The World Bank has launched an alarm and warns that rising food prices, doubled or even tripled in the last three years, threatens to become poorer still 100 million people living in low income countries and to raise from 3 percent to 5 percent, the poverty rate of world population. Marcelo has discussed jugal, managing director for Latin America and the Caribbean countries of the World Bank.

Gianluca - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Genny - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

 New Delhi: More and more children are now living to see their fifth birthday as the child mortality rates have dropped by a third since 1990, the latest under-five mortality estimates released by Unicef said on Friday.

However, the tragedy of preventable child deaths continues as 22,000 children below five still die each day in a few countries and half of the deaths are in just five - India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and China. As many as 70 per cent of these deaths occur in the first year of the child's life.

Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2010, issued by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) and published in a special edition of British medical journal, The Lancet, revealed that from 89 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, the rate has dropped to 60 in 2009.

Genny - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Graziano - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

In fact, Bangladesh has become quite a success in lowering its child mortality rate that it is now among the few nations that are poised to reduce this rate by two-thirds, which is the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG). And that, say experts, is due in part to the government’s efforts to reach districts so remote that they were often overlooked or forgotten altogether when it came to providing health care.
Graziano - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Gaetano - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

WHAT CAN WE DO?

Hopefully! a conscious use of resources. Water and energy are not endless goods. 800 million people worldwide do not know what a sink and did not know drinking water!

Awareness, awareness, awareness! Last but not least must be our daily awareness action. Let's talk with our friends, send mail to the institutions, we try to convince as many people as possible: the problem of hunger in the     world must come to the center of the social and political.
Gaetano - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

                                
                        

  



 John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

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Emanuele 4c - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

Impressive figures for a modern world, rich and globalized world every three seconds a child under 5 years of life lost. Most of them died for reasons easily predictable: neonatal complications (37%), pneumonia (19%), diarrhea (17%), malaria (8%), measles (4%). The data covers 68 countries in the developing world where the country with the worst infant mortality rate is Sierra Leone, with 262 child deaths per 1000 births, followed by Afghanistan, with 257 in 1000. In these countries, the main causes of infant mortality are exacerbated by conditions of malnutrition, endemic poverty, poor sanitation, lack of potable water, lack of access to education for mothers and limited use of contraception.
Emanuele 4c - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Renato - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

7.6 million children under five died in 2010. Almost 90% of all child deaths are attributable to just six conditions: neonatal causes, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS. During 1960-1990, child mortality in developing regions was halved to one child in 10 dying before age five. The aim is to further cut child mortality by two thirds by 2015 from the 1990 level.

Reaching the MDG on reducing child mortality will require universal coverage with key effective, affordable interventions: care for newborns and their mothers; infant and young child feeding; vaccines; prevention and case management of pneumonia, diarrhoea and sepsis; malaria control; and prevention and care of HIV/AIDS. In countries with high mortality, these interventions could reduce the number of deaths by more than half.

WHO strategies

To deliver these interventions, WHO promotes four main strategies:

·appropriate home care and timely treatment of complications for newborns;

·integrated management of childhood illness for all children under five years old;

·expanded programme on immunization;

·infant and young child feeding.

These child health strategies are complemented by interventions for maternal health, in particular, skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth. 

Renato - I.P.I.A "G.Marconi"

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Domenico - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

 NAIROBI, Kenya — Ten African countries have halved their poverty rates over the last two decades, but child mortality rates have increased in six sub-Saharan nations, a report on the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals released Tuesday found.

The countries that halved their poverty rates since 1990 include relatively populous countries such as Ethiopia and Egypt and post-conflict countries such as Angola, the report said. However, in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty has risen.

Domenico - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Antonio and Emanuele - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

Thanks to scaled up support for simple, relatively inexpensive solutions like anti-malaria mosquito nets, measles vaccinations and vitamin supplements, the number of children dying before their fifth birthdays each year has been cut to the lowest level ever on record, 8.8 million, according to a report released today by Unicef. “This enormous global progress – 10,000 fewer children dying each day than in 1990 – is something to celebrate and carry forward,” said ONE President and CEO David Lane.

However, there are still 8.8 million under-fives dying each year of treatable diseases, 40% of them in just three countries: India, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. That’s unimaginable and a lot more work needs to be done.

Of these 8.8 million, 1.5 million children per year die of diarrhea, an easily preventable disease.

Inexpensive and effective treatments for diarrhea exist, but in developing countries only 39 percent of children with diarrhea receive the recommended treatment.

Antonio and Emanuele - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Aniello - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

I haven't been given my goal area yet, but my first choice was reducing child mortality. I think that this is a very important and grand issue that is going on all over the world. The main country that comes to mind for many people when thinking about this topic is Africa. I think that this is not only a very important topic that we need to face, but it is a topic with alot of information that can be found.

Aniello - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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Gennaro 4c and Gennaro 5c - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

I  look at them ... I look at those eyes of children, eyes shining, shining eyes of those who should be able to live long, the eyes of those who should be able to tell a life of a thousand smiles, a thousand games, a thousand satisfactions, many adventures ... I see little bodies of minutes that should be surrounded by a family, heated by a mother.

Eyes that should speak of love.

I see little mouths to feed every day that they should eat a slice of a sweeter world, but between classes and games, remains a bitterly.

You shake hands firmly, looking for you, watching you, hug you, looking in all the ways that contact that probably never had.

But this is a different reality.

Here it grows in the middle of the road.

We grow up with hunger, fear, cold, the naivete of those who do not know what is outside of this country.

Some grow in the knowledge that you were ill, the awareness of being able to die in the event of any delay in taking a medicine. There are those medicines do not even have that.

We grow up fatherless.

Gennaro 4c and Gennaro 5c - I.P.I.A"G.Marconi"

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In the classroom

Trough many activities we now know what it is all about,( for the first time ) and we have chosen as item of our research the following millenium goal “ reduce child mortality “ it’s a bit difficult to write about all the activities we have done with Elena, but it is very important to underline all the discussions about the problems in the southern part of the world that we had in the classroom.

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Our Goal !!!

Children are our future! But our future is in danger! We must do something to let them survive expecially in those countries where childhood doesn’t exsist.

This is our goal…even if we are very far, we would like to be part of the system that gives aid to them.

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