The dark days must be made to pass. The Philippines infant mortality is a horrid 17.5 Infant deaths per 1,000 live births.
In Canada that number is 4 (four), in the USA that number is 5 (five).
Philippines deaths under Age 5 are 24.8 deaths per 1,000 live births.
In Canada that number is 5, in the USA that number is 6. (See all countries.)
Half the kids under five are stunted according to UNICEF. One third of all children are stunted.
Women in the Philippines seek solutions.
A private global civil society women’s rights group has formulated a plan for addressing child stunting and massive poverty in the Philippines. The women are looking to raise millions of dollars in the Americas and in Europe to augment the present budget.
RINJ Women is a private, international association of humanitarians including nurses, midwives, medics, EMS workers, doctors, lawyers and investigators that comprises a global Civil Society Organization (NGO).
“Our experts studying child trafficking in the Philippines were stumped every time they came to the realization that parents among a group of 35 million impoverished people living in the Philippines were selling a couple of their children in order to feed the siblings at home,” explains Geraldine Frisque, spokesperson for RINJ Women.
Dignified homes, proper nourishment, and a meaningful vocation.
“We need to tackle the underlying problems. Dr. Nassima al Amouri, a RINJ Women medical director was saying. Arresting mothers and throwing them in massive, overcrowded prisons is not the answer. Tens of millions of people in the Philippines need dignified homes, proper nourishment, and a meaningful vocation,” Ms. Frisque continued.
Women and children n the Philippines are put at risk by Americans building massive war bases and nachinery for war in the Philippines to fight a war with China. Photo credit: Melissa Hemingway Art / Cropping / Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Opportunity lies in the timing of Philippines development and rise from poverty and stunted children.
Dynasties running the Philippines do well for themselves, living off the population exploited as cheap labour the way Americans exploited slavery to economic advantage. Today two of the most notorious dynasties rule the Philippines.
“Socioeconomic contexts shape the opportunities for predatory behavior among Philippines politicians and their relationships with economic elites. Using novel survey data on business-government linkages as well as an extensive dataset on local government leadership in the Philippines spanning 2004 to 2016, Science Direct found that political dynasties exacerbate poverty in the resource-rich non-Luzon provinces but not in Luzon where there is a more competitive business environment.” Citing Political dynasties, business, and poverty in the Philippines – ScienceDirect
Opportunities like this one must not be missed. People must make a difference if government will not.
Filipinos can learn afresh the way ahead in a new environment-friendly, climate-friendly human existence, without the mistakes and misunderstandings of the past.
“The day of great opportunity is here in the Philippines because at a time when things have got so bad that something must be done, Filipinos will be learning in the 21st century environment and knowledge base putting the country ahead of many others around the world. We need to educate at least 35 million people in the era of conservation, energy efficiency and environmental cleanliness.
Desalination facilities are needed in the Philippines for fresh, clean, water. Transportation infrastructure is needed to bring product to market, and that development was underway with China’s help until America took control of the country’s government at the start of 2023 to try and contain China’s earned economic growth and fight a war.
Photo credit: Ella Olsson from Stockholm, Sweden – Plant-Based Dishes, Raw Food photo is cropped. Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Women NGO’s strategy for a fast sustainable turnaround.
- Feed the people;
- get families strong, healthy and back on their feet;
- recruit adults and teens for vocational training especially in the areas of farming, light industry, transportation, solar and nuclear energy workers;
- teach vegetable gardening;
- teach farming in the context of the larger community’s modern agricultural needs; and
- position communities to realize the promise of plant-based human diet moving away from raising animals fed with massive quantities of human food and feeding the elite with the few animals fed with massive numbers of humans’ foodstuffs.
China’s deprivation of Filipino children of small fish is a major crime against humanity.
“Maybe the worst crime against humanity I have seen yet is the deliberate deprivation of tens of thousands if not millions of simple folks by choking off the fisherfolk in the Philippines from their traditional fisheries by the Chinese paramilitary,” she said.
So why is that so bad?
The impact is insidious. Half the kids five and under in the Philippines are stunted.
In the same five year period the Chinese have been vigorously assaulting or just blocking simple fisherfolk vigorously. Small fish have been missing from the food diversity. Protein food is missing. That is a disaster over time. Put a gun to someone’s head and pull the trigger is obvious murder. This is insidious murder. Genocide in a stretch.
Why is that important to the children? Nutritional protein.
What about it? Well, the diet of rural provinces is local grown vegetables. Wonderful. Where does the protein come from? Small fish.
“I am blaming corrupt and greedy government officials with impunity and a prevailing class discrimination mindset as well as the Chinese stifling of the flow of balanced nutrition thus creating such a massive number of small children whose growth is stunted,” said the Executive Director of the RINJ.org.
“Nutrition and health care are going to hit bottom in the Philippines as the government enjoys and spends American bucks and lets the Americans occupy the country for a war with China,” added Ms. Alsop. “War kills women and children more than the men who create and fight wars.”
While the forecast growth for the Philippines is around 6.25%, as of 12 May, inflation is far out of control and will eat that 6.25% and then some. People are going hungry in the millions.
If North America really wanted to help the Philippines, it would deal with some dire problems like the EU once tried to do before it became a hegemon competitor to the USA and China.
Philippines Infant Mortality: 17.5 Infant Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births
In Canada that number is 4, in the USA that number is 5. (all countries)
Philippines Deaths Under Age 5: 24.8 deaths per 1,000 Live Births
In Canada that number is 5, in the USA that number is 6. (all countries)
“The point is that the population of the Philippines lives within a shallow balance of subsistence. I am not talking about the wealthy in Davao, Cebu and Manila-region where crime is a way of life, mining the working population in the provinces, but the vast island agriculture regions where one finds the majority of the 113,739,973-population living (estimate as of Friday, 12 May 2023),” explained Ms. Alsop.
A stunted child has a low height for their age due to malnutrition and perhaps repeated infections and illness. The World Health Organization categorizes kids who are stunted as those whose height is lower than regional average for their age, and at least two standard deviations below the WHO’s Child Growth Standards Median.
- Poor nutrition due to lack of diverse foods
- Poor sanitation and little or no access to clean drinking water.
- Lack of proper healthcare for children and their moms.
A parade of American leaders have been in Malacañang trying to charm the new leadership made up of the son of the worst dictator ever to plunder a country using the money gained in that thievery to get elected, and Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter as vice-president.