Blog #2: Zimbabwe Forsakes the Vulnerable

Summary:
 My article gives an overview of the lack of funds that are being distributed to the vulnerable people of Zimbabwe. Non-governmental Organizations have failed to keep the same amount of funding to help these people, thus leaving it all up to the government to provide for these heavily impoverished people. Food Shortages, and increase in HIV and aids and little economic assistance have all been factors resulting in this high realm of poverty. An estimated 700 firms have closed their shops in the the past years, leaving many people with no jobs to help them sustain life. Financial assistance that was once given to people with disabilities and national heroes has decreased. The Zimbabwe constitutions states that their people are entitled to the basic rights of having food, basic education, health and shelter, which will help them minimally sustain life. Lack of government prioritization and budgeting leaves the people of Zimbabwe without these basic rights. Lack of distribution of funds leads orphanages to have to downsize, leaving more children homeless. Less than 1/3 of the senior citizens are receiving health assistance, only more than 3/4 of the 1.8 million people who need food assistance will face starvation, and only less than 1/2 of the children who need assistance with school fees will receive help. A state also needed a sum of $20-million to help 60,000 relocate as a result of flooding, and this money probably wasn't distributed to them, leaving those people in dire need to shelter, food and clothes.

Analysis:
This article sheds light on how dependable the people of Zimbabwe are on their lacking government. It reveals how unorganized and how unconcerned their government is with their citizens. They totally disregard the constitution that gives their citizens the rights to have the necessary things to sustain life, because they don't distribute these things properly to their people. It is as if their government is only concerned about the well-being of themselves, and not that of their dying people. All power is in the hands of those who have money and those who have the appropriate items to help those who are in need. It will soon be no people for the government to help because eventually they are all going to perish, waiting on help from those who are supposed to have their best interest at heart. These people have no one that genuinely cares about their lives and if the government did, they would find a way to allocate the appropriate funds to help their people. They aren't asking to have millions, they are only asking for just enough to get them by for another day, so the problem can somehow be solved. If their people can't depend on the government or the environmental functions of the earth to contribute the their health and well-being, then who are they to turn to?

http://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-14-00-zimbabwe-forsakes-the-vulnerable