Week of May 1-5

Monday: go over Africa map, presentations

News

Trump’s 100 days was on Saturday

  • Had 78 executive orders

  • Called 63 foreign leaders

  • A lot of rich white men in the cabinet

    • Has highered 6 non white male cabinet members

  • Stock market has risen

  • Immigration arrests rise-criminal and noncriminal

  • Fall of illegal border crossings

  • More air strikes

Mental Illness

  • Suicide

    • Mood changes

    • Anger

    • Talk of self harm

    • Withdraw

  • 400 people committed suicide in 2013 in Iowa

  • Suicide is the 9th leading cause of death in Iowa

Lack of Health care in sub saharan Africa

  • 6x less medical workers than developed countries

  • Rely on african healers

    • 45,000 healers and only 1,400 medical doctors

Tuesday: presentations

Lack of Proper Health care in Africa

  • Diseases

    • 1/10 have HIV or AIDS

    • 68% of people with HIV live in sub saharan africa

    • Aids takes 1 million lives

    • Malaria kills 1 african child every 30 seconds-leading cause of death in kids under 5

    • Bilharzia

    • Lassa fever

    • Malnutrition

  • More than 40% of people with HIV are women

  • Huge shortage of nurses and midwives

  • ⅔ of women have to access to health staff after childbirth

  • 9 death every minute between maternal and child deaths-nearly 13,000 a day

  • 1.2 million babies die before one month

  • 3.2 million die before the age of 5

  • 880,000 stillbirths

  • First 28 days are the most dangerous

  • Goals

    • Eradicate extreme poverty/hunger

    • Gender equality

    • Education

    • Reduce child mortality

    • Improve maternal health

    • Combat HIV/ AIDS

    • Environmental sustainability

Wednesday: group quiz, presentations

Extreme Poverty

  • The state of being extremely poor

  • Living on $1.90 a day

  • 3+ billion people live under $2.50 a day

  • 1.3 billion live under $1.90

  • Poverty rates have dropped

  • 1.5 million households live with almost no money in America

  • Extreme poverty exists in-

    • Asia

    • India

    • South America

    • Mexico

    • Africa

  • Organizations

    • Local food pantries

    • Childrens hunger alliance

    • Oxfam America

    • Hunger Project

    • Society of St. Andrew

  • 18.5 million abandoned houses-3.5 million people

  • 1 billion people live in poverty

  • 80% of population live under $10 a day

  • ½ the population live on $2.50 a day

Thursday: go over Africa, presentations

Better energy alternatives

  • Solar

  • Wind

  • Geothermal

  • Hydroelectric

  • Ocean

  • Coal generates 44% but only employs .12%

  • Solar energy

    • A sustainable energy source

    • Saves money

    • No worries about dangerous and expensive powerlines

  • Geothermal Energy

    • Produced from the heat of the earth

    • Renewable

    • US produces the most geothermal energy in the world

  • Hydroelectric energy

    • Flowing water is captured to create energy

    • 2nd largest renewable energy source in the US

    • Environmentally friendly

    • Dams

  • Ocean energy

    • Large scale of use

      • Tidal

      • Wave

      • Ocean thermal energy conversion

    • Another form of hydropower

  • Renewable energy is constantly growing
  • Solar energy makes a lot of jobs

Friday: Africa map, presentation

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