A street child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, a day ahead of Universal Children’s Day. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.
Crazy. We just talked about this in my Third World Development class. I feel like learning about the atrocities in the world is at once inspiring, because there really is change going on so clearly it’s possible, but also disheartening because there’s SO much left to be done that sometimes it seems like we’ll never get 100% progress.
And we probably won’t, but if you change even one person’s life, it makes it all worth it.
