| There are many ways of helping children in Africa I | | | | like Swaziland it has been said that children even |
| will highlight just a few below. Read on until the end | | | | collapse in classes because of hunger making it hard |
| and you will realize how easy it is to help. | | | | for them tom learn or concentrate in class. |
| Helping them through Education | | | | Most children do not have the necessary skills to |
| This is every child's right but African children are | | | | grow their own food, their parents die when they |
| deprived of this right because of many reasons. With | | | | are still too young to learn the art of growing food. |
| the right education children are well empowered to | | | | Some of these children do not have an idea where |
| face the challenges they life brings to them. The | | | | their last meal will come from and live on donations |
| importance of education among children can never be | | | | and handouts. Help to provide food security for |
| over emphasized. Education is a promise of a better | | | | African children will ensure that there are no more |
| future, which can break the poverty chain in families. | | | | children who die because of hunger. |
| Through offering Protection | | | | Helping children in African through providing Shelter |
| African children get exposed to numerous harsh living | | | | More and more of Africa's children are homeless |
| conditions from time to time. They are vulnerable to | | | | most probably will live the rest of their lives in the |
| abuse, rape, kidnapping, having their rights ignored | | | | streets if there is no help for them. Every child |
| etc. Their own parents abuse some of the children | | | | deserves to grow up at home but this is possible for |
| and laws are sickeningly lenient in dealing with the | | | | children who do not have parents to give them a |
| offenders. | | | | home. Help in the form of halfway homes or |
| Although legislation alone is not enough to ensure the | | | | orphanages are one of the ways to give the children |
| children are safe and protected but it can play a | | | | a home environment. |
| major role and send a message to any would be | | | | It is expensive for the already struggling economies |
| abuser. Children should not find themselves in the | | | | of Africa to do this they need help. The land may be |
| streets having no one to take care of then especially | | | | there as construction sites but there are no |
| after their parents die. I strongly believe that any | | | | resources for the construction and the running of |
| child, no matter his or her background and origin, | | | | such facilities. Another way to help African children |
| should be protected from harm's way. | | | | have shelter would be to use the land that they are |
| Food | | | | left with by their parents to construct houses where |
| As a basic necessity for any human being to live it is | | | | they can live and call home. This way they do not |
| necessary that children go to bed having eaten | | | | give up their ancestral land with all the resources |
| something than going for days without food and | | | | there. |
| some even die of hunger. In most African countries | | | | |