How Needy Children Can Be Helped?

Essay by PaperNerd ContributorCollege, Undergraduate October 2001

download word file, 2 pages 0.0

Downloaded 1246 times

How can Needy Children Best be helped? Children always need love, care, and protection. Children that are without their parents and loved ones can be termed as needy children. They are the one who really need the care and dedication. There are various ways in which such a child can be brought up to live in this earth without any misery. Some of the ways are: education, health, and orphan centers.

Education greatly helps the children to be on their own. Children that don't have anyone have the problem of feeding themselves. Their basic concern is to feed and clothe their bodies. Such children can do any acts to fulfill their basic desires. Since children are basically innocent, there are people who take benefits at the expense of these children. In some circumstances, it has been seen that the employer is beating the children without any mercy at a minor mistake.

There are cases where children are sexually abused to fulfill the carnal desire of sadistic man just for the sake of money they greatly need. It shows how uncared and unloving they are in this world. This situation may encourage them to be involved in bad habits, even of taking drugs. Education can however help these children by making them self-reliant and self-independent. Moreover, it enables them to be the good citizens of the country. It helps them think that they are in this world not to be cared for but to do things that the country and societies will be proud of.

Needy children can also be helped through health awareness programs and other activities. Most of the needy children are in bad health. Since there is no one to look after and help them when they are in trouble, they are basically malnourished. Programs such as collecting funds for the needy children can greatly help in nourishing these children. Besides, Government policies to look after the health of these children frequently free of cost can also help in keeping these children away from the diseases. Routine check-ups and availability of free medicines can keep the children fit and healthy. Even programs like vaccination and other vitamin supplies can greatly help the needy children.

Orphan centers can also contribute much in the proper guidance and counseling of the needy children. There are instances that the children being falling into bad habit even in the care of parents. So, there is greater chance that needy children are more likely to take bad habits and end up doing bad acts. It has thus become more important to have orphan centers that can provide proper guidance and tutelage to the children.

Needy children are one of the biggest problems faced by most of the developing countries. Various negative social impacts have developed due to the negligence on the part of the government to control this situation. It have thus become necessary to help the needy children by providing better education, better health and better housing centers for they are the future of tomorrow.