Reducing Child Mortality

     I read Article 4, which was to reduce child mortality. I specifically picked this topic because of how partial I am to children under the age of five. The UNICEF's goal was to reduce the mortality rate of children under the age of five by sixty-six percent. They didn't reach their goal; by 2015, the rate dropped by forty-seven percent between their starting year, 1990 and 2015.
     The mortality rate was so high in third world countries due to the range of diseases. However, in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Timor-Laste and United Republic of Tanzania have decreased their mortality rates by two thirds or more since the year 1990.
     I think it is so cool how the UN is partnering with so many different groups to create new organizations to help these children. I also love that these people working together to create a better world feel so strongly about it that they are actually changing the world.
     Not one of the billions of kids under the age of five have deserved it. For some of them, they will have gone through more in the first four years on this earth than we have in our entire lives; and because of these reasons, I picked the topic of Child Mortality: It means enough to some people that they make a difference for the whole world, not just the children they're protecting. Because even from reading Article 4, my life was still touched.