The End of Poverty? Tea Pluckers

In Kenya, tea is the largest export and main source of revenue. This is how those who pluck your Earl Gray tea live...

www.TheEndOfPoverty.com
Theatrical Release: Sept. 2009

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Entertainment

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• poverty
• documetary
• africa
• kenya
• tea

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 But please, if there's any research showing that condom use is not beneficial in starving, HIV infested sub-Saharan Africa, then I'd love to see it. I honestly thought the only people who believed that were Catholics.

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 "In the 28 countries with the largest USAID-sponsored family planning programs, the average number of children per family has declined by more than one-third, from more than 6 children per family to fewer than 4. In densely populated Bangladesh, for example, the number of children per family has fallen by about half in just four decades." - USAID. It's not some random thought I had either.

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 "...more than 75% of maternal deaths could be prevented. If accomplished over the next decade, the lives of more than one million women would be saved." - Alternative Strategies to Reduce Maternal Mortality in India: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Goldie Sue J., Sweet S., et al. Just another source, in case you (understandably) don't trust a government agency.

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 "In just 5 y, more than 150,000 maternal deaths would be averted through increasing contraception rates to meet women's needs for spacing and limiting births; nearly US$1.5 billion would be saved by coupling safe abortion to aggressive family planning efforts; and with stepwise investments to improve access to pregnancy-related health services and to high-quality facility-based intrapartum care...(cont)"

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 "Early intensive efforts to improve family planning and control of fertility choices and to provide safe abortion, accompanied by a paced systematic and stepwise effort to scale up capacity for integrated maternal health services over several years, is as cost-effective as childhood immunization or treatment of malaria, tuberculosis, or HIV." (cont)

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 More name calling, more strawman. I know we use way more resources than they do. How does that change the fact that they're starving and could benefit from having less mouths to feed? Again, I support aid, but I also think the long term goal should be self-sufficiency, not dependence on foreign aid. And the United States Agency for International Development agrees with me about family planning. Where it's been tried, it has reduces population growth and infant mortality.

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 I know. That's why I'm not having any kids. Also, I never said they don't need aid. I just said it should be supplemented with family planning.

[Venue0309]

@Venue0309 This is not some random thought I had. If you do your research before talking, you will understand my point and how dumb your point about condoms was.

People like you are the ones that really need to rethink your place in the world. Instead of being selfish, talking about these people are using too many resources, you should cut back and live on only the resourcare they use each day. Then you wouldn't be so arrogant.

[Venue0309]

@yehcnimoigres The irony with your statement is that they--with all of their kids-- use less resources than an average American. So you wearing a condom and not procreating would save more resources.

Another point--if you want to reduce population growth, increasing living standards targeted through quality food, shelter and healthcare will work best. Families then would need less kids to earn a living and to carry on the family line.

[yehcnimoigres]

@Venue0309 Did I fucking say they need bibles? Way to strawman. How is it shortsighted to suggest that they stabilize their population growth so that they need less resources and don't have so many kids suffering from malnutrition and starvation? To me it seems shortsighted to think that populations can just grow indefinitely while increasing the standard of living. Either we humans can realize our carrying capacity though birth control, or we can let nature do it through starvation and disease.