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Worldwide Healthcare Crisis

Over time, science has developed new ways to fight diseases and improve sanitation. Unfortunately, many people in poorer countries do not have access to these medications and vaccines. Over one billion people world-wide lack or do not have access to proper healthcare. 1.1 billion people do not have access to water, 1.7 million people die from tuberculosis yearly, malaria kills 780,000 yearly, and worse, over 7.5 million people die from malnutrition and preventable diseases. Measles vaccines cost only one dollar, 168,000 people died from the disease in 2008 (Global Issues). Look at all the figures above. Those are recorded statistics on the problem. Think how many are not recorded. Think about how we could save lives by providing the countries that have poor healthcare with decent healthcare. Our plan to help this is to raise money to provide decent healthcare to the people in third world countries and to help curb the death rate. To provide health, and maybe hope, to people living with diseases that they alone can not prevent or cure. We plan to raise money by fundraisers, donations, and lobbying governments of well-to-do nations for money. Every year we’ll have a large fundraiser called Cakes for Cures which for each cake sold, most of the profit will go to our cause, the rest for the company that made the cake. We also plan to team up with pharmaceutical companies to be able to provide low cost drugs and vaccines. The money we manage to raise will go to the construction of clinics and hospitals in areas that are in need of clinics and hospitals, funding of those clinics, free inoculations, low-cost medications to those who have diseases, the building of clean water facilities, and volunteer excursions that help with all the above. We hope that we can raise enough money to do the above and maintain the existence of our organization.

Work Cited Shah, Anup. "Health Issues." //Global Issues//. 22 Sept. 2011. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. .