pe Castlegar Sun, Wednesday, February 9, 1994 ‘oject Literacy Necent meeting of the ar Branch of Project Liter- Sais it might be like to live with a learning disability. They saw non-learning dis- abled adults experience high levels Of frustration and anxiety as they.tried to cope with mate- rial presented in ways that gave an inkling of What a leafning disabled might experience This video, “How difficult can this be”, is available from the local chapter of the Learning Disability Association of B.C Learning disabilities are only & Perfume Sor. Him & Her "2.5 'FL. OZ./75 ML $49.98 2.5 FL. OZ./75 ML $49.98 60 ML $39.98 - Coot Water Giorgio - Beverly Hills We're Your Valentine's Headquarters eoeee Ne have a huge selection of gifts, decorations, sweets, wrapping paper, a a * and more. ee ¢ . ° Fa Stop in today and get ready for a eres Valentine ' 's Day! Bane CmaRies MOSSEAL PS PHARMASAVE 1128 - 3rd St., (Downtown) Castlegar 365-7813 y West Kootenay helpi one of many reasons why ing British Columbians have prob- lems with everyday reading and writing. Project L: y provides volunteer tuters to work with adults who want help in this areas The Castlegar coordinator, Susan Port, also brought mem- bers up to date on the volunteer tutoring program. There are Investing in -ttving in a remote village in the ‘cart of Mali, and her Canadian counterpart have in common? Like mothers eve they want their children to grow up strong and healthy. But they may as well be living on different _ planets-wher it comes to tehliaing that dream. Married at 16, Assetou, a Malian woman, has spent most of her adult life pregnant. Out of nine births, six children have sur- vived. More than one in 10 infants in her country, one of the poorest in sub-Saharan Africa, die before reaching their first birth- day. In many cases, they die _ because of a simple thing like a lack of immunization coverage. Barely 45 per cent of all Malian babies have been immn- nized against the six deadliest childhood diseafes (measles, diphtheria, polio, tetanus, whoop- ing cough and tuberculosis), com- pared to more than 85 per cent of Canadian children. Assetou doesn’t read these United Nations’ statistics. In fact, she doesn’t read at all. But it would come as no surprise to her to learn that her own life expectancy may be only 46 years — an age at which many Cafiadi- an women are just reaching their prime years, with another 31 to look forward to. Pregnancy is a.game of Rus- sian roulette for women in Mali where about 2,000 women in 1993 PONTIAC SUNBIRD doéi sedan * A., conditioning . ih Lt. over head cam engine e Autgmatic transmission * Antilock braking system * Power door locks * Cassette stereo system _ © LOTS OF EXTRAS! 1992 PONTIAC GRAND AM * A door sedan ¢-2.3 Lt. F.F.I. engine Presently ten tutors meeting ularly with adult learners. re 4 Castlegar. Seven of those who were previously tutored are now attending classes at Selkirk Col- lege, which is very encouraging. A further two dozen tutor/learn- er pairs are meeting in other West Kootenay communities. There will be a trajning ses- sion for new tutors starting learning disabled * mid-March and more volunteers are needed, Anyone wishing more information on tutoring, or on getting help with reading and writing, can call the public library. The second annual book and bake sale will be held in May. Everyone: was urged to start collecting surplus books, espe- cially books for children. people around the world_ 100,000 die giving birth. Fate is much kinder to their Canadi calling for a major shift 10 more pro- sisters, whose chances of dying in childbirth are only 5 in 100,000. * Dr. Edward Ragan, Pro- gram Director Canada’s International Immunization Program. Prete eubeied In 1992-93, Canada earmarked $2.83 billion in overseas develop- ment assistance (ODA) to, arnong other things, help women and children in Mali live longer, healthier lives. But, like everything else, money for ODA is getting tight. Last year's spending was decreased from the previous fiscal year’s budget of $3.18 billion. For 1993-94, ODA is expected to be further reduced to $2.68 billion, following 10 per cent budget cut- backs made last year to the Cana- dian International Development _ Agency (CIDA) which: adminis- ters 75 per cent of the federal ODA budget. Put another way, ODA current- ly accounts for two cents out of every dollar the federal govern- ment spends. But some Canadians still think that’s too much. According to the most recent jects that focus on basic haman needs, such as health, education, literacy, clean’ water and family services. Currently, less than seven per cent of aid goes to human priority concerns such as these. The investment required to help level the playing field ‘ ‘between rich and poor quite modest, says UNICEF's State of the World's Children 1994, By the year 2000, given the political will, it should be possible to bring an end to child malnutri- tion, preventable disease and widespread illiteracy at an ‘esti- ‘mated annual cost of $25 billion — less than what Europeans will spend this year on wine, or Amer- icans on beer. ‘The issue is not the amount of money spent to improve the health of people in developing countries, but how it’s spent. In many developing countries, health care spending is heavily skewed towards expensive measures such as big-city hospitals, speciglist training and certain types of surgery. In some cases, the cost of a single teaching hospital can consume more than one-fifth of the national health budget. _Immunization tops the list of highly cost-effective initiatives, needed to improve the world’s health, according to the World Bank, which praises the world- wide Expanded Programme on Immunization (EP1), run by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Canada is.an EPI partner, hav- ing launched the second phase of its international immunization in 1991, with a $30 mil lion contribution from CIDA. Managed by the Canadian Public public opinion survey on towards development assistance, commissioned by CIDA in 1991, although 80 per cent of Canadians supported ODA in principle, 87 per cent said that Canada should help needy Canadians first Perhaps this is not surprising, considering that at least three mil- lion Canadians are. currently unemployed or have given up looking for work, and that Canada has more than two food banks for every McDonald's outlet. It is against this backdrop of fiscal restraint in the developed world that many experts at the World Bank and elsewhere are Health A , Canada’s International Immunization Pro- gram (CIIP) was part of the global effort that achieved an 80 per cent immunization coverage level of the world’s children in 1990, and seeks to reach a 90 per cent cov- erage level by the year 2000. Through global immunization, three million children’s lives are saved each year. CIIP now sup- ports 52 projects in 26 developing countries with 24 non-govern- mental organizations, mostly Canadian. Consider that all human ispes share a common environment and that poverty and poor health is a direct cause of environmental damage. Consider, too, that poverty reduction and improved health of people in developing countries means that those citi- zens can become customers for Canadian geods and setvices. ‘ ‘Rinally, consider that if and when conditions in the poorer countries improve, there will be less chance of civil unrest and migration pres- sures, all of which curently The Castlegar Sun Submitted February 14 is Gold Heart Day—a fundraising the aepron oa Many retailers . London Drugs. Sears, 1: Eleven, ABC involving Variety Clubs around the world and Variety Club Supporters from corporations and the media. Variety Club International's slo- gan “Wear your heart on your sleeve to show that you care” encourages + MimBeltish Columbia, Barbara Stewart, Chairman of B.C.’s Gold Heart Day, reports that support from the see world has been phenomenal this ye: “We've been very oy to enlist Centre Mall, and B.C. Credit Unions are all helping us distribute Gold Hearts. 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