Thousands of children suffer landmine injuries each year. A landmine explosion is more likely to kill or seriously injure a child than an adult. The conditions for maintenance of child’s health deteriorate in war, nutrition, water safety, sanitation, housing, access to health services. There may be loss of immunity to disease vectors with population movement, ethnic cleansing, and refugee life leave lasting physical impacts in sexually-transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, psychological impacts and changes in life trajectory. The experience of indifference from the surrounding world, worse malevolence may affect children’s moral structure and lie, steal, and sell sex to survive. They may have their moral structure forcibly dismantled and replaced in training to kill as part of a military force, lose their community and its culture, sometimes having it reconstituted in diaspora situations. Education supports the growth of civil society, democracy, and political stability, allowing learning about the rights and acquiring the skills and knowledge necessary to exercise them. We need more connective tissue between education and health of our children which may not be fragmented, disarrayed, and difficult to access. In other words, we don’t have a system that guarantees children’s health and well-being. Our approach is hit or miss, unless from a privileged family and then count on getting wraparound health care, mental health services, and regular dental care. Is it any wonder, then, that children from these families routinely learn at higher levels, on average, than children who lack adequate access to health care? An education reform effort that seeks to confront systemic barriers to health and wellness, leveling the playing field for students. Education is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, health stands as the supreme catalyst to the central core of childhood curriculum, as we can’t educate the children who are not healthy and we can’t keep them healthy if they are not educated. The advancement in pedagogy must be a phenomenal template of education and health of children around the globe. Remember to open a school door, closes a prison!
Huma Kirmani By
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