Mexico's Deforestation Problem

This semester we have been talking about many issues in developing countries and ways to fix them. Poverty, Climate change, Deforestation, Child Mortality are just a few of these issues. We learned about Mexico’s huge deforestation problem and that is having an enormous effect on the people living in the area. As well as, how Microcredit is being used in developing countries in the Latin American, sub-Saharan Africa and Asian regions to give people a better chance to improve themselves financially. At same time, countries in Africa are experiencing a lot of these problems like child mortality, protecting themselves from diseases like Cholera, AIDS, Malaria, Ebola, poverty and many more.
In order to fix these issues we need to make sure that …show more content…
The NGO Fundación Mariposas Amarillas ( Yellow Butterflies ) accommodates communities in poverty with education, recreational activities, workshops and also information on health, nutrition and many other things. The Fundación Mariposas Amarillas mainly works in Santa Marta, Colombia with children and their families. The founder of Yellow Butterflies Oscar Cortes was at one point of his life one of these kids living in the slums, he was part of a really poor family with many brothers and sisters and he puts it. He also talks about how most of his brothers and sisters left the house at a very young age. Even Oscar left his house when he was only 10 years old and he traveled Colombia by himself living on the streets and he would hear from time to time many people telling him that he shouldn’t living in the streets. He was moving from place to place until he was 17 years old when he decided to change and become a better person. Oscar wanted to help young kids and educate them so that they can have a better life and not suffer like he did when he was young. Oscar recognized that for most people over the age 15 that have no education, the opportunities to find jobs and work on anything are really hard to come by. In 2005 Oscar started the NGO Yellow butterflies in hopes to help these low income families in Santa Mart and the with help of local constructors and donations, he was able to build a small school where he could teach the children the basics of geography, science, math, and other basic subjects. He said that in the beginning it was hard to get kids to show up because the parents didn’t really knew him but he did his best to show the parents of the children the results of his work and how much they have learned. After a while he started to become more popular and he owns 2 schools that helps around 90 kids that live nearby. Most of the help he gets is from