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Madlene, I applaud you and your family’s effort to act as the life line to one of Armenia’s most beautiful and needy villages. I can only imagine what this place could be if one Diaporan family helped one Armenian village. Slowly but surely, Armenia and its population would start breathing.
So, here is our latest news – WE BOUGHT A HOUSE IN SHUSHI!That’s right, a house in the heart of Karabagh. It’s not like we will move there tomorrow, but maybe one day. For now, we’ll use it as a summer house. It needs a little bit of work so we have hired a young “Karindagtsi” who we’d met in 1999 when we were working as LCO volunteers. Abel is a young 24 year old who supports his family (Father, stepmother, younger brother (12) and his married brother and his wife). I will update on the work in future logs.
On another note, here is a message I received from the Ottawa Armenian Community. It is another problem we must tackle. It’s about the very low birthrate in Armenia.
Now, dangers of a population implosion
By David R. Francis The Christian Science MonitorOctober 07, 2004
Extracts are shown below from this article:
For decades, much has been written about the world's exploding population. But 60 countries, about a third of all nations, have fertility rates today below 2.1 children per woman, the number necessary to maintain a stable population. Half of those nations have levels of 1.5 or less. In Armenia, Italy, South Korea, and Japan, average fertility levels are now close to one child per woman.
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This baby dearth has potentially weighty economic consequences for governments worried about everything from economic vitality to funding future pension programs and healthcare. That's why many of them have been taking measures designed to encourage their citizens to multiply. For example:
• Starting this year, France's government has been awarding mothers of each new baby 800 euros, almost $1,000.
• In Italy, the government is giving mothers of a second child 1,000 euros.
• Japanese prefectures have been organizing hiking trips and cruises for single people - dating programs to halt the baby bust.
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At the moment, half of the growth in the world's population is taking place in six nations - India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Bangladesh.
The contrast with low-fertility countries shows in this statistic: All 25 member nations of the European Union added as many people to their total population in all of 2003 as India did in the first five days of that same year. India will have an extra half billion people by 2050.
Full information is available by clicking below:http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1007/p16s02-cogn.html
I’d like to hear some of your thoughts on this. Feel free to comment.
Madlene, I applaud you and your family’s effort to act as the life line to one of Armenia’s most beautiful and needy villages. I can only imagine what this place could be if one Diaporan family helped one Armenian village. Slowly but surely, Armenia and its population would start breathing.
So, here is our latest news – WE BOUGHT A HOUSE IN SHUSHI!That’s right, a house in the heart of Karabagh. It’s not like we will move there tomorrow, but maybe one day. For now, we’ll use it as a summer house. It needs a little bit of work so we have hired a young “Karindagtsi” who we’d met in 1999 when we were working as LCO volunteers. Abel is a young 24 year old who supports his family (Father, stepmother, younger brother (12) and his married brother and his wife). I will update on the work in future logs.
On another note, here is a message I received from the Ottawa Armenian Community. It is another problem we must tackle. It’s about the very low birthrate in Armenia.
Now, dangers of a population implosion
By David R. Francis The Christian Science MonitorOctober 07, 2004
Extracts are shown below from this article:
For decades, much has been written about the world's exploding population. But 60 countries, about a third of all nations, have fertility rates today below 2.1 children per woman, the number necessary to maintain a stable population. Half of those nations have levels of 1.5 or less. In Armenia, Italy, South Korea, and Japan, average fertility levels are now close to one child per woman.
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This baby dearth has potentially weighty economic consequences for governments worried about everything from economic vitality to funding future pension programs and healthcare. That's why many of them have been taking measures designed to encourage their citizens to multiply. For example:
• Starting this year, France's government has been awarding mothers of each new baby 800 euros, almost $1,000.
• In Italy, the government is giving mothers of a second child 1,000 euros.
• Japanese prefectures have been organizing hiking trips and cruises for single people - dating programs to halt the baby bust.
.......................
At the moment, half of the growth in the world's population is taking place in six nations - India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Bangladesh.
The contrast with low-fertility countries shows in this statistic: All 25 member nations of the European Union added as many people to their total population in all of 2003 as India did in the first five days of that same year. India will have an extra half billion people by 2050.
Full information is available by clicking below:http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1007/p16s02-cogn.html
I’d like to hear some of your thoughts on this. Feel free to comment.
posted by Raffi N at 3:53 PM
1 Comments:
What to do? Well, Western Armenians of all stripes could pack their stuff, sell their belongings and move to Armenia and have lots of babies where the relative cost of children is fairly low.
That's one thought. Of course, that one sentence could lead down many paths, which each could turn into a dissertation, but that's Haro's thoughts.
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