7 Billion Humans | Empty Pockets

Empty pockets - The Fertile Poor: Half of Uganda's population is under the age of 15 and they have one of the highest fertility rates on the planet (6.7 children per woman) and ranks third from the bottom in education. Uganda just does not have enough support for young people. It is also third in the world for stresses in health and infrastructure. It doesn't help that their President Museveni looks to China as a healthy role model and believes it is the number of "boots on the...
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Empty pockets - The Fertile Poor: Half of Uganda's population is under the age of 15 and they have one of the highest fertility rates on the planet (6.7 children per woman) and ranks third from the bottom in education. Uganda just does not have enough support for young people. It is also third in the world for stresses in health and infrastructure. It doesn't help that their President Museveni looks to China as a healthy role model and believes it is the number of "boots on the ground" (he is former military) that has led to their success. So Museveni just wants to wait until the thirty million in Uganda hits sixty million before he even thinks about putting in any extra infrastructure for them. One of the side affects of this is that Kampala has become one big parking lot. The traffic just sits there and the only way to get anywhere is to hire a boda boda, a guy on a dirt bike who weaves between all the bumpers of the parked traffic. I witnessed the worst maternity ward imaginable there--women brought a tattered sheet of plastic with them to the maternity ward because they knew they would give birth on a hospital hallway floor, probably along with multiple women giving multiple births (twins, twins, twins,) on their little sheets of plastic while the few beds were full of multiple women and not enough staff to save anyone's life if there were complications. Uganda's population has doubled since 1990.
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