October 2017 – Anjika's Portfolio

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The Island Foundation

What are the most significant challenges facing the Orang Suku Laut?

The economy is not so developed so providing education or proper equipment and healthcare could be one of their main challenges. It is also probably hard to be very successful there unless you are known shopkeeper. The education would be affected by the lack of qualified members of staff such as teachers or trainers since the availability to learning equipment is low. The healthcare is also a significant issue for the people there as firstly, the nearest hospital is an hour away considering the person has a car. Secondly, the doctors there aren’t even qualified. Sometimes they have the equipment but they wont know how to use it. This could also be because of the little population that stays there and the types of jobs they have which decrease their chances of obtaining proper education by skilled individuals.

How are The Island Foundation programmes addressing these challenges?

They have incorporated actions under Health and Nutrition, English and Kura Kura. They provide learning opportunities for them in the form of organic farming and sports (football). This encourages the kids there to have a basic knowledge and understanding of the importance of these skills and activities. Under Kura Kura, they teach them about arts and entrepreneurship. This also widens their skills as they have the understanding of recycling and how to start a business which could significantly help them in the future

Which programme interests you most and why?

The organic learning farm seems the most interesting to me as this is not very much specialised in Singapore as we don’t exactly focus much on the plants around us. We don’t usually put time aside during a day to learn much about the organic importance of nature and I really want the kids to understand the value of the nature around them since a lot of people nowadays are more focused on development which risks the environmental well being.

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India, Switzerland and Niger

LIFE EXPECTANCY

India:

The starting of the life expectancy was the lowest out of all (between 20 and 30) , however it also has the largest population compared to Switzerland and Niger, which could probably the main reason to its extremely low rates of life expectancy. Life expectancy rates start to rise drastically from 1920 onwards probably due to the development in areas such as health. This could be possible as technology increased as well as equipment to tend to illnesses. It seems to have a relatively consistent improvement in life expectancy with no sudden huge drops or inclines in the model.

Switzerland:

Switzerland has the highest starting life expectancy (around 40) out of the rest of the options. This would probably because it was more developed technologically and more equipped with the materials and knowledge on health related topics. This country also has cnotistenxt growth in terms of life expectancy over time because of improved healthcare. Switzerland also is generally known to be a richer country which could be the explanation to why it has the highest life expectancy (around 80 years)compared to India(60 to 70 years) and Niger (around 60 years).

Niger:

Niger by far took the longest time for the rates of life expectancy to incline perhaps due to the delay in money or equipment with materials or knowledge. However, it began with the life expectancy of around 30 years an stayed at this until the early 1940s while India and Switzerland and India’s life expectancy rates began raising from the late 1870s till 1920. This proves that it had the slowest development out of the 3 countries. However in 2015, its life expectancy rate has caught up to India’s in a short amount of time. However in the 1920s, the rates dropped very drastically which could be the reason for the delay in the rates.

C02 EMISSONS

India:

India doesn’t produce excess C02 until around 1910, which was probably when factories or the use of non renewable sources of energy was introduced. Before 1910 tho the rates of emissions were 0 which suggests that they have more control over their environment in terms of pollution. In total the emissions for India is not as high as Switzerland.

Switzerland:

Switzerland has been producing CO2 since 1860 which could probably the time industries discovered probably because it was more advanced in technology and development. Switzerland has a quite sudden drop during the 1940s probably because the pollution decreased a large amount. However, the general trend of it is not too inclined as it produces about the same amount of CO2from 1960s to 2013 and in the years before it hasn’t risen drastically.

Niger:

Niger compared to Switzerland and India was way behind in the missions of CO2 emissions. This could be due to the lack of technology and development which were the main causes in the excess of CO2. Even though it produced very little CO2 during 1980, it went back to producing no CO2 which is more likely to be due to the lack of technology or money in that country.