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Prevent Child from Hepatatis.

Hepatitis B vaccine usually is given as a series of three injections. The first shot is given to infants shortly after birth. If the mother of a newborn carries the hepatitis B virus in her blood, the infant needs to receive the first shot within 12 hours after birth, along with another shot (HBIG) to immediately provide protection against the virus. If a newborn's mother shows no evidence of HBV in her blood, the infant may receive the hepatitis B vaccine any time prior to leaving the hospital. It may also be delayed until the 4- or 8-week visit to the child's doctor.

If the first dose is given shortly after birth, the second shot is given at 1 to 4 months and the third at 6 to 18 months. For infants who don't receive the first shot until 4 to 8 weeks, the second shot is given at 3 to 4 months and the third at 6 to 18 months. In either case, the second and third shots are usually given in conjunction with other routine childhood immunizations.

The hepatitis B vaccine usually creates long-term immunity. Infants who receive the HBV series should be protected from hepatitis B infection not only throughout their childhood but also into the adult years. Eliminating the risk of infection also decreases risk for cirrhosis of the liver, chronic liver disease, and liver cancer. Young adults and adolescents should also receive the vaccine if they did not as infants.

Your child may experience fever, soreness, and some swelling and redness in the area where the shot was given. Pain and fever may be treated with acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Check with your child's doctor about the appropriate dose.

Micro Finance
Microfinance is a powerful aid. It gives poor families a chance to improve their livelihoods through their own economic activities. Often, the one thing preventing the poor from raising their standard of living is lack of access to financial services that would help them start or expand their businesses or prevent risks.

The benefits that microfinance bring to poor families goes beyond increased income and employment. It also provides greater opportunity for children to go to school, for families to obtain health insurance, and for the poor to make choices that best serve their needs. For many women, microfinance proves to be a powerful instrument of social change. More and more we see women from traditional societies being drawn into commercial economic activities. In many cases, this is due to a small loan or savings or other service provided by a credit union, women&rsquo;s cooperative, or peasant organizations, which allows them to start or maintain a business.

Despite popular notions that the poor do not have any use for financial services, they need saving, remittances, and other services, and they do not represent a high credit risk. In fact, repayment rates are higher among clients of microfinance institutions than those of commercial banks. Poor women often have the best credit ratings. Nevertheless, nearly half the people in the world do not have access to basic financial services simply because they are not available to them.

Microfinance programs may be an effective way to answer broader social issues while improving the lives of many poor families.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.-Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

CHILD BEGGING
We watch them daily raising their little hands before strangers and most of the time they are screamed at. Isn’t it possible that these little beggars are just another group of harassed victims? Or worse, the ugly face of a bonded life, blatantly existing in metros.

Everyday we see a number of children begging on the roads and we just turn our backs on them by saying, "What can we do?"

More than our money, these little beggars expect compassion towards their tragic lives so that they could be rescued from this vicious circle of poverty and pain. They are helpless and seek public support.

A beggar’s life is far more tragic than we can imagine. Standing at traffic signals, begging for that elusive rupee or two in exchange for a flower or a balloon can be anything but personal choice.

Most begging children don’t actually have a choice. They just have to work irrespective of fever or any other disease. Teenager girl beggars suffer the worst. Be it a lorry-driver, auto-rickshaw driver or the notorious traffic policeman, all look at them with bad intention. And, the poor helpless girls cannot do much about it.

The biggest problem facing today is their incapacity to do something about their situation. What have to do is to say themselves that if there is beggar on the street, it is their problem also. If there is trash on the street, it is their problem too.They are living in hope that one day they will have a goverment whose leaders will solve their innumerable problems. That will not happen, my fellow countrymen. God will only help us if we help ourselves, if we accept that the trash in front of our house is our problem, not just the city goverment's. Then only we will able to get it off the streets. From my analysis of the situation, I can confidently say that the sightless goverment and the incompetent cannot do what the citizens can do themselves collectively.