How can spreading awareness lead to helping Yemen?
Above is my essential question. Me and my group are planning on spreading awareness on social media for Yemen because they need help. Our plan is to spread awareness about Yemen so people can see what is actually going on in this country. Our question is meaningful to we because if people realize what is happening. Because I am sure that not many people know about their crisis. They dont have many basic things like usable electricity or even basic drinking water. For me i definitely think this is a huge problem for their country.
I thought this video was really good about this topic because it shows that not many people know about Yemen and whats going on in it. I discussed this topic above a bit but that directly shows why there needs to be more people spreading awareness because if nobody knows about it then how can we help them? People also need to be educated about this topic about Yemen so they understand what it is and how to help it.
Sources
1 – Yemen – Real lives
Author – Unicef
In this article it talks about the different diseases that people in Yemen get from drinking dirty water or eating unhealthy food. And also how 25 rapid respone teams helped the people. This article is really helping by spreading the word about these problems.
Source : https://www.unicef.org/yemen/reallives_12764.html
2 – “We call it the forgotten war” says Yemeni immigrant
Author – Clare Hennig – CBC News
When i found this article it blew my mind because just by the title its says “the forgotten war” because not many people at all know about it or are educated about it. In quotations “One Yemeni immigrant in Vancouver, Wyle Baoween, said he is shocked at how little awareness there is about the conflict” directly from the article. And me and my group want to do exactly what Wyle wants to do which is increase awareness. And it being from an immigrant from the country makes it even better because he actually experienced what its like there.
3 – Joint U.S-Yemen project raises awareness of mental health in war-torn country
Author – Laura Kelly – The Washington Times
I picked this article because it highlights multiple things that we are looking for. First of all it helps by understanding that other people are als trying to spread awareness about this and not only us. And second it highlights another issue in a country like this which is mental health. Imagine not being able to go outside because there is literally a war going on outside on the streets. It would’nt be uncommon for people to start developing mental health issues. In this article it says that mental health treatment is being forgotten of in Yemen and other middle eatern countrys facing these same problems. Laura Kelly explains this and while having “spreading awareness” in mind.
Source : https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/6/joint-us-yemen-project-raises-awareness-mental-hea/
When finding these sources i have also found many more i read through and i think those and these 3 i presented definitely helped me answer my big question. There are dozens of ways countries like Yemen are struggling and it gives me and my group an idea of how to approach spreading awareness to other people so they can help.
1 – Questions
Do you think it is possible for the governement to help or not?
Could the governement have prevented all of this from happening before?
Why do you think the mafia is doing all of this?
2 – What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
I used Google and Creative Commons.
3 – How did you verify and cite the information you found?
If its a site that i know or a site that in my opinion would be real i would use that. There were many sites that i were gonna use but it didn’t seem real.
4 – Show your research in a works cited
Youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JtZen8El0A
Picture (using creative commons) : https://www.google.com/search?q=yemen+war&tbs=sur:fmc&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCzpThwbDhAhUhjlQKHfUVASEQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=937#imgrc=94TWWHdEXnoJ4M:
How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
I dont think i could think of something that culd of gone better but i know that the process went really smoothly and straight forward.