Getting to Know International Organizations

For my blog this week I will continue to talk about The Children’s Defense Fund. “The Children Defense Fund is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for more than  40 years to ensure a level playing field for all children” (Children Defense Fund). They help children out of poverty, protect them from abuse and neglect, make sure they have health care and quality education.

I learned that the founder Marian Wright Edelman worked with Martin Luther King as counsel for Poor People’s Campaign. In her career she fought for the people that were struggling with poverty and discrimination to help them over come it.

One insight I gained was in “2015 more than 14.5 million children in America were poor, two thirds in working families” (Children Defense Fund). In 2017 the census reported child poverty is at its record high in the United States children under the age of 6 are the poorest.

Reference:

http://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/endingchildpoverty/