Karlo Will Live

Ashley Hofsommer
New York Times
March 6, 2008

"To put it another way, the late James P. Grant, a little-known American aid worker who headed Unicef from 1980 to 1995 and launched the child survival revolution with vaccinations and diarrhea treatments, probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined." This is one of the facts given by the writer of this article. In the beginning of the article the writer (who remains unknown) assures us that this will be a happy article. Most things written about Africa or the children inhabiting it are very sad, so for me this was a relief. The writer starts out talking about how although child death rates are high, they are steadily dropping. He then begins talking about an 8-month old baby, Karlo. Karlo's brother had died and then he fell sick. The writer gives us a little information and then BOOM! Somehow he says this directly involves the current run for presidency. What a sneaky little man! He begins saying that Bush fought AIDS in Africa well, but he hasn't given enough money for children and maternity. Ok......Anyway, he then says that a new president could easily wipe out about 1million deaths a year. Pretty much what he says is "Vote Democrat or all of the African babies will die" He almost had me, but I felt kind of betrayed when I found out he wasn't just happy about little Karlo living and that he actually had an agenda. Silly me! I thought that the article could be pretty good. He definitely will be able to snag some people with the image of little Karlo bouncing on his mother's lap.