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It would be wrong to paint the developing world as the repository of all human misery, very wrong. Progress is being made. In the past four decades life expectancy has increased by some 20 years, while the infant mortality rate has fallen by more than half. Writes-Concern Chief Executive David Begg. As Begg states aid is making progress and it is centred in the changing role of women in these developing societies. In Ireland gender equality is taken for granted but this is not the case in the developing world. In the poverty stricken country of Azerbaijan females are treated as second class citizens. Efforts to prevent this are being made by the International Rescue Committee though aid. They train women as community health outreach workers, focusing on the issues such as basic first aid, reproductive health, pre and post-natal care, nutrition, hygiene, and immunizations.
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