Stopping Overpopulation, One Educated Woman At a Time

Overpopulation is affecting so many citizens all over the underdeveloped world today. I heard about this issue briefly in Social Studies one day and decided to explore it further for my Change the World project. I found out through research that every woman living in an under-developed country will have at least 7-8 babies by the time she is fifteen. I found it disturbing that women would be mothers for so many children by that young of an age.  This inspired me to learn more about this topic so that I could help with the solution. I found that there are many ways to help with this issue. One way is by educating women in developing countries that they have a choice in the amount of offspring they have and on how to use contraception to exercise that choice. After I had done all the research, I presented the overpopulation issue with its problems and solutions to my class so I could take the first step of educating others. I asked them to take 3 quick steps with me to help improve the overpopulation problem.   I encouraged them to take these three easy steps:
1) Go to Population Connection, 
https://secure3.convio.net/zpg/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=121 
2) Review the Letter, Complete your information
3) Click SEND
About 3 or 4 days after I had given the presentation, my friend Gabi was the first to take this important step towards education on contraception for women in underdeveloped countries. She followed the three easy steps and sent the letter which basically explained to our congressmen that we needed more education on contraception for women in third-world countries. A couple days later, Gabi got an email from a Dick Durbin saying all the things he had done and how he was supportive of this issue.  He was pleased I reached out to him.  I was so happy that she did this because I influenced someone to take the same call to action that I did to help a problem I find very important to solve.  You can also help with this issue by following the three easy steps above. Please SEND the letter because even if it seems like a small effort, each letter tells our representatives that we want them to help support these womens' issues and hopefully they will respond and impact a whole lot of womens' lives for the better.