Cause Of The Poverty Cycle Essay

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There are many causes to poverty and the best way to explain it is through the poverty cycle. The poverty cycle starts with limited money and due to limited money they can 't pay to get school supplies or go to school. With the lack of education you get really poor jobs that don’t pay much or none at all. Without money you can’t buy any food and that leads to malnutrition. Without nutrition you are more likely to get sick by possibly a curable disease. From this sickness you will have to take time out of your job and you might even lose your job. This leads you back to square one with limited money. With these jobs you are already working as many hours humanly possible and you still can’t make it by. These people are called working poor. They …show more content…
My organization will be called essentials. These donation boxes will be filled with many essential things such as Band aids, water bottles, soap, rice, chapstick, toothbrush, toothpaste, notebook and pencil. All of these this will help with their health and school. This will decrease the amount of money spent in these people 's lives. I believe that helping people stay healthy and educated will be a great start to getting them out of poverty because they will be able to work more often and get their children educated or possibly themselves educated. When you add education to these people 's lives you are strengthening their possibility to getting a better jobs. The cost for these things will be very cheap and I can get a good amount of these things a dollar tree or target. We will be putting them into boxes and shipping them off. We can try to use the main gym as a holding places. Using the cheerleaders and football players to get people will be easy because I am on the cheer team, my brother is on the football team and my father is a coach for the football team. We can hand out flyers with details. My action plan will be very helpful and very cheap. If it does get out there than I might be able to get places like walmart or target to possible give out a donation towards helping get

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