The Issues of Poverty
An estimation of 1.4 billion citizens in third world countries are living on $1.25 or less (“Know Your World…”). It is impossible to make a living on that little of money. To solve the problem of poverty they have to be able to make enough money to provide for their families and survive. The definition of poverty is a situation of having meager resources, whether it is money, food, living space etc. (“Dictionary.Com”). Poverty is a worldwide problem and until people start helping the it will only spread. A way to start with diminishing poverty is to start with one area or country, then going on to others. Some people say that with direct help towards the impoverished countries is not doing being used right. Though people …show more content…
At an estimation of one out of every three people in sub-Saharan Africa do not get enough nutrition daily (“10 Poverty In...”). In Sub-Saharan Africa around 214 million people do not get enough food each day (“Know Your World...”). Those people are not helping themselves either, because if they are hungry then they will not be able to perform their best and then they will be digging deeper into the grave that is poverty. At a ratio of one in every six babies born are underweight in countries (“Know Your World...”). Those babies that are born in those situations are fighting from their first breath, but sometimes they lose the fight without a chance. If they do not have access to proper nutrition they can not get better, and have extreme deficits if they do not die. A study shows that a child dies every ten seconds from diseases related to hunger (“Know Your World:...”). It shows that children are losing the fight they should not be in. If those kids were given proper nutrition who knows what they could have become, but because of their situation they never got the chance. Gandhi once said that, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread”(“Better World Quotes…”). Those that are starving will take what they can get, and take it as a blessing that they can get anything at all. It should not be that way …show more content…
Marian Wright Edelman, an activist for the rights of children, stated, “Education is for improving the lives of other and for leaving your community and world better than you found it” (“African American Quotes”). This is very true for sub-Saharan Africa, if they had the tools necessary to learn their situations could improve majorly. They can learn things to help and modernize their communities as well. There are 33 million elementary-aged children in Sub-Saharan Africa are unable to get an education, and 18 million of those kids are girls (“Facts On Education”). If they do not go to school they do not have a chance at learning anything to help them. If they cannot get the education they need then it can only add to the list of problems they will soon have. A study in 2008 showed that there was an unequal amount of males and females attending school in sub-Saharan Africa. For those from the lower income families there was 30% of boys and 25% of girls who were attending school (“Girls ' Education in…”). There needs to be an equal amount of both boys and girls attending school, so that they can both have the opportunity to better themselves. Then to hurt themselves worse, just two-thirds of students who start elementary school follow through to the final grade (“Facts On Education”). Those that do go are going to have a slightly bigger advantage in
An estimation of 1.4 billion citizens in third world countries are living on $1.25 or less (“Know Your World…”). It is impossible to make a living on that little of money. To solve the problem of poverty they have to be able to make enough money to provide for their families and survive. The definition of poverty is a situation of having meager resources, whether it is money, food, living space etc. (“Dictionary.Com”). Poverty is a worldwide problem and until people start helping the it will only spread. A way to start with diminishing poverty is to start with one area or country, then going on to others. Some people say that with direct help towards the impoverished countries is not doing being used right. Though people …show more content…
At an estimation of one out of every three people in sub-Saharan Africa do not get enough nutrition daily (“10 Poverty In...”). In Sub-Saharan Africa around 214 million people do not get enough food each day (“Know Your World...”). Those people are not helping themselves either, because if they are hungry then they will not be able to perform their best and then they will be digging deeper into the grave that is poverty. At a ratio of one in every six babies born are underweight in countries (“Know Your World...”). Those babies that are born in those situations are fighting from their first breath, but sometimes they lose the fight without a chance. If they do not have access to proper nutrition they can not get better, and have extreme deficits if they do not die. A study shows that a child dies every ten seconds from diseases related to hunger (“Know Your World:...”). It shows that children are losing the fight they should not be in. If those kids were given proper nutrition who knows what they could have become, but because of their situation they never got the chance. Gandhi once said that, “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread”(“Better World Quotes…”). Those that are starving will take what they can get, and take it as a blessing that they can get anything at all. It should not be that way …show more content…
Marian Wright Edelman, an activist for the rights of children, stated, “Education is for improving the lives of other and for leaving your community and world better than you found it” (“African American Quotes”). This is very true for sub-Saharan Africa, if they had the tools necessary to learn their situations could improve majorly. They can learn things to help and modernize their communities as well. There are 33 million elementary-aged children in Sub-Saharan Africa are unable to get an education, and 18 million of those kids are girls (“Facts On Education”). If they do not go to school they do not have a chance at learning anything to help them. If they cannot get the education they need then it can only add to the list of problems they will soon have. A study in 2008 showed that there was an unequal amount of males and females attending school in sub-Saharan Africa. For those from the lower income families there was 30% of boys and 25% of girls who were attending school (“Girls ' Education in…”). There needs to be an equal amount of both boys and girls attending school, so that they can both have the opportunity to better themselves. Then to hurt themselves worse, just two-thirds of students who start elementary school follow through to the final grade (“Facts On Education”). Those that do go are going to have a slightly bigger advantage in