Poverty Across The African Continent

Looking through the news and the display of Africa in the mainstream media, the term poverty and continent can’t seem to ever be separated. The audience of mainstream media would rather accept that the continent is riddled with poverty because they are largely unaffected by whatever goes on in the continent. But a major role of an educated society is to be able to use facts and evidence to challenge existing status quo about certain issues. In addition, many years after the independence of many African countries it is wrong to try to address the issue of poverty across the continent as one because every face unique and different situations. In a continent rich with limitless resources, poverty remains an epidemic; this is mainly due to the fact that a small population of many countries enjoys the wealth meant for the entire population. …show more content…
Many countries still have poverty rates of over 40% while the rest of the world have had their rates drop drastically. The stakeholder Our Africa has major interest in the development of the African continent. Their major purpose is to give African children a chance to film their lives how it happens. The organization is created by SOS Children, a global children’s charity that cares for abandoned and orphaned children. They are present in 45 African countries, where they have SOS villages, which are comminutes where these children grow up with the SOS family. In addition the organization makes efforts to show the continent in a positive light, to attract those who may be deceived my mainstream