The people without power need the most help from the ones who want to help the least, the people with power. Necessity drives countries with poverty to find new ways to cure disease with less cost. The people with power are the people that have more money and control over the people in poverty. Powerful people can be helpful, however: in some places the people with the power, medicala companies, can withhold valuable supplies for the people who need it the most. In Mountains Beyond Mountains the author, Tracy Kidder, shows how the power of the medical companies controls the lives of people in an area with little money, this happens because the people who need the most medical attention are the ones who can not pay, but the payment is how the companies gain power.
Necessity causes people to do be thrity and find new ways to complete simple task. People in countries full of poverty have never had access to advanced medical care, therefore; these people know no other way then living with what they have. In The book Mountains beyond Mountains Kidder tells how Dr. Farm had to treat people in Haiti with the same disease as in American with less money, “Zanmi Lasante...spent between …show more content…
The only way to help powerless people is to get the people with the power to give some of that power up. The only way to get the to give up that power is to find a way to make the poor people’s problems affect them, as Kidder says in Mountains Beyond Mountains “We can scare the world, and if we do this project right, we can have a global impact” (143). To change the way the to get the world to help people in poverty is to make them think that the disease, and the untreated water of these people can affect their lives. People of power will not care about something until it affects them, so the way to help the people in Haiti is to make it seem as if these problems affect the people with