Nearly half the world’s population estimated about 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, and more than 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty earning less than $1.25 a day, including 1 billion children worldwide living in poverty, and according to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. More than 805 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat, and about 750 million people lack adequate access to clean drinking water. Illness such as diarrhea caused by inadequate drinking water, a lack of sanitation, and hand hygiene kills an estimated 842, 000 people every year globally. In 20122 165 million children under the age of 5 years old have a reduced rate of growth and development due to chronic malnutrition
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It seems to me that her main thesis for this book exemplifies, generally places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that even to help a neighbor is to rick the ability to feed your family, sometimes your own freedom, the idea of mutually supportive poor community demolished (p.254). Katherine investigate the lives of people who are affected by these components that depict the paths of the outcomes through events that were unforeseen. She talks about the unsanitary environment that cause a pessimistic outlook, and perception of how life exist. For instance, the airport uses the sewage-lake area as a dumpsite for waste which turns the clear water to black and reeking stagnate water that draws mosquitoes and malaria, and the sky darkens in a haze of pollution (p47). Moreover, because of the unsanitary conditions the inhabitants are forced to live, where illness and disease are widespread. For example, Sunil explains how he and his sister Sunita who had been bitten by rat from where sleep, contracted boils from the bits which erupted with worms (p.194). Children contract tuberculosis, and even their growth is underdeveloped from lack a healthy food, or they eat rats or frogs from sewage which is they only food available at
It seems to me that her main thesis for this book exemplifies, generally places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that even to help a neighbor is to rick the ability to feed your family, sometimes your own freedom, the idea of mutually supportive poor community demolished (p.254). Katherine investigate the lives of people who are affected by these components that depict the paths of the outcomes through events that were unforeseen. She talks about the unsanitary environment that cause a pessimistic outlook, and perception of how life exist. For instance, the airport uses the sewage-lake area as a dumpsite for waste which turns the clear water to black and reeking stagnate water that draws mosquitoes and malaria, and the sky darkens in a haze of pollution (p47). Moreover, because of the unsanitary conditions the inhabitants are forced to live, where illness and disease are widespread. For example, Sunil explains how he and his sister Sunita who had been bitten by rat from where sleep, contracted boils from the bits which erupted with worms (p.194). Children contract tuberculosis, and even their growth is underdeveloped from lack a healthy food, or they eat rats or frogs from sewage which is they only food available at