Poverty reduction

Developing counties have many problems in common like food, water, education, health, housing and work. This is what often developing countries in part or in total lack to have and that’s what push away developing countries for being developed. Food is a basic need which help people grow. Drinking clean and safe water is essential of life because 80% diseases like diarrhea come from drinking dirty water. Education is another basic need for developing counties in process of grow because if there…

Starvation portrayed a pivotal role in the rage of the 18th century French peasants in the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. A lack of leadership and a poor economy can spark a distrust for any countries leaders, but when entire families are being eradicated by a serious aliment hatred will be felt. Starvation is a serious issue that can lead to various physical and psycho-social issues that can amplify feelings of rage. By the summer of 1789 France was in a grave financial…

Homeless service programs, some the first of their kind, are operating in Title V properties in 30 states plus the District of Columbia” (National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, 2013). These statistics show that acts such as this one are proving beneficial in aiding the problem of homelessness, yet it is still such a large issue to this day. Researchers discuss in this report that a portion of that is due to the federal…

Poverty is essentially an aspect of social class inequality, families with children, lone parents, disabled individuals, some ethnic minorities and people who do not work. Absolute poverty is poverty defined as lacking the minimum requirements necessary to maintain human health and life for example, food, water and shelter. In addition, relative poverty is poverty defined in relation to a generally accepted standard of living in a…

country to faces increased levels of food insecurity. The author asserts that the food insecurity existed in southern Ethiopia because the areas did not receive adequate rainfall for viable agricultural production. He states that due to significant reduction of rainfall on October- December, it leads the country to extremely high food prices. I found this article to be very accurate and effective to the issues Ethiopia is dealing with, as the same time its relevant to my topic. the strength that…

The book Enough: Why The World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman discusses the causes and solutions to hunger in Africa. The book starts out with the story of Norman Borlaug, a plant pathologist, who was working to create a rust-resistant plant. He eventually created seeds that were very successful in Asia, helping to lift people out of starvation. Because of this, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. However, Borlaug’s seeds did not make it to Africa, where many…

Have you ever thought about what it’s like to not have food or what it’s like to be hungry? We may think that most of us do not have to worry about being hungry every day, but in reality there are billions of people who are hungry. It is sad to think about all of those people who don’t make it through the night because of hunger. Some don’t have the energy to talk nor walk. What does hunger really mean? Hunger is a term which has four meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary (1971).…

school. For example, they will do homework, play, and have meals on their own. According to “Working Families and Growing Kids” of Smolensky, Eugene and other authors show the reader that “Self-care is less common among families below or near the poverty line, and it becomes more common as hours of parental employment increase”. And the unsupervised conditions may be conductive to loneliness and boredom, as well as to engage in health- compromising behaviors. Another problem of children in…

resources do affect achievement. With that, the poor student bodies may not be able to go to a college and achieve higher degrees. There will always be an education gap between the rich and the poor, and the poor will be unable to break free from poverty. The rich student bodies have more money so they are able to go to a nicer public or private schools and have the means to eat more nutritionally to help in their concentration in class. That is why the physical condition of the rich is better.…

Poverty has become an ambiguous term. What does it mean to be poor? According to Dictionary.com, poverty is defined as “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support” (“Poverty”). Expanding upon the dictionary definition, poverty is to lack a certain amount of material possession, such as food, clothes, shelter, education, and healthcare. However, the focus has moved beyond traditional measures. Now it involves many dimensions. Poverty is hunger. Poverty is…