Poverty is a really strong issue at this time, at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. The causes are a lot, including lack of responsibility of each person, bad government policy, some combination of these and other factors. The silent killer is poverty, because that what it is, a killer. Poor people are more often to have diseases and illnesses, hunger, they live in very very bad and dangerous conditions; around 21,000 children die every day around the world.
Poverty is link with education, we keep asking why our country (any) doesn’t grow, well there are a lot of people in the world that don’t have access to education. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. A very sad fact I that Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen. Government in every country should do something for that people, at least try to make people aware.
Hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty, probably the worst. We get out of home, go to school or work, come back to home and we have food on our table. But what would happen if one day you come back to home and there’s nothing in your plate, that happens exactly the same the next day, and the next one. The gap between rich and poor people is huge, that’s why we cant think about that, that’s why sometimes we act so selfish and conceited.
It’s impossible to stop poverty all over the world, because it’s not that simple, but all can make some differences and stop being so selfish and stop pretending we don’t know about all those people. Make some donations to centers when they provide, food, water, clothes to the people who need it. If you have something you don’t use anymore of cloth that doesn’t fit you, don’t throw it to the garbage, give it to one person you see who really need it.
