Poverty

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

According to James Chen – Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. Poverty means that the income level from employment is so low that basic human needs can’t be met. Poverty-stricken people and families might go without proper housing, clean water, healthy food, and medical attention. Each nation may have its own threshold that determines how many of its people are living in poverty.

BBC

According to the World poverty clock, As of today, around 705,129,435 people in the world are living Extreme poverty. As per the last research (2015) of World bank 10 percent of the world’s population or 734 million people living on less than $1.90 a day. 

Main causes of poverty are –

1. Inadequate access to clean water and nutritious food

2. Poor education.

3. Ineffective government.

4. Inequality and marginalization. MARGINALIZATION.

5.  Poor health care system

6. Lack of basic facilities such as Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.

As per the press release of World Bank ,Sept. 19, 2018 Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues but the rate has now slowed.

Fewer people are living in extreme poverty around the world, but the decline in poverty rates has slowed, raising concerns about achieving the goal of ending poverty by 2030 and pointing to the need for increased pro-poor investment – World Bank

WHO – Poverty creates ill-health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick, without decent shelter, clean water or adequate sanitation.

A child under 15yrs dies every 5 seconds around the world due to poverty, and around 6.3 million children who are under 15 years of age died in 2017, UNICEF (the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group.) And out of those 6.3 million children, 50% belong to sub-Saharan Africa and 30% belong to Southern Asia.

“Without urgent action, 56 million children under 5 will die from now until 2030 – half of them newborns,” – Laurence Chandy, UNICEF Director of Data, Research and Policy.

HOW CAN WE STOP POVERTY?

1. Create Awareness

2. Donate

3. Vote for the government who will invest in poor people.

4. Job creation

5. Educate Everyone

6. Raise the minimum wage

7. Provide paid leave and

8. Paid sick day for the daily wage earners.

9. Invest in high-quality childcare and early.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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