World Poverty

By definition, poverty means the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount and also the state of being extremely poor. A man who is suffering from poverty is one who does not have command over the basic needs of life like enough food, clothing, drinking water and shelter on the material level. On the non material level a poor man is deprived of basic social needs like health and education.

Do you know how many people die everyday from poverty? About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. Yet as we could often see it in our daily surrounding there are so many food for everyone everywhere. The main problem of the people who are suffering from poverty is that they are trapped in severe property. They lack of money to buy enough food to nourish themselves and due to this, they get weak and often sick. What leads to this is they are unable to work, therefore becoming more poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

When we mention about poverty, often do we think that the people who are suffering from this are living in hunger problem. What we do not see is that there are other causes of poverty, diseases such as AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis and malaria, are also causes of poverty. People die from these diseases due to their lack of nutrient intakes and also living in an unhealthy environment which makes the diseases spread rapidly among them. For example in Africa, million of parents have died leaving their children as orphans. Teachers often have died as well leaving the schools empty. Also the doctors and nurses, leaving hospitals and medical clinics with nothing. Not to forget the farmers who have died, leaving crops in the fields. All these have left the villages in a devastating condition.

Many organizations around the world have worked together in solving this problem yet it is still happening. Poverty could also be caused from the economic status of the country. Often poverty occurs in a country which is poor and also, overpopulated. There are also countries that is well developed yet poverty still occurs. New Zealand is an example, it is a high human developed country, but there are still people within the country who are relatively poor, compared with richer people in the country. These relatively poor people are not living in absolute poverty but can be considered poor and are therefore living in 'relative poverty'.

Poverty is one of the major problem that is happening around the world yet people seem to be ignorant towards this world crisis. Yet we are still complaining about all the things we cannot have. We should be more than thankful for we have been raised in a well developed country, parents who are always working hard for us to grow up in a healthy condition and surrounding. Does it ever cross your mind about what if one day all the wealth that we are enjoying would be taken away?