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Imagine waking up on a cold winter day to find yourself on the streets with nothing but the clothing on your back. Your family had paid for your sibling to go to school but it had cost you your home, your possessions and every dollar your family had earned. You know that your family is going to starve and as a solution you beg for money and food on the streets. You’re alone in a cruel world and no one seems to care.
It is not a secret that the reason for poverty is the unequal distribution of wealth and increasing unemployment. Poverty is not a topic that many people like to discuss but it is a major problem that has increased in the last 5 years. Poverty is a topic, a worldwide issue that could lead to many other problems, arguments, and even wars. Poverty has needed an urgent solution for many years, and now the silent cry of help from those who are in poverty has grown, and those who can hear their cry should do all they can to help them. More than 1 billion people worldwide are living on less than one dollar a day, which is about 1 out of every 6 people worldwide, and for them health services and medicine are not available. If they get injured or seriously ill they cannot get help, and often die. Three million people living in America do not have enough money or food to meet their basic needs. They die of starvation and malnutrition, which is when your body does not get enough nutrition to help it function properly. Thirteen million children and 20 million adults live on the edge of hunger because they do not have the important resources that people in our society now need to basically survive.
One of those main resources is employment. Although they may have it, most of these people’s yearly incomes is below the poverty line. Many people have tried to find a solution to low-wages but none have seemed to actually work. My personal thought on low-wages is that the government should ensure that everyone over the age of 18 has a job that pays a yearly income that is over the poverty line. Thousands of children in Canada are out on the streets starving to death and all because their parents don’t have jobs, or at least a job that pays over the poverty line. It is ruining their futures, and the futures of their future children.
There are many factors that cause poverty and I truly wish I could cover them all but I am only going to discuss with you the most important one: education fees. In February, a girl from Uganda stated something that inspired me to do my article on Poverty. She wondered: why can people with brains but no money not go to school, while those with money, but no brain can? The fees for education are too expensive in many countries and many children are left with no education; if they do pay the fees, their families are left with little money for much else. I think that education fees should be lowered because if they aren’t, not only will children not have enough education to get good jobs, but their families will also suffer and maybe even starve if their financial problems are that deep.
Millions of people are miserable or dying because of poverty; if my article has touched you in some unexpected way, than there are many ways you can help them. There is one main organization that helps those less fortunate: the Salvation Army. You may have known Salvation Army as only a place to drop clothing that you no longer need, but did you know that all the clothing that is given to the Salvation Army is given to those who are poor? Everything that is donated to the Salvation Army goes to those who are in need, and clothing isn’t the only thing they give to those in need They give food, toys, money and all sorts of needed items to help those in need. Act now and you could once again put some hope and some sunshine in a child’s otherwise darkening world.
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