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"Poorer people get HIV and become poorer. Dealing with poverty will help us deal with HIV/Aids and dealing with HIV/Aids will also help us to deal with the problem of poverty".
Christopher Chabu Kangale, from Christian Aid's partner, Copperbelt Health Education Project, Kitwe, Zambia.
Others have made their own speeches in this vein. Just talking about making poverty history is not enough. The leaders and the led all need to work hand in hand to truly make poverty history. This won’t be achieved if it is left to just a group of people.
First a look at what the leaders should do. There should be carefully thought out, conscious and well-articulated economic policies. These policies should not just be lip services, but polices formulated with accurate data. They should not be fictitious or lies but truths, which will be implemented to the fullest. Some leaders formulate polices that are not attainable. They make endless promises so as to make the people feel they have great visions. On the contrary, simple realizable goals that will help improve the standard of living of the people should be formulated and fully implemented.
Corruption has eaten up the conscience of some of our leaders greatly, and the led as well. It is more like a culture now. Everyone does what he wants without being checked. Contracts are inflated; some abandoned; public treasuries looted; and vandalization of public utilities is commited, amongst other things. If we decide to digress to the different shapes corruption takes in my country, we will go home and come back to still meet it being discussed.
Nigeria ranks 4th in the measurement of the most corrupt nations in the world - this says it all. But if this is highly checked, it then means that bribery will be reduced, resources disbursed, and public funds will be efficiently and effectively utilized for the betterment of all. Health they say is wealth. We cannot be talking about making poverty history without mentioning health. The government should improve health care services that will embrace free medical care and health awareness amongst other things.
With health awareness, the people will be sensitized on things to do to avoid some illnesses (e.g.) HIV/Aids, which would drain their pockets. They will be exposed to different family planning techniques in order to help them bear only the number of children they can cater for: ‘‘Average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is now 47 years. Without poverty (HIV/Aids) it would be 62 years.'’
Statistics from UNAIDS, 2002.
Imagine what the fate of hundreds of thousand of children who roam the streets without a home or even a name, hopeless you would say, is. But hope could be restored to them, and to so many others in similar conditions who have been ravaged and torn apart by poverty. Welfare programmers should be introduced in order to cater for their needs, educate them, feed them, re-orientate them and make them self reliant. With this, most of them are sure to escape from poverty.
Most importantly, the government should detract from receiving international loans and grants with cruel conditionality. Most countries of the world take undue advantage of the less privileged ones. Some conditionality includes retrenchment of workers and privatization of public utilities. This does nothing but make the people poorer and continually dependent. The government should look for more effective ways of harnessing the labour of the people, as well as resources in order to make the people and the country independent as well.
The people on their own have a role to play. Looking at all ethnicity, egocentrism and religious intolerance has done to the country as a whole, no one in his right senses would be thinking of encouraging it. All these have led to politics of bitterness, rioting and general civil unrest. All these do nothing but impound and afflict poverty on people. This is because when things like these happen, business is brought to a halt, property is burnt, and people are killed- most of the times they are breadwinners; many are disabled and displaced. This will only make the problem of poverty worse. More importantly, people should have a balanced view of their religions and not be fanatic about it. Every one should see his/her neighbors as his/her brother or sister.
While efforts are being made by the government and people to free themselves from the bondage of poverty, some have come to see it as a way of life. Some have accepted poverty and now see it to be a normal thing in their lineage. They see it as God's will that they remain poor: they see it to be nature, and that nothing can be done about it. These people need to be reoriented. They need to be convinced that poverty is not meant for anyone, and so they should not claim it. If poverty is to become history, it has to start from the minds of the people. When one is positive in his thinking, he tries to make things around him positive.
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Jude C Munaonye
Jude C Munoanye, Coordinator.
Living Hope Organization.
c/o Room 34/36 Ministry of Health, P M B 7215 Umuahia, Abia State.
Nigeria.
E-mail: livhorg@yahoo.com
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