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About Poverty
Poverty is about not having enough money to have basic needs that a normal person needs. “Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time." "In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a day trip with their schoolmates or to a birthday party; not being able to pay for medications for an illness. These are all costs of being poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can’t consider these other expenses. When people are excluded within a society, when they are not well educated and when they have a higher incidence of illness, there are negative consequences for society. We all pay the price for poverty. The increased cost on the health system, the justice system and other systems that provide supports to those living in poverty has an impact on our economy."
Many people in Africa are very poor, our job is to help them. They make very little money and are hungry, thirsty, tired and cold. Since 1990 the U.N has helped 1B people out of poverty. Now only 10%(700M) of the world is in extreme poverty.
- Kelvin
Many people have no access to clean, drinkable water(2.2B people), this is a big problem and we need to fix it. 97% of water on the earths surface is not drinkable. Water is the main thing we need to survive so we need to fix this problem. The U.N has said this "clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realisation of all human rights."- Kelvin
Guatemala is a poor county and many people in the country live in poverty, it's actually 60% and thats most, they make about 5 dollars a day.
There are many people that lack proper heath care. for example 48% of people in Africa don't have health care.
-Kelvin
Poverty is very bad for many reasons. This picture shows an example of how extreme poverty is in Guatemala. The dangers of poverty are critical in other countries too.
-Kelvin