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What is poverty?

Poverty is hunger and not knowing where your next meal is coming from, because you have already eaten the seeds you had stored for next year's planting.
Poverty is not having a roof over your head and having nowhere to go.
Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor.
It is the death of a child from a preventable illness because you are unable to pay for medicine or clean water.6+
Poverty is not being able to read and not being able to go to a school.
Poverty is being unemployed and having little chance of getting a job even if there are any because you have no training.
Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom with no hope of change.
Poverty is living one day at a time. Poverty is not being able to bury your dead.



I'm ashamed of myself, ashamed of how much we all complain.
We come out of the shopping centre kicking and screaming, all because our parent's wouldn't buy us what it is we wanted!
When really, we have nothing to be kicking and screaming over.
We go home to a roof over our heads, clean water running from every tap, running over our bodies, while poor ill kids are left to die because they have NO! water.
Why are we all so selfish?

Over Eighteen million people a year, fifty thousand people per day die due to poverty.
Twelve million children die before their fifth birthday.
Eight hundred million people go to bed hungry, every night.
Two hundred and eighteen children between the ages five - seven are a victim to child labour.
Eight hundred and fourty million people are illiterate.
Three billion people live on less than $2 a day.



Next time you think you have it tough, look up poverty on wikipedia. It's changed my view on the world within an hour!