Everyday Reality

     It’s someone’s everyday reality. People are tortured and live in poverty, when all the states remain relatively silent. One billion people live in poverty. According to the diagram below, most live in developing countries particularly in rural areas of low income: Asia, Pacific Islands, Latin America, and Caribbean. This is due to on overall lack of income, resources and economic issues. Women shoulder much of the burden of poverty, and their children are often permanently disadvantaged recreating the cycle of poverty. Poverty is small word with wild meaning that requests solutions for the causes and effects that scar our lives.

     We fail to see the causes of our problem such as inequality denial of equal opportunity and access, natural disasters as earthquakes, flood, etc… People in their lives and humanity throughout its history have been trying. to achieve peace and comfort in different ways. Those who start a charity foundation to eradicate poverty, and those who start a war, both believe they are doing something that will ultimately lead to a better state. But either way, things only get worse. How many millions of dollars does a war take to kill innocent people? What would be if that money was used to save children that have nothing to eat for their breakfast? Countries are keeping silent and careless about the life they leave behind.

     The effects of living in poverty are numerous: hunger, malnutrition, limited of lack of education, increase risk of diseases due to lack of healthcare, homelessness, of inadequate housing, in safe environments, and social discrimination.

     This highlights the fact that millions of people live on less than
1-2$ per day, 15% of children in these countries do not survive their fifth birthday. 11 million babies die each year from preventable causes that were mentioned above.

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