POVERTY

This paper was interesting to write. I love to research new things and learn about them in depth. Through this reasearch paper i learned to conduct an interveiw and put it into a paragraph correctly and learned more about the issue of poverty.

POVERTY

According to the UNICEF, nearly 30,000 children die daily from poverty. The UN Millennium Project states that an estimated of 1.2 billion people struggle to live on less than a dollar a day, and a total of 2.7 billion people live on less than two dollars a day. World poverty is becoming a growing problem and in turn pulling more and more people into it. I have had the pleasure to study the cause and effect of poverty, read specific information on the topic from an article, and interview several different people finding their outlook and knowledge on this issue of poverty.
There are numerous causes to world poverty that affects the issue, making it grow. In many poor countries there is the issue of a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The underprivileged people have no power against their rich government. The government corrupts these people, by making them afraid to speak up to tell their leaders what they believe in. The government creates unfair issues, making them into laws, which people cannot overpower. Also, during political debates, the people are shut out, another way of pushing the poor people out. Inequality is growing in countries as well between the rich and poor. The people cannot access better health care, resulting in many deaths. 26,500 children die every year, or one child death every three seconds. Children are not getting the vaccines they need, resulting in the spread of disease through communities. Parents are also dying quickly because they do not have the medicine to be cured, leaving many children orphaned and having to fend for themselves. In addition to issue of lack of health care, children are not being exposed to school. Without the knowledge from school these kids will not learn to read and write or learn other languages. Children will not be able to read new policies made up by the government, so if they ever do get the chance to rebel they will not be able to.
The BBC News released a recent article called, “World Poverty ‘more widespread’ ”, by Steve Schifferes. This article states in detail about how the World Bank believes poverty is greater than believed before, the regional differences, and the goals that may happen to these countries. “The new estimates suggest that poverty is both persistent, and has fallen less sharply, than previously thought” stated by Steve Schifferes. In this article new numbers have appeared. They are now saying that sense 1981 the number of poverty stricken families has grown from 1.5 billion to now 1.9 billion people. They have also stated that Africa is the least successful region of all the poverty regions around the world. The number of people hit by poverty as doubled in Africa sense 1981. In south Asia poverty has dropped from being at 60% to 40%. However, the biggest drop in these countries is china, with a huge drop from 85% to 15.9%. It seems more countries that improve, others collapse even more. It is believed that 100 million more people may be forced into poverty because of the rising food cost throughout the world.
I had the pleasure of conducting many interviews to find the knowledge and opinion on the issue of poverty. My first question asked is: “What do you think are some reasons global poverty exists at such a high and dangerous rate?” Kelsi Full states, “There are a lot of third world countries who have not caught up on technology, and the governments do not have the money to. The government can afford to pay people for more jobs, and many families don’t have the time for school because they need every hand to work farms.” Norma Kenley stated, “I don’t understand why these countries are poor and why others aren’t.” Robert Kenley stated, “Lack of Foreign Government responsibility.” My second question I asked my interviewees is: “Do you feel our country is doing enough to help lesson poverty worldwide?” Kelsi Full answered, “Because our country is in a economic crisis we can only do what we can to help, which is not much.” Norma Kenley answered, “No, because our country wastes so much money on unnecessary research, like which gender enjoys strawberries more.” Robert Kenley answered, “Yes, we give enough money.” My third question I asked is: “If you had no other choice do you think you can survive on $10.00 a day.” All three interviewees answered, “No, because everything costs too much.” The fourth question I asked was: “What do you think you could do to help?” Kelsi answered, “Give to more charities like Christians Children’s Fund.” Norma replied, “Give to more charities, but it is hard to trust them because of the high risk of scams.” Robert answered,” We need to take care of own country right now.” My fifth and final question was a follows: “If you had the chance to go to another country for one year and teach them, and help them get people more jobs or better ones, would you?” Kelsi and Robert both answered, “Yes.” And Norma Kenley answered, “I don’t know because I don’t think I could leave my family.
Poverty seems to be increasing worldwide. However, there are different opinions about what should take place for these problems to decrease, and how to help. As stated, some people think we should only focus on our own country, others think we should do all we can to help others survive. The statics are rising each year. More people are falling into poverty. More children are dying each day or others are being orphaned. “The new figures confirm that Africa has been the least successful region of the world in reducing poverty,” stated By Steve Schifferes. Is poverty only happening mainly in one country? People need to be taught more about poverty so we can all pitch in and help others.



Schifferes, Steve. BBCnews. “World Poverty ‘more widespread’” August 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7583719.stm