POVERTY
Poverty, according to the definition is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support or it is a condition of being poor. Poverty is an epidemic disease that is spreading not just in one country but is spreading globally. Everyone is fighting and working hard just to climb out of poverty. Everyday hundreds of people are struggling and dying because of this so called poverty. Especially the people in the poorest country, they don’t even have a clean drinking water. Knowing that drinking unclean water yields illness still they drink from it, they don’t have choice left because water is the most important needs of our body. People can survive for months even without food to eat, just water. However, if without water? I don’t think so.
The suffering of these people is so heart-breaking. Yet there is a plenty of clean water and food in the world for everyone. The problem is that famished people are trapped in severe scarcity. They don’t have the money to purchase enough food to feed their selves. Being continuously malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downhill continues until death comes to them and their families.
Poverty is the principal cause of hunger. Hunger is the number one cause of death in the world, killing more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. To stop hunger as well as to prevent the rapid growing number of deaths everyday because of hunger, we must first grant outsourcing solutions for this poverty. There are loads of factors affecting and causes the eternal poverty we struggling nowadays. First is the climate change. Climate change is increasingly viewed as a current and future cause of poverty and hunger. Increasing drought, flooding, and changing climatic patterns requiring a shift in crops and farming practices, example if your area is a place where you cannot even plant and grow some grass because of the very hot weather and the soil around your area has no nutrition or unfertilized, then you cannot plant crops for you to feed yourself and your family as well as there’s no clean water to drink. Economic system is also the cause of poverty and hunger in the country. Because of the downfall and depleting economy, a lot of companies went bankrupt that leads to the growing population of unemployed workers. The main underlying cause of eternal poverty and hunger is the usual operation of the economic and political systems in the world. Basically control over resources and income is based on military, political and economic power that typically ends up in the hands of a minority, who live well, while those at the bottom barely survive. Another cause of poverty is the rapid population growth. As the Philippines have financially limited resources and a high poverty rate, the rapid increase in population has become a problem because there is an insufficient resource to support the population, which leaves much fewer resources to improve the economy. Thus the poverty incidence increased as a result of its population growth rate.
The causes of poverty are diverse. War, disease, famine and unemployment being the big players that causes poverty. There are some stages can then be taken towards addressing the massive social issue of global poverty that has troubled humanity for centuries. First to consider is the employment generation. Cautiously and broadly planned employment programs funded by the government can stimulate growth in jobs. Industries requiring substantial labour forces can also be given significantly larger support from the government. Focus should be placed on developing companies that propose sustainable and long-term jobs to the community. Companies should also budget sufficiently for employee training and related community programs, so that employees and potential employees can keep their skills relevant and advance. After the employment generation, the government should focus on implementing various social institutions to fund poverty fighting programs and also they should provide transparency in the government so that the people will know where the taxes they pay go.
Another solution to global poverty is revoking the unattainable to repay world debts. Because many developing countries are trapped in the cycle of constantly repaying debts and this debts are impossible to reimburse. This guarantees that they never get a chance to develop and become independent. The priorities of these countries are therefore unnecessarily twisted and the citizens of these in-debt nations are devoid of any hope for a better future. Prioritizing programs that target fundamental human rights can also be a solution of poverty. Every individual should have access to housing, food, clean water, healthcare and electricity. Technically governments should only move on to other projects after they have made sure that programs that provide these basic amenities to their people are up and running. This might prove to be the hardest step yet.
Lastly the most important factor that affects poverty and also the best solution to get liberated from this outbreak is education. As much as poverty is a social condition it is also a mental and psychological cage. With education, impoverished populations are able to visualize their way out of poverty and are able to work towards it in an organised and reliable manner. Education provides preparation to tomorrow’s workforce and thus strengthens the economy against poverty.
As an individual, to stop this poverty in our nation, one must go to school no matter how hard and poor you are. There are lots of public schools who have lesser tuition fees and offer scholarship. If you finish college, there’s a big opportunity for you to be employed and received a good income that is enough for you to help and feed your family. Now, the nation is one less poor people because of you. Imagine all the people are like that, how wonderful and peaceful our nation will be. Education in rich populations about poverty raises sentiments of compassion and a sense of responsibility to the misfortunes of the rest of the world. Education also has the power to bring about social changes such as fights against racism and sexism, both conditions that happen to be linked basically with poverty. Soon enough, our determination and hard work will beat poverty.
