Image from the Imaginative Conservative
In rural Africa, while her brothers are working on the fields, earning money. She walks miles to a dirty drinking hole because her village can't afford to build a well. All her siblings have never even thought about school, whenever she mentions it, her parents would only shun her away and say they can't afford it. In urban China, he lives in an apartment by himself, cooking instant noodles for food every day, because his parents are working in the city factories, trying to earn money to support his education and future. In Greece, her family is settling into a refugee camp with their meager bags of belongings after they escaped from their home out of poverty and no money to afford a better future. Why all these terrible things? The answer is a simple word, yet meaning so much to those that have been through it: POVERTY.
Homelessness
As of 2005, 100 million people were homeless worldwide, and 1.6 billion people lacking adequate housing- roughly a seventh of the global population. WHY? Because of poverty, because they don't have enough money afford better housing. In a money based society like today's, money can buy a new life, but without it, you fight for survival, every day, you don't know when, what, where you'll eat, where you'll live, and how you'll survive it.
Basic Survival
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Water. Food. Shelter. Many of us take these needs for granted. But one in 9 people don't have access to the basic needs to have a healthy life. In many developing countries, money can pay for food, water, and housing, but still in those countries, much of the population is in poverty, with no access to basic needs. Yet in many of those same countries, a loaf of bread costs the same as the change you probably have lying around in you house- and people still cannot afford much more than that.
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Education
70 million children in the world live without an education. In places, they have been banned, but in many other countries, people can't pay for an education. They can't pay for books, schools, and uniforms, or they'd rather have their children work for the family trade then have them go to an "expensive" school. But, when you educate a child, you can educate an entire family. For many of these impoverished families, they're faced with a tough decision: Send the kids to school for a better future, but have to work harder to pay for school; or have the kids work, earn money, but stay like this for the rest of their lives, with no hope to climb up the social ladder. Unfortunately, most have no choice but to have the children be uneducated in order to put enough food on the table.