Poverty

Jason, Hellen, and Carlotta’s stories are one thing that when you read, you understand. You, and me, probably just started thinking that, “It’s only a few people, it’s not the whole world.” Even though that is only a slight amount of children in the world, listen to this: 600 million of the world’s children live in absolute poverty. Almost every year, 11 million children end up dying before they even turn five, if you think about it… That means almost 30,000 kids die each day! In SJK, there are 400 children, that’s it. If you compare that to 30,000, well, that’s it, you can’t.

 

Jason, Hellen, and even Carlotta are only a slight part of the group of children going through poverty. “One third of deaths are because of poverty,” 50,000 people die, which means, it more children then adults. Currently, while writing this, I am drinking chocolate milk, which might seem like nothing really important, but most people don’t even get to drink clean water. It’s a privilege for me to be drinking this. Just remember that next time you are something to drink, your lucky.

 

I truly wonder if rich people actually know what poor people are going through. They might say yes, but don’t you start thinking that, “Have they ever been poor?” Most likely, the answer will be no, which means, that they have to think, what if they were in their situation. Some people give them money, but that’s not always good. If they have money, they might spend it on drugs, because they think it will make them feel better. For this post, I’ve worked around this saying. Give them a fish, it will last a day, but teach them how to fish, and you’ve just saved their lives.