Nearly 1/2 of the world's population live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty less than $1.25 a day. 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. Do you hear these facts! Like seriously, $1.25, you can only buy a can of pop with that. Imagine trying to split that between your families to get a whole day’s meal worth. There is no way my family and I could survive in those circumstances. That is why all those kids are dying. 22,000 kids dying a day, which are about 7.6 million children dying every year. Some of those kids are dying right beside us. You might not know this but Toronto has the highest child poverty rate in Canada. People around you right now might even be experiencing poverty. We got to stop this before poverty affects more people like friends, neighbors or even your own families.
80% of the world lives of 10 dollars a day. That also means that 4/5 of the world live is in poverty and 4/5 of the kids of the future will be born in poverty. Most kids won’t even have a good family life. Even worse is that the kids who are born into extreme cases of poverty will like most kids not live over the age of five. This isn't fair at all; average kids have a life expectancy of seventy or over while kids in extreme poverty will have an average life expectancy of less than five. We could be in there situation. Actually it is more likely to be in poverty than not to be because it is
I actually lived in a neighborhood where there was a fair amount of poverty. One day, one of my friends who experience poverty told me about his life. He described a situation he was once in. He told the thoughts that were going in his mind at the time. His thoughts were ‘I'm Hungry. I'm hungry. There isn't anything left in the cupboard. My cell phone has been disconnected. I've run out of quarters. The internet I'm using is the neighbor's. I still have power. Not for longer. I'm hungry and I feel weak. For a while it was okay. I was too...’ I was shocked about his revelation. He told me this is how he felt most of time in his life. I feel the need to help people in his situation. I just hope that with proper help, he or anyone will not feel like that.
Imagine if you feel asleep hungry, woke up and couldn't still eat a meal. Imagine if you couldn't get an education while the other kids around you can go to school. How would you feel if this was happening to you? I can’t even comprehend how people can even stand living like this but they are living against it. They are experiencing the horrendous thing called poverty. They are trying to make the best out of their situation and we can’t even help them. We should give these kids an education, money and freedom from poverty. If we used less than one percent of what the world uses for weapons, we could put every kid in school in 2001. The world still doesn't do this because they don’t think it affect them and their lives
I don’t understand why people just ignore this tragedy. Poverty doesn't affect only the poor it affects us. If this cycle continues than the world is just in store for more tragedy. Most kids our age don’t get a childhood or even a life after the age of five. They just die and don’t even get mentioned while the world gets hung-over by gossip about celebrities. We don’t even report the kids dying all over the world in the news. We should show empathy to these kids and act to make poverty history. As once Nelson Mandela said “While poverty persists, there is no true freedom”.
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