All about
Poverty No.3
Did
you all see the cause of poverty to the children in the world?
I
am concentrating on the issue of poverty in Asia because I myself came from an Asian
country. As we all know not all Asian
countries suffer from poverty, but there are a lot of countries that also
suffers from it. According to the web Japan, Korea is not experiencing poverty
unlike Cambodia, Bangladesh, India and many more.[1] Now, let us see how the
poverty is really a big problem for our future. Japan cannot be seen as one of
the countries suffering from poverty or hunger as we see in the map. I feel
that the people living in that country are lucky but sometimes selfish to act
as if we do not to care with other countries that suffer from poverty.
You can see in
the map which country is in the condition of poverty or in the state of
poverty. Japan has no data much about poverty. I think it is because the way
they took care of their people. They have the rule that makes their people well
balanced. How? Well, by having the”義務教育” read as “gimu kyou-iku” or in English “Compulsory Education” it is a rule
that all children must finish their schooling until junior high school. [3]
Many countries adapt this kind of organization and it could be the way to escape
from poverty. France, Finland, Germany and many more as we can see most of the
countries are developed country. Most country who is developing countries
mostly suffers in poverty lack of food, clean water, daily necessities and
medicines. There are many children, innocent man woman suffer from hunger. As
you can read repeatedly do you recognize how lucky you are? See this picture
The child is eating the food from the ground his mother died from hunger
and that he do not have anything to eat. Can you believe a child is also doing
the things he could do just to live? We should look at ourselves that we have
more as we have. We have our parents who support us. We could eat, drink clean
water and of course have a shelter and warm family to rely on. See the child
holding up the food without worrying whether the food is clean or not. While we
are here in Japan, there is many food e.g. leftovers being thrown each day or
even whole year.
Reflecting back here in Japan I did not think imagine
eating a food from the trash or from the street grounds. We usually eat our
food in our tables at home from a plate. We must think an idea to reduce the
suffering of these young children who are wishing for a warm and kind hand to
rely on. The way to solve this is still hard to do as the economy of each
country changes and the people who are responsible for the help is difficult
because handling their own family is difficult to. Life differs in each part in
the world. We see each part of the world in different aspects. We may be
enjoying at this time while we are eating and other is suffering in hunger
dying for thirst and suffers from the heavy illness that can’t be cured
[1] World Poverty,
a look at
causes and solutions: Poverty in Asia, caste
and progress. Retrieve July 18, 2012 from http://world-poverty.org/povertyinasia.htm
[2] Retrieve July 19, 2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Percent_poverty_world_map.pngb
[3] See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education
[4] Picture Retrieved July 23, 2012 from http://meditation.dmc.tv/peace/Core-Value-4-That-good-bad-actions-have-karmic-results.html
are u sure that no data means no or less poverty?
ReplyDeleteit is hard to convince that only by looking the map.
North Korea also shows as no data...