The conditions in Poverty (No.6)

Mayumi

          Today I am looking on the conditions that people faced because of poverty.

         We see on dramas that being rich is unhappy and being in the condition of poor is happier. I thought that is it really true? Many questions come to my mind. Well, it is hard to think about it unless we experience to be so. As I said about the children doing their best, doing works at young age. Do you think poverty life starts because people are born poor? Is that the reason why children need to work? Maybe the answer is yes and some no. Yes in a way from what I see there are some parents rely on their children to save them from the situation poverty. No, in the way that even though parents are in the poor state they tried to borrow money and tries anything just to lead their children to schools.

          Letting children to education is one way to have development (Jo,2012)[1]. There will be improvement in a way that they could have the opportunity to choose their dream and to have those dreams come true. Being poor make us stronger to do our best to carry on for a better life. In contrast they also make us feel miserable in a way that they can’t carry on the situation of being poor which leads to no progress. The importance of education is to learn how to write and read (Hariss, 1999)[2]. Learning these elements will make the children do the daily needs to the social world.  We may not think about it yet but we can think about it as we grow older. For those children who are not lucky to have a parent to send those to school are people who experience poverty in later life. This kind of condition is hard to solve that even if they want to avoid the state of poverty because they do not have the chance to.

         People facing poverty for some reasons is losing a job that leads to lack of money of what they need for themselves and for their family. Having no jobs makes us think what are we going to have for our living? The suffering of lack of daily necessities for their livings is lying on whether they can afford it or not (Hariss, 1999)[3]. Many people want to find job for better life but it is hard because there is less compensation on the jobs available for they don’t have the education needed for the job with good salary. Still the problem of poverty just goes by cycle as we face this problem if we are not eager to do our best. We should have some solutions about this and make improvements to the people who are experiencing poverty.

         As I said education is needed but how can we afford the expenses for education when we are at the state of poverty. The government of the country should make action and we need their help to solve it as soon as possible. We still have to know what really poverty means to us and why they really occur I will tell more as I could to find those answers.

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[1]Jo, B. & Bourdillon, M. (2012). Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Oxford University.

[2]Hariss, M. and Hatano, G., (1999). Learning how to read and write.CambridgeUniversity.

[3]Ibid.