About Poverty part 1 by Mayumi

We read about Area studies to know the way people how they do their studies on language, culture, customs and more. During the War and conflicts just to colonize the country. After that war Area Studies research of Russia, European countries and America about Southeast Asia led to many studies in language, culture, and strategy of adapting new knowledge. But still it is difficult to explain how or when it had started.

Now I am talking about poverty is one of the biggest problems in world today and we have to make actions. Poverty is a state of being poor who can't afford their shelter, food and even clean water. As the economy goes up and down the gap between rich and poor also goes bigger and bigger. It is common to us to have poverty because many people work hard just to move on from that situation. Many people die hour, minute and second because of hunger, thirst and sickness because of no doctors to go to or they do not have enough money to pay. For more than a decade now issues of poverty, deprivation and social exclusion have commanded much attention from researchers and policymakers in the EU countries.

The reason of poverty situation and factors are because of lack in education, people who could not go to school because they could not afford for the tuition fees. People who are unluckily born in the situation that they cannot afford the necessities to have their needs. The overpopulation in the country that could cause poverty it is because they can't afford the things they want to supply for their family. This problems could be find in anywhere in the world for example people suffering from the disasters, in their own country like some countries in the Southeast Asia there are lots of natural disasters like flood, typhoon that destroy their crops and earthquakes that causes a lot of refugees.

The solution to solve poverty is first, to introduce scholarships for people who want to learn that they would do their best to have the improvement to change the trend of knowledge to improve the suffering from poverty. They could follow the way Japan for example they have the rule that children should go to school until Junior High School with this children do not need to work with their young age.

Second is giving job opportunities for those people with proper benefits and fair treatments. People who do not have job usually suffer because they do not have the money to supply food or necessities for his family and erasing the inequality of income. This factors are may also lead to poverty. The gender inequality is still a big problem people who are man or woman differs in income that may also lead to the gap of rich and poor. Single mother also suffer in this situation they cannot afford the tuition fees of their children.

Finally, banks can help reduce poverty by having a project in which they lend to poor people money and let them return it with a low interest. Many people suffer from debts that lead them to poverty because of the big interests that banks add when poor people making loans. The economy in each country goes high and low that is why we also need banks to support poor people. We could also follow the way in Area studies by the way of America do to help the people in Southeast Asia by getting the scholar in each country it helps the people in the Southeast Asia to find job.

I am interested about poverty because I hope that one day the gap between rich and poor will be stable. We need to solve the primary factors that may lead to poverty include overpopulation, the unequal distribution of resources in the world economy, inability to meet high standards of living and costs of living, inadequate education and employment opportunities, environmental degradation, certain economic and demographic trends, and welfare incentives. These will also affect us in the near future without knowing that we are already down to debts and we may also suffer from hunger or we may meet some disasters.

I believe that someday we can decrease the number of people who are suffering from hunger by making some scholarships, finding jobs for people who do not have and to persuade the people for more equality in gender, race and religion. We must solve the problem to show that we care not just for ourselves but also for others. We can solve the problem by discussing and knowing more about our own environment just like studying first at the Southeast Asian countries who are one of suffering from poverty.