Monday, July 30, 2012

All about Poverty 3 by Mayumi


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

[4] Picture Retrieved July 23, 2012 from http://meditation.dmc.tv/peace/Core-Value-4-That-good-bad-actions-have-karmic-results.html  

1 comment:

  1. are u sure that no data means no or less poverty?
    it is hard to convince that only by looking the map.
    North Korea also shows as no data...

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