Sunday, October 28, 2012

Children in Poverty (No.4)


“Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions”.[1]

 What is the matter even your poor? Poverty for me is hard to think. We may think of that it is all about money. What is the reason that we see poverty the thing I am going to introduce?

 For me poverty makes people suffer from hunger, thirst, illness because there are no hospitals to go or no money to pay for the medical fees. Children experiencing poverty are people who also longs and would want to have education like children who goes to school. Now I am going to tackle mainly on children who are suffering from poverty and show some pictures of them.


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Look at these two children. Do you think they want to live this way? These two children living and sleeping on the street are called "street children". According to the news the number of street children increases globally.[3] Street children works hard to get some money for their family, they do rags, pickers, beg from people on the street, children who works underage etc., While the latter include children who loiter in the street, many of whom later become anti socials, juvenile delinquents, drug peddlers and pick pockets.[4] Do you think it is good for children to do these things? Children working without education are one of the many reasons that cause poverty. The reasons are when they get less or no education it will be very difficult for them to find job that offers good salary, with that how will they be able to support themselves as well their families? Poverty is one factor that may trigger these people to do bad things like stealing because they don't have money to buy food or to get the things they needed. Street children are increasing globally which simply means that there are more children suffering from hunger, these results to children who are dying from it.[5]The number of children who suffer from hunger and poverty these days is increasing every hour, every minute and even every second.    


Can't you see it is horrible to know that many people are now having a great time without any worries while there are millions of children who are dying to eat a piece of bread for their hungry stomach. Maybe we should realize how lucky we are and be thankful for everything we have and share if we can to those children suffering from hunger in the countries part in the Southeast Asia, Africa and other part of the world suffering from poverty.

 As we live today in the world without balance. We may think on a way to solve this problem. “In particular we can see many aspects of poverty”[6] we have to see those things and make actions. It is because poverty is anywhere in the part of the world. I want to learn more about it and try my best to introduce it to you all well. Thank you.

By Mayumi







[1]   (Unknown). Poverty. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/473136/poverty. [Last Accessed 20 October 28].


[2]     Street Children. May 28, 2010. Retrieved from: http://childrenaregift.blogspot.jp/2010/05/street-children.html. October 20, 2012. 


[3]                 Ibid.


[4]                 Ibid.


[5]             See more at this site   http://www.poverty.com/ . Retrieved on October 22, 2012



[6] Ruth Lister, (2004). Poverty. UK: Polity press.

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