Poverty

Before i was reading up on the causes of poverty and the way the homeless are living and while some reasons and scenarios seem to be obvious, i was surprised with a lot that i've read. A lot of teenagers think just because they don't always get what they want or have to wait to get what they want, it's because they're "poor ". After reading about poverty it made me more and more aware of how lucky we are. Almost half the world ( over 3 billion people ) live day to day on less than $2.50 and at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. Around 21, 000 children die every day around the world, thats equivalent to 1 child dying every 4 seconds, 14 children dying every minute and 92 million children dying between the years of 2000 and 2010. Poverty's a silent killer but that shouldn't mean it should be ongoing without notice .



http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty