The Extreme Situation we are living Today!

We are living in an extreme situation now at days; we are recently having incidents that are killing a lot of human population because of only one reason that provokes all this that is: POVERTY!

When we are talking about populations we can name then in two ways: a developed population or an industrialized nation. I’m going to talk you about the developed population. This kind of nation is developed, organized and has a great and strong economy but the thing right here is that a significant percentage (almost the majority) of the population is struggling to survive.

Now I’m going to describe some statistics that experts made in order to get an estimation of the people that is presenting this situation. At a poverty line of $1.25 per day, the revised estimates find:

a) a) 1.4 billion of people living in the poverty line or below

b) b) This is more than the previous estimate this means that the economy raises but only for the people in the middle-upper class and the upper class.

Poverty is advancing even more every time. All this big problem is originating other problems for the population that don't have the enough money to buy even a piece of bread. We are in danger, many people is presenting diseases that are spreading, many people is dying because of starvation or infections. Our world is developing, YES, but we are leaving apart our natural resources, the damaged people. Now at days we can see that the world is having extreme disasters because of the global warming and all the contamination we are producing. And it seems as if disasters are touching the poorest countries of the world. We need to change our way of governing and managing our economy because only a few of people is getting the benefits but the rest of the population is starving and dying on the streets. We create this, but we are destroying our world.

792 thousand sonorans live in poverty

On March 20th of this year there was an article in the paper entitled 792 thousand sonorans live in poverty. 340 thousand people live in extreme poverty in Sonora, and in total 792 thousand live in poverty, and they are located primarily in the south of the state. This article said that the government was going to try to take out of extreme poverty the 43% of the population that lives in it. For this only 1% of the state budget is given, which according to the majors of Cajeme and Navojoa is insufficient, but still helpful. Also, the government will give concrete floors to the 65 thousand homes that don't have one, according to Javier Neblina Vega (Sedesson). This goal is set to be achieved in the next 2 years. I think this is an extremely difficult task, and even more when there isn't enough money, but at least the government is trying to do something about.

POVERTY

I will love to share with you how does the word Poverty is one of the most common during this and the past decades. My question is; Why are we living such a poverty, if we are getting more technology and machinery, why can't we make our standar of life higher that the actual .

Don't you imagine that lots of people right now they are standing out there in the wind, in the sand or in the floor of cement really cold. They are sleeping on the street using newspapers to protect form the weather; how many people is living in carton houses; how many people is having their babies without medical services, how may people is wishing to eat only a piecer of bread. Well, I can continue all day long telling what does poor people do in order to survive, but this is not my point during this post. So, let me better tell you about what are the causes of poverty.

1) Almost half of the world population live on less than $2.50 per day.

2) The GDP of 41 heavily Indebted poor countries is less than the wealth of the world's 7 richest people.

3) Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

4) Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

5) 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).

"Poverty is the majority of the world's people and nations. "

Hunger and Poverty

Hunger is everywhere we look, in Africa and even here in our city. Hunger exists because of poverty and poverty exist because of the economic crisis. Hungers principal cause is as I said poverty, many people are dying of hunger because they do not have enough money to pay for water and basic foods. If they have a little bit of money what they do is get the cheapest type of food they can find and buy as much as they can so they can survive a few more days.

Many of the foods that these people can buy actually affect more their health than help it. Because to have good health we have to eat a variety of foods, if we eat to much of one food depending of what it is, we can gaing weight or have some other health problems that can make us end up in hospitals. But these people cannot even affor to buy food, how are they going to afford a hospital if they need it? Lucky in many places we have instutions that open on week-end monrings that serve food to homeless people and othe people that can not afford to buy food, besie week-ends they are also opened on holidays, so poor people can also enjoy those days. These insitutions are made possible by peoples donations and the people who are there to give out the food are all voluntaries.

There are also other types of institutions for poor people, there are shelters that take in poor people for the night and they open every night, leting in each time diferent homeless people, they have to line up and wait; but still there is not enough room for all of them.

Hunger is a terrible thing in the world and maybe this is one problem that we will never be able to solve for completly, but still we try, we can make more of these institutions that help homeless people and people that can not afford to buy good type of foods.

Poverty in Acapulco

We all know Acapulco as a top destination in Mexico. Receiving a lot of turists per year, Acapulco is a prove of the development that Mexico has shown during the last years. However, we usually see Acapulco as a recreational paradise, but is the rest of Acapulco the way we imagine it?

Acapulco is one of the cities with more rural poverty. About 24% of its population has barely nothing to eat. Their diet consists on the most simple and basic food, while some other people spend 1 or 2 days without doing so.
Another problems also come with the potable water and the cost of land. About 10% of Acapulco has no drinkable water, and many houses do not have a proper housing.

I think that this is a precise example of the inequal distribution of the income within Mexico. We have a lot of people getting richer everyday while the rest continues to live in the same social status level. I think the government of Mexico should focus, besides other issues, about really caring about its people. We have a mixture of culture along with corruption and personal interests that don't allow us to give people what they need and only look for a personal benefit.
Mexico has still a lot to progress, I believe there should be more campaigns about combatting poverty in Mexico. I think by doing this, Mexico will become a more stable country starting from its foundations.

ARE THEY IN DANGER?

Las night I was reading an article in Internet about Haiti's problems since the disaster of the past January. Food and where to sleep is not the only problem they are still facing. Since the disaster it is known that there was a ENORMOUS problem with insecurity in the street, but who are the people that are in a more vulnerable situation? the vulnerable ones are KIDS. It is known that many people loose part of their family, some other loose their entire family. Many kids are walking in the streets facing dangerous situation and no one is watching out for them. So what's happening kids are disappearing. People in Haiti are in a situation that they will do whatever just to get money and by this whatever I'm talkin is about selling kids even they own kids. I'm really mad with this situation, beacause many people still have not found their family, so we need to push someone to do something because this can not continue happening. The same mistake happen the first week since the disaster planes from Miami and Holland arrived Haiti to take children to another place away from them! but wait a second how did they know in that short time that those kids did not have family. Thing like this should NOT happen! so kids are in danger and we need to stop this.

Poverty and crime

Overpopulation leads to lack of jobs, which leads to poverty. When people are desperate to get out of it, they look for an "easy" way out, crime. In crime you don't need to fit standards, you don't have to get hired, you just have to get money from others without being caught. I'm sure they are aware committing a crime is a bad thing, unless they have some sort of psychological problem, but they do it anyways, they do it to survive and maybe take care of a family too. What should we do to stop crime? I think there isn't much an individual person can do about this, but in a bigger scale, more jobs could be created, but how and from where? And if we need to end poverty why do we give those new jobs to people who don't need them as much? Because it is in our best interest, what does it has to do with me that someone thinks he needs to recur to crime to eat every day? It has to do with me because every person has a right to live properly, it has to do with me because it isn't fair that someone is swimming in a pool of money and the other in mud, it has to do with me because no one should be committing any crime, no matter how small or big it is, it's still a crime, and no one should get money by this dishonest and awful means.

What can I do know? I can start by stop complaining about what i don't have and start being grateful about what I do have, because not many people are as lucky as we are.

Inequality and discrimination

In current times inequality is more noticeable than ever. The difference between classes is bigger, the middle class is the smallest group, and as always the social class or category means a lot to people. Inequality to me means the unfair difference of opportunities that the richest people get compared to the ones that the poorest get. Seeing it this way we can understand that inequality means that there is also a part called discrimination that gets involved.

Discrimination means the unfair treatment of a group of people according to specific characteristics, such as category, that includes prejudice.I think we all understand why this is wrong, but sometimes we don't even notice we are judging someone.

As I already said inequality leads to discrimination, but it happens the other way around too. When a person is looking for a job looks affect too. The presentation of the person is also important, the people who are considering hiring make a judgement, if they don't like it they discriminate this person. This happens all the time but we don't really think it's wrong because someone with a job like, for example, a salesman, has to have a good presentation. Therefore, this person won't get this really good job, he would find it harder to find another and he probably won't , this means he would be earning no money: Inequality.

So inequality leads to discrimination, I am sure this is wrong; but when it's the other way around it is unfair for some people, but it is the most convenient for the others.

Obviously this problem does not end here, this also has to do with the lack of education, job distribution, overpopulation, poverty and so on. This is a big problem involving many others that has to get deeper into to fully understand and know what to do about it and how.

Poors vs. Riches

Often poor people critices rich people because of their wealth and I have been thinking that they are very wrong, and instead of critisicing other they should act and search for opportunities. Yes, maybe I don´t know anything about that because I´m not poor and I don´t need to work put there was a TV show that really had me thinking.

The show in short was about super rich people that went to poor places for a week and they had to decide to whom they will give money to. The episode I saw it was interesting because it was an old man around his 50. He also wanted to prove in the show that you could survive with a certain little amount of money per day.

He said thet people were complaining about money problem saying it was too little but the truth is that they didn´t knew how to organise they money because they spent it in many little things without knowing. So it was interesting seeing the man do all sort of logic and simple things to save money, which required a little more effort. Of course, many poor people donn´t know how to save money because they don´t have the knowledge so like they say, we should teach them to fish not just give them the fish.

Which leads me to another thing I found interesting in the show. The people giving money,they didn´t give it to the people who was poorer but to the people who truly need it and could rise with that money. Like for example, a washing store who went to building for the clothes then wash them and give them back, the man gave money so they could buy a van in better shape. He said that the invested in something that really needed his money.

So, if you want you can. You have to take chances and look for them. Rich people are rich because they work and take opportunities. Some have connections or are sons of rich people but money runs out, so if you want to have money you have to work for it.

Children Affected by Poverty

We all know that poverty is an issue that is present in Mexico and we can see how a lot of people is suffering because they can not get enough money to eat.

Children are now having big responsibilities; they have to work to help his parents to get more money and as young kids, they are being affected a lot; they don't have the same rights as a normal child, they are now responsible for more things, and most of the kids lost the opportunity to go to school. This situation make them prone to grow prematurely, and instead of being playing with toys, are now busy thinking of how they can get money.

If they cannot go to school, how are they going to be prepared for a good job?

How can we change this situation? how can we find a way to solve this problem?

Children shouldn't be working, children should be playing.

They have the right to go to school, to learn, to develop all their abilities. Kids should be prone to be better every day; they should be prone to succeed.

Those are some of the reasons why we should appreciate everything we have; all the opportunities that we have to succeed and everything that surround us.

Can people ascend in social classes?

Poverty is a problem society has been facing during many years. The reasons of this are due to lack of education, people don’t get prepared, and people don’t care so they continue living the same way. After analyzing this I got the question, can people ascend in social classes? Some people say that if you are born in a poor family you are going to stay poor for your entire life because you will have to work since a very young age and you won’t study. But I think that people, if they want to, can ascend in social classes, can work in whatever profession they want and they can make themselves a better person.

I think that there won’t be any limits to him or her. They can take opportunities and if kids need to work they can balance their school hours with work. If education is the problem they can go to public schools or get a scholarship. I think that if everyones starts studying and having goals the economy of the country will increase. There are millions of things you can do to be better. So I think that that thought of being always poor is false. People can be whatever they want to!

Hunger and World Poverty

Poverty means the lack of resources to afford basic human needs. Poverty is a global issue that entire world has been facing a long time ago. Poverty itself causes a lot of other things like hunger. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes!! And unfortunately most of these people are children. And we know that there is a lot of food around the world, but the problem here is poverty. They don’t have the enough resources to pay for food. And like they don’t have the enough money to pay for food they need to take food from the trash or things like that, so they are malnourished. With this they are more propane to have disease and they are weaker and this enables them to work and they can’t have money. As we can see this is like a cycle all is connected.

There are some programs that try to decrease poverty. For example, there are jobs were they are paid with food by making structures, school, etc.For children there is a program that if they go to school they receive food.

I think that this is good way to make decrease poverty, because if children are having education they can work and also they are having food so they can be nourish and with energy to go to school. And adults are having work and food at the same time. It is a good way that in al the world should be practiced.