Examples Of Eradication Of Poverty

Gifty Ackah

Professor Hemalatha

AFL 161-0500

January 13, 2017. Eradication of Poverty. Extreme poverty and hunger can be found in a lot of countries, millions of children are dying everyday because of hunger. Despite the millennium development goals hunger is one of the biggest problems faced in the world, According to the UN one in eight worldwide and globally estimated one in six children under five is underweight. Even though some countries have access to food other countries can not get access to food and are hungry because of poverty. It becomes extreme that, both adult and children lack nutrition to live on. Malnutrition causes them to fall sick which affect their ability to work,

Politicians are getting richer each day whiles most of the citizen live in poverty and agony. As a citizen of Ghana its really sad to see how children from the Northern side live in clay houses and do not have any educational background, most of this people work as cocoa farmers and when it is time for them to benefit from their labor the government sell them to foreign countries where it is made into chocolate, without paying them but promises that is never fulfilled. Apart from my country African countries like Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia also suffer from extreme poverty and

People in these countries are not hungry because there is not enough food to go around but rather the food available is too costly for a poor person to afford, people tend to believe that the poor are unemployed because they are lazy to find jobs but keep on producing children. While this may be true it is not about the main issue that causes poverty in our countries, it is hard to believe a poor person will choose to live their life being poor with little to go around.I believe everyone would love to live their lifestyle like these celebrities with flashy cars and houses. In most cases misfortune falls upon these people living them nothing to survive on, an example is the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Thousand of people were left homeless with no resources to survive on. Climate change also adds to the world hunger issue.When there is a lot of rain it can cause flooding which ruins the entire year’s harvest, destroying the crops the farmer has prepared for their families or the market. It also affect how much food is produced and available,increasing cost of available prices. If this occurs it means the poor can not afford to buy anything since they have no money. With many countries depending on farmers to provide food stuff with the weather change it ruins their chance of growing food to eat or