Poverty is the state where an individual or community lacks financial and essential resources to have a standard life. There are many causes that trigger poverty such as natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Poor countries are often the ones who suffer after these unpreventable natural disasters, as they cannot afford funds to repair the damages and pay the expenses. Corrupted leaders and governmental decisions have a huge impact on the status of the country. Also agriculture would be defected since poor people often have shortage in supplies. Poverty is a huge dilemma that had a lot of innocent people suffers from its consequences; therefore a lot of organizations got built to help in raising awareness of poverty in countries to inspire people to help prevent poverty. Poverty is not just about the lack of money but it is the lack of opportunities and the lack of access to essential resources, the lack of hope. There are various causes of poverty that affects our world; one of the causes is over population, hunger, natural disasters, agricultural cycle, corrupted leader and lack of education.
Over population:
Over population is when there are a high ratio of people in a country with few essential resources and little space. High birth rates can result in over population, where children assist their parents with work like farming, selling items, delivering things, drug smuggling etc, because they are unable to provide enough