POVERTY ISSUE

POVERTY…what we can write about it. Actually, much has been written the meaning or definition of poverty. There are two form of poverty. There are economic and social or spiritual. The poverty that people usually talk is about economic but this overlook that many economically rich countries can have a much higher percentage of social poverty than economically poor countries. Social poverty is refers to people who are lonely, depressed and addicted.

Real Life Struggle for Haitian Girl

(by Skye Wheeler ,Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Inter Press Service)

Haiti: To really understand someone walk in their shoes. This is harder than it sounds for people living in poverty without shoes.

As a single mother, Hosanna struggles to care for a boy, Naitil. She found living alone on the streets. He wears the same filthy clothes every single day. “My skin itches all over,” he says, embarrassed at the bumps covering his skin.

She knows the dirt rubs his skin raw, but she doesn’t have money for detergent or new clothing or shoes. If he doesn’t get new clothes soon, the dirt will continue to eat away at his skin, causing open sores that could easily draw in deadly typhoid fever bacteria common in the local filthy river, his only source for drinking and bathing water.