JVK’s Thoughts On Poverty

Hi I’m 11 years old and my screen name is JVK. I’m going to talk about what poverty means to me. I think poverty is a big problem in our world and is an issue that people have to talk about. People can’t keep ignoring poverty. Just like the government is. If the government just donated so much money than poverty would be over. Not a lot of people care about poverty, they just say “it’s not me so why should I care about it.” People in poverty need all the help they can get. And that’s not very much because not a lot of people will help them.

I think that poverty is caused by taxes, because they are really high. I think another reason is gas prices, because gas prices are just ridiculous right now. And the last reason is the prices of everything. It’s not just the adults who have to go through poverty it’s the children too. Every single year 6 million children actually die from malnutrition before their 5th birthday!

I can’t imagine going through what those children have to go through everyday. None of those children get DS’s or WII’s. All they have to play with are rocks and sticks. Sometimes not even that.

Children and adults don’t have enough money for school so they can’t read books or sign their own name. They can’t afford cars or bikes. They don’t have enough for food. They can’t go to KFC or Dairy Queen. More than 800 million people go to bed hungry, 300 million of them are children! They don’t get a midnight snack or ice cream. So all of those children and adults turn to food banks. A bad thing about food banks is that if people don’t donate food because they don’t care than there is no food for the people in poverty.

When someone’s in poverty they will take whatever job they can get, even if it’s just mowing someone’s lawn for maybe $1.00 a day. Actually 1.2 billion people in the world have to survive on less than $1.00 a day! There are a lot of commercials and advertisements about poverty, and what they are trying to persuade you to do is to donate money. And a lot of people do, it is helping but not a lot.

The part of poverty that I don’t really like to talk about is all the deaths. Poverty kills more than 50,000 people each day. No one cares that people all over the world are dieing. The last thing that they want to do is not live to see if poverty actually ends. About 26,575 children die every day because of poverty worldwide (1 child every 3 seconds)! When you’re on vacation or playing video games several children are dieing.

Billions of people live in poverty. Not a lot of people stop to think that someday they could be one of those people who don’t have any money or have to live on the streets in a cardboard box. Do something about poverty.

Think about poverty,

JVK