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Troy Winston Megan Keaton ENG 111-08 9 July 2013 World Poverty

Poverty affects more than a billion people worldwide. Poverty can be defined as lack of adequate shelter, not having access to schools, not knowing how to read or write and not having enough food to eat. Poverty is being powerless and having the lack of representation and freedom. According to Anup Shah, Almost half the world lives on less than $2.50 a day. Poverty is one of the largest problems the world is dealing with today in almost every nation. The poorest people are marginalized from their society and have little representation in political debates dealing with their plight (Mack). Depending on the environment, there are plenty of factors that contribute to the plight of poverty. The solutions of poverty varies as well. With many people around the world living in poverty, there are many things that can be done to attack this epidemic that is affecting billions. Economic freedom with better schools and qualified teachers. Social programs and counseling services to help educate those on the brink of collapse. This could identify a potential problem before situations spiral out of control. Another solution is provide people with full time employment with jobs that could lead to careers. In some poor countries, high unemployment and jobs with low wages can lead to a high crime rate and a breeding ground for terrorism.

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Children around the world are the most affected by conditions due to poverty. Over 5 million children die every year due to hunger and malnutrition when 50% of all foods harvested in the United States is never consumed, but put to trash (Shah). Most children do not have the basic needs to maintain their own survival and are forced to have little to no access to health care, education or services that will enhance their life. Yet they are force to succumb to adverse conditions with little or no hope of reversing their situation. Healthcare reform can reduce the number of children dying. According to One.Org, poor countries pay more in debt than in healthcare and education. In a world that has so much of everything, a huge number of people go hungry. There is more to hunger than meeting demands of the production of food. Hunger and poverty are related in many ways. There cannot be one without the existence of the other. People go hungry if they are not capable of buying food, and usually those people live in poverty. Free food for the poor and food drives to poor communities is a way to help so many families in need. When undernourished individuals do not starve and most do not, even in the poorest countriesthey are afflicted instead with a variety of debilitating health conditions (Gilbert 12). Gilbert went on to say, The bad effects of inadequate nourishment begin before birth, contribute to abnormally high death rates at birth for both babies and their mothers, and continue into childhood. Up to the age of five, children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition. It is believed that gender inequality is a consistent factor with extreme poverty . AIDS/HIV, climate change and the rise in the price of food have a major impact on the poor and can be a large obstacle to overcome. So ask the question, What can be done to win the battle on poverty? It is possible that the riches nation gather their resources and develop a strategy to

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eradicate the problem at home and across the globe? With the United States and Europe wasting 50% of their food source per year, one would think there can be ways to help those less fortunate. Or help train underdeveloped counties with inefficient agricultural practices to grow productive crops to feed their communities rather than Bail Out corporate businesses that squandered millions of tax payers money. A Chinese proverb says, Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. It seem with all the great minds that are in the world, scholars seems baffled by the epidemic. It therefore seems obvious that ethics scholars must research the avoidable reasons for the deepening gap between the well-off and the worst-off, as well as asking the core ethical question of who might be held responsible for the abolition of absolute poverty, and on what moral grounds (Mack 1). About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes. (Mack) This is one person every three and a half seconds, Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. According to Hunger and World Poverty Sources, There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are food for work programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools dig wells, make roads and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty For children, there are food for education programs where all the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty. With these programs in place and more on the horizon, the social awareness of poverty is taken notice but still isnt enough. Until everyone comes together to attack this issue, it will remain for decades to come.

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Works Cited Gilbert, Geoffrey. Santa Barbara, World Poverty. Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004. 01/01/2004 Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam Mack, Elke. In: Law, Ethics and Economics. Farnham, England : Ashgate. 2009 Shah, Anup. Poverty Facts and Stats. Global Issues. 07 Jan. 2013. Web. 09 Jul. 2013 http://povertyhci.weebly.com/solving-the-problem.html Yunus, Muhammad. New York : PublicAffairs. 2007.

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Works Cited Gilbert, Geoffrey. Santa Barbara, World Poverty. Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004. 01/01/2004 Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam Mack, Elke. In: Law, Ethics and Economics. Farnham, England : Ashgate. 2009 Shah, Anup. Poverty Facts and Stats. Global Issues. 07 Jan. 2013. Web. 09 Jul. 2013 http://povertyhci.weebly.com/solving-the-problem.html Yunus, Muhammad. New York : PublicAffairs. 2007.