Poverty and Restaurant Menu

Do you know how rich a poor person would look like to someone in Africa? Throwing out food because we don't like the taste and smell of it? It's nothing compared to the brown filty water being poured into the mouths of thousands of Africans each week just to survive. Do you ever look at a restaurant menu and not know what to order because there's ''too much food?'' We always complain, complain and complain. Well, have you thought about the African's saying, there's not enought food. How would you feel if you were one of the 800 million people who went to bed with hunger each and every night? You would lay, shivering, listening to the unbearable sound of your stomach crying out in starvation, while billions of individuals around the world stuff on excessive amounts of food. One dollar may just be spare change to us, yet it can feed an African family of 4 for over a week; for them it is a matter of life and death. Zahra is an Ethiopian orphan who, lost her parents few years ago. She lived in an impoverished small town. Tragically, she had lost both parents to famine. Each day, she would make an exhausting seventeen mile round-trip to the nearest river, collecting contaminated filthy water.

The history of poverty hasn't disapeared, it is still here. A few generations ago, almost everybody was poor. The poor are not those who were left behind, they are the ones who were pushed out and excluded from access to their own wealth and resources. In my opinion, I don't think much has changed. Eliminating poverty is too big of a problem for just a minority of us to be troubled with. All of us must work together to make the change we need in reality.

Poverty of a nation may not always be caused by particular circumstances, but may perhaps be the consequence of not having as yet brought into action those causes which lead to affluence.
Affluent people do not know how to use their money wisely. They are filthy rich. How come? For example, I went to the store and I