Poverty Speech
The issue of poverty is an issue that has been around for decades but yet, it still hasn’t been addressed correctly or efficiently. It’s a serious issue that affects a large amount being 1.4 billion people globally, many of these people living on less than $1.25 every day.
It’s estimated that about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, and unfortunately it’s mostly children that die to these preventable causes, and its estimated that approximately 11 million children living in poverty will die before their 5th birthday.
Poverty is the lack or absence of what we would call the essentials. These include: * Clean Water * Food * Shelter * Nutrition * Health Care * Education
Everyday things that we take for granted.
The sad thing is that there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick.
But hunger isn’t their only problem; they are suffering problems such as;
AIDS – Which is now the second largest wide spread disease in history, second to the Black Death. AIDS kills over 2 million people a year and once again it’s mainly children who make up the death toll. Children are often infected with the HIV virus during pregnancy or through breast feeding.
Pneumonia - and other forms of acute respiratory infection (ARI) kill more than 2 million children alone each year in poor countries. Pneumonia is contagious and is commonly transmitted when an infected person coughs or sneezes small droplets that contain the germ into the air. If treated, pneumonia usually is not fatal.
Diarrhea - diseases kill about 1.6 million people each year, almost all of them children. Diarrhea is most often a result of unclean water, unsafe sanitation, or poor
It’s estimated that about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, and unfortunately it’s mostly children that die to these preventable causes, and its estimated that approximately 11 million children living in poverty will die before their 5th birthday.
Poverty is the lack or absence of what we would call the essentials. These include: * Clean Water * Food * Shelter * Nutrition * Health Care * Education
Everyday things that we take for granted.
The sad thing is that there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick.
But hunger isn’t their only problem; they are suffering problems such as;
AIDS – Which is now the second largest wide spread disease in history, second to the Black Death. AIDS kills over 2 million people a year and once again it’s mainly children who make up the death toll. Children are often infected with the HIV virus during pregnancy or through breast feeding.
Pneumonia - and other forms of acute respiratory infection (ARI) kill more than 2 million children alone each year in poor countries. Pneumonia is contagious and is commonly transmitted when an infected person coughs or sneezes small droplets that contain the germ into the air. If treated, pneumonia usually is not fatal.
Diarrhea - diseases kill about 1.6 million people each year, almost all of them children. Diarrhea is most often a result of unclean water, unsafe sanitation, or poor