POVERTY

What defines poverty? Poverty can be defined as the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
It is safe to say that a vast majority of people living in wealthy countries such as England, USA, West Germany, and Australia highly enjoy the luxurious lifestyles they lead. They have absolutely everything they need but we seem to take our living conditions for granted.  We should think of what the other side of the world has to go through. Imagining living in a country or possibly a desert without food or water, no clothing and having to use cardboard boxes to warm ourselves would be a complete disaster but this is basically what poverty is all about except half of the world do this today.

The most obvious reasons why many people are hungry are because they are either too poor to afford any or they live in different parts of the world where they have infertile soils to produce food for themselves. Two different problems often tend to happen when there isn’t enough money for food; young children easily catch diseases, known as ‘marasmus’, due to insufficient food of any kind a result of skinny wasted bodies, shriveled up skin, loss of hair and massive round eyes. Other obvious diseases are malaria, sleeping sicknesses, river blindness and bilharzias where children suffer the most in Africa. Almost 20, 000 children die from different illnesses every ay being unable to escape from these horrifying illnesses.
There have been more than 100 wars ever since the Second World War ended in 1945. The most destroying kind of opposition is war. There have been a huge number of people that have died due to war, and perhaps many serious injuries that cannot be cured at all. Past wars have always left destruction, wherever it had happened, destroying many homes of innocent families. Increasingly, children have often been selected to participate in a system that mixes war, poverty, violence, and hunger. Although, there are unstructured in this type of physical act, they are involved in acts of violence such as planting bombs.

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The Old Testament teaches us that God uses warfare as a key to punish evil and cruel nations and put a dead end to injustice in the world. 
‘You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people. That is how you prevent the poor from having their rights and from getting justice…what will you do when god punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? You will be killed in battle or dragged off as prisoners.”

In rich countries, most people are expected to live until the age of 70 ...

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