Closing the Gap Final Product
Poverty
Poverty is one of the most important and pressing issues we as a globe face today. Due to the shocking numbers of people living below the poverty line, and the millions of people dying each day from lack of nutrition, it's easy to see why it is such an important problem that needs a solution.
It is affecting the world more that we know, Poverty is a global issue as more and more people fall below the poverty line and fall into extreme hunger and homelessness.
Poverty affects billions of people worldwide and the numbers of affected people are growing each day. This matters because each person living under these harsh conditions have the right to basic human resources and thus making Poverty such a hard and difficult issue to deal with. It matters because there are people suffering and dying because of it. It affects countries all over the world, not based and biased to developing countries only. The countries listed below are the top 10 poorest countries in the world:
1. Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
2. Niger
3. Burundi
4. Mozambique
5. Chad
6. Liberia
7. Burkina Faso
8. Sierra Leone
9. Central African Republic
10. Guinea
This doesn't necessarily affect you, If you live in one of the countries listed above then yes you are affected. Because these countries are so poor, their levels of health, education, food, housing, economy and politics would not be very high and their people would not be very well off. This means that their poverty levels would be shockingly high and the majority of their population would be living under the poverty line. Poverty is such a sad and confronting issue that millions of people are faced with every day. It is something that we will never fully comprehend until we face it ourselves, but it is easy to see how difficult it is to live below the poverty line. As global citizens we should donate more to charities and do everything we can to participate to a change in poverty around the world.
It is affecting the world more that we know, Poverty is a global issue as more and more people fall below the poverty line and fall into extreme hunger and homelessness.
Poverty affects billions of people worldwide and the numbers of affected people are growing each day. This matters because each person living under these harsh conditions have the right to basic human resources and thus making Poverty such a hard and difficult issue to deal with. It matters because there are people suffering and dying because of it. It affects countries all over the world, not based and biased to developing countries only. The countries listed below are the top 10 poorest countries in the world:
1. Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
2. Niger
3. Burundi
4. Mozambique
5. Chad
6. Liberia
7. Burkina Faso
8. Sierra Leone
9. Central African Republic
10. Guinea
This doesn't necessarily affect you, If you live in one of the countries listed above then yes you are affected. Because these countries are so poor, their levels of health, education, food, housing, economy and politics would not be very high and their people would not be very well off. This means that their poverty levels would be shockingly high and the majority of their population would be living under the poverty line. Poverty is such a sad and confronting issue that millions of people are faced with every day. It is something that we will never fully comprehend until we face it ourselves, but it is easy to see how difficult it is to live below the poverty line. As global citizens we should donate more to charities and do everything we can to participate to a change in poverty around the world.