What poverty?
...art health of Canadians. It sad to see so many people in the world dying every day from starvation and malnourishment, because they can’t afford the cost for such thing as proper food, or supplements. For Jo Goodwin Parker in the Essay she describes how she makes 78 dollars a month and how much she spends on rent and food “I pay twenty dollars a month rent, and most of the rest goes for food. For grits and cornmeal, and rice and milk and beans” (Ph.9). She describes how her children suffer from malnutrition “They do not suffer from hunger, my seventy-eight dollars keep us alive, but they do suffer from malnutrition” so much that the mother is suffering from a disease called chronic anemia caused by poor diet. Now put yourself in her shoes, could you feed yourself and your three kids with 78 dollars a month, or even double that? “860 million adults are illiterate, over 100 million children have no access to school, and countless children, youth and adults who attend school or other educational programs fall short of the required level to be considered literate in today’s complex world” (portal.unesco.org). Even going to school is considered a challenge for the poor as they have “no extra books, no magazines, no extra pencils, or crayons, or paper” and if they did find a way to get around all that “they do not have health”(Ph.11). Without an education it becomes much more difficult to find a job later in life, and the poor stay poor. Health can also pose as a major problem such as infections, worms or serious disease can’t be treated and the cost for medication is high and is always rising. Furthermore, infection and worms can be caught easily as hygiene is very low and insects are everywhere “Insects in your food, in your nose, in your eyes, and crawling over you when you sleep” (Ph.5). As time ticks on, poverty in the world increases so much that it has become an epidemic; and keeps on growing. Even in Canada the number of people relying on food banks has risen, as well as the numbers of Canadians “living below the accepted low-income cut-off point” (Scott Fogden). For us who sit in ou...