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Blog Action Day: Poverty ‘08
Today is Blog Action Day, when many blogs on all topics write about a single issue which is affecting the world and needs to be corrected. The topic this year is poverty, a critical matter that is the cause of thousands of daily deaths throughout the world. The Wikiweblog Team decided to write an article surrounding this topic and we will be attempting to create enough buzz to help solve this ongoing crises.
Unindustrialised Poverty
When thinking about poverty and hunger, we automatically tend to think of the starving children in unindustrialised nations. Third world nations, which are economically underdeveloped countries, make up the majority of the world. These nations suffer from corrupt governments, hunger, inhumane living conditions, constant strife, and many other dilemmas that all share the same underlining fundamental issue: poverty. At a time when the world seems to be collapsing economically, this vital moment does not shed any light on the third world. The first and quickly rising second world nations cannot turn their backs on the fact that the rest of the world needs their support to at least have the ability to access clean waters and have fresh foods. There are many programs and organizations that are attempting to solve poverty and hunger issues, but they need more funding and volunteers to make greater achievements.
Our Neighbourhoods
Poverty is not only a problem in the third world, but it is right here under our noses. You don’t have to be a starving African child to know the effects of poverty. There are millions living in poor conditions who are struggling daily to pay bills, put food on the table, sustain their job when unemployment is reaching its peak, and at the same time fight off any threat such as drugs that many people in those conditions tend to succumb to due to those very conditions. If you’re not able to help out other nations, at least attempt to clean up your very own neighbourhood. It is important to teach teenagers to choose the correct path in life, to teach them that some things that may come easy now are detrimental in the long-run. It is up to all of us to influence each other in a positive way. The blog action day issue may be poverty, but poverty is not a topic that can be tackled with one clean swipe, but it has roots and branches that connect to it. In order to really get rid of poverty, we must all decide to follow a vision where you’ll help in a way that you can, and I’ll help in a way that I can. When everyone gives a little, aside from constantly taking, we all win something.
Something to Remember
Competition tends to feed poverty. Sometimes you and I need to stop for a moment and really indulge in what we have instead of what we lack. And once we do that, we will see that we might have more than what we thought we did, and more importantly, that we are all in the same struggle together. We shouldn’t try to take from each other, but instead embrace what each of us has and share it. Also, the underlining causes of poverty will not be solved in a single day, but if we aim to solve the problem, there’s nothing stopping us but us.
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Here are 88 ways you can help get rid of poverty today!
http://site.blogactionday.org/poverty/fight-poverty/
I agree, we often forget that poverty is an issue all nations face. Poverty isn’t just related to “underdeveloped countries”
Sometimes as people we forget that although we may live in different parts of the world, or have different religious practices, or are from different ethnicities..we are all humane and we all share the basic need for basic necessities.