Poverty

Poverty and ways to alleviate it




Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford the basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. The problem about this indicator is that as the rate of poverty increases the social problems begin to be more evident, and quality of life of the inhabitants of the country or place decrease.

Fifteen years ago, in Copenhagen, global leaders at the World Summit for Social Development described poverty eradication as an ethical, political and economic imperative, and identified it as one of the three pillars of social development. Poverty eradication has since become the overarching objective of development, as reflected in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, which set the target of halving global extreme poverty by 2015. How do that? It is a point that many countries debated.

Social poverty exists across all societies in numerous and often compounded forms, affecting people of all ages and backgrounds in many countries, and the forms the work for eradicated this problem are different. For example, in Costa Rica the elected president Laura Chinchilla announced the creation of a new ministry: the Ministry of Social Welfare and Development. The stated aim of this new ministry is to sort out and reorganize the dozens of current programs designed to fight poverty. Despite all the information that concrete plans about how they will manage to eradicate poverty are not clear. Regarding this, I think is important to analyze what we can do to help for eradicate this issue, independent of the government are making. Are many things you can do: volunteer year round, donate things, start a Giving Circle to fund local organizations, treat and speak about the poor with respect, others.

The people can know the recent international crisis increase the families that are more vulnerable to hunger and poverty. So is time to establish better solutions for eradicate that problem, and for get more people to become part of the change and put their bit to help the needy. It is necessary to find country-solutions, and all the people help to eradicate this problem, learning to share the things that the God provide us.



References

• Usexpatcostarica (2010). News. Collected on June 9, from

www.usexpatcostarica.com/2010/03/poverty-costa-rica

• United Nations, (2010). Report on the World Social Situation. Collected on June 9, from

www.un.org