RSS FeedsBlog Action Day – Breaking The Vicious Cycle of Poverty
Oct 15, 2008
Whenever the thoughts of poverty come to my mind I’m hit by the images of emaciated, weak, and small bodies incapable of taking on the challenges of life. There are two fundamental things that keep people poor aside from lack of money and resources:
- Lack of food
- Lack of education
Proper nutrition keeps our minds and bodies healthy and these two physical aspects are required in order to live a meaningful and purposeful life. The same goes for education. Education is not just needed to gain employment it is also needed to understand life and the world around us. So if we want to break the vicious cycle of poverty we first have to break the vicious circle of lack of food and lack of education and this requires proactive measures from people who have the resources. I hope campaigns like BLOG ACTION DAY can motivate people and make them take proactive measures in their respective communities.
I think the governments, along with providing employment opportunities and maintaining a sense of equal justice, should also provide food to the poor because I am pretty sure once people start feeling healthy they can work harder and with greater focus. When most of the time they feel hungry and weak how can we expect them to feel motivated. What we eat certainly affects the way we think. If we get just one measly meal everyday than our outlook remains proportionate to that meal and the world doesn’t go beyond that meal.
In India there are many food-for-work schemes but rarely the right people get the right food. Even in schools for the poor the government provides free meals to the children and in fact these meals are one of the greatest attractions that draw them towards the school. More than money and employment people first of all need food and food should not depend on employment. Food should be available to every citizen of the world by default whether he or she works or not. It may sound unfair to many people but just think how much food is wasted in developed and developing countries where economically well-off people can easily afford good food. More than half the population of the world can perhaps be fed by the amount of food that is thrown away. So you can very well make out what’s more unfair.
Besides, if communities are helped to become self-sufficient in producing and consuming nutritious food locally then this problem can be solved forever. Since the poor are uneducated and unaware of their own environment most of the time they don’t know how to eat healthy food that can be easily produced or acquired without spending money.
Similarly access to quality education should be easily available to everybody. Now I am not talking about making every kind of education freely available but at least fundamental education – education that teaches you how to read, how to analyze the world around you, give a head start to your children during their primary school days and carry out day today mathematics. This can be achieved by individual effort and by state-level efforts. Whereas state-level efforts, half-heartedly, are always functioning it is the individual effort that can eventually make a difference.
Lack of nutrition and education are the root causes that keep the vicious circle of poverty rolling and unless these two issues are not tackled we will not be able to alleviate poverty.
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October 15th, 2008 at 4:26 am
[...] a meaningful and purposeful life. The same goes for education. Education is not just needed to gain Source Education - [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 5:50 am
A UNICEF report states
* Robbed of their mental as well as physical potential, malnourished children who live past childhood face diminished futures. They will become adults with lower physical and intellectual abilities, lower levels of productivity and higher levels of chronic illness and disability, often in societies with little economic capacity for even minimal therapeutic and rehabilitative measures.
Basically saying that children who don’t get enough nutrition will pay the price their entire lives. and so will our country!
October 15th, 2008 at 5:58 am
World Hunger Year co-founder Bill Ayers will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com at 5 PM New York time today to talk about World Food Day.
Please go to my blog at http://www.garybaumgarten.com and click on the link to the show to talk to Ayers.
Thanks.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I totally agree Amita, hunger is one of the root causes of non-stop poverty.
Gary, thanks for link.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
First time . a nice and informative blog u have here.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Thank you Vandana. Your blog is great too
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