Tag: Extreme poverty

Reducing poverty by Education

Picture of siblings living in extreme poverty ...
Picture of siblings living in extreme poverty in El Salvador. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To eliminate extreme poverty there is no magic bullet. The causes of poverty are many, varied and interdependent. Education is a key to lifting people out of the cycle of extreme poverty and preventing one poor generation producing another poor generation.

Of course, education alone is not enough. Childhood diseases prevent children attending school and undernourishment of infants can cause brain damage which prevents them achieving their full potential. Continue reading “Reducing poverty by Education”

The abolition of extreme poverty

Extreme poverty

Extreme poverty exists when people lack the basic requirements for life.

  • Lack of income means that the family suffer from malnutrition
  • Lack of capital means there is no buffer when disaster strikes
  • Lack of medicines to deal with preventable and curable diseases
  • Lack of clean drinking water
  • Lack of even primary education
  • Hopelessness, with no possibility of getting out of the situation.

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Freedom from Poverty

It is my contention that the whole world needs freedom from poverty. It is not just the desperately poor who need that freedom. In tolerating a situation in which two billion people survive on £9 a week, we are all implicated and all need setting free from the slavery of poverty.

This article explores this freedom, and the casual, underlying and root causes of poverty. Continue reading “Freedom from Poverty”