Thesis About Poverty

INTRODUCTION:

Background

Poverty is mostly based in Africa. According to the dictionary poverty is defined as “The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support”. Poverty could be said it started after the arrival of colonists, as they wanted to take over the lands of Africans. They wanted to change the lives of those people and westernize them. As they were forced off their lands then poverty became worse. Rural areas are the most areas that experience poverty at the extreme because they dependent on agriculture for food and development there is very slow or does not even reach them at all. People leave the rural areas to live in the cities that mean people with skills decide that as there are no opportunities

Due to the poor governance, the people in the higher authority are unable to solve such matters. At the end those unprivileged people still have face poverty and that causes inequalities in their society. Africa is wealthy in minerals and other things but they do not have the necessary equipment or even to deploy the needed equipment.

Problem statement

Are Africans suffering from poverty?

Hypothesis

Yes, countries in Africa suffer from poverty especially in the sub-Saharan and it is due to not having adequate or proper good governance and lack of good ethics.

Argument

The percentage of poverty in Africa has not changed and yet more people in the sub- Sahara are still experiencing extreme poverty. Many children are dying from this poverty, due to not eating for days. Poverty causes hunger that is why they work hand in hand; if those causes of poverty are not reduced there are no chances of alleviating hunger. Africa has the highest number of people who do not have access to clean water, adequate health facilities, education and sanitation. Poverty is caused by unemployment, wars in the countries, climate change, low rate of job opportunity, conflicts or poor usage of their finances,

This people receive $1, 25 less a day, which is not even enough to buy a proper food. If only the government could give attention to the necessary things that will benefit the country and its citizen. People who are affected are the children as they need food to survive. Research has shown that in South Africa 1 out of 10 children die from extreme malnutrition and dies before reaching a certain age. About 22 000 thousand children die each day due to conditions of poverty. Women also suffer from poverty and according to research about women 55 percent or 12.2 million women in sub-Saharan Africa are living with HIV/AIDS and are living with hunger because they are unable to work. As men are known to be the providers of a family the women are not are no given the opportunity to do their duties. Most women who are poor are illiterate and the children are even attending schools. If everyone could get education the poverty circle would break, poverty started from the grandparents, the parents then the new generation. If the circle of poverty could be broken then the following generation would have the necessary information to always try by all means to prevent extreme poverty. Poverty experienced by men or even worse is people who are disabled. Those people need all the care they can get and to eat properly.