Bridging The Gap Essay

Poverty not only mean by lack of needs but also capabilities such as social belonging, cultural identity, respect, and dignity, and information and education (Patrice L. Engle and Maureen m. black, 2008). In Bridging the Gaps, the World Health Organization (1995) states, ‘The world’s most ruthless killer and the greatest cause of suffering on earth is poverty.’ Especially for children and teenagers, if they face a long-term poverty environment, they will be influenced by urgent risk factor on their education, health, and cognitive (NRC & IOM, 2009). By and large, the effect of poverty on children and teenagers is low education achievement, poor health, and cognitive problem.

First, according the Dashiff, DiMicco, Myers, & Sheppard (2009),

Students from well background will sometime, try to bully or judge them because they don’t have suitable uniforms or shoes. Wearing torn uniforms to school, or unable to buy new school uniform as well as basic learning materials.David (2015) claimed that these children who lack hope for a good future can result as dropouts at a high rate(p.12&13).Some poor students feel self-abased because they know their family are unable to meet the high demand.So, they will more likely end up as dropouts.This will cause them to miss a lot of opportunities and cause illiteracy.Moreover, David(2015) added that poverty will also hinder academic success regardless of children or teenagers’(p.14).Data shows that most of the poor children score better test mark than rich children. However, the well to do children are always faster to succeed compared to the poor children. They face difficulties to succeed.Therefore, poverty will directly affect the children and teenagers’