What The United Nations Should Know About POVERTY!

Poverty is viewed as a charity, a gift or hand-out, the easy way out, etc., to some countries and people, denying life, living, and the pursuit of real happiness that poverty denies humanity.

I have eaten, drank, slept, breathed, and lived with and among poverty all my life. I live with humans who are fighting indigence, people who don’t live and think as if they are poor, and they are. I live among humans who aren’t aware of the destitution their lives are in. Many are aware of the impoverished state of their affairs and do nothing to help themselves. Others refuse to allow pauperism to win or continue to play any role in their lives and future generations.

I think the United Nations, various charity Organizations, and others treat their intention to end poverty as a charity. Instead of a better way to live and slow down its cycle.

What is the full meaning of poverty?

Poverty is defined as the state or condition where people and communities cannot meet a minimum standard of living because they lack the proper resources. These include (but aren’t limited to) financial resources, basic healthcare and education, clean drinking water, and infrastructure.

Every day, more than 30,000 children die from causes directly linked to poverty. Today, it enables a child’s death every 3 seconds. Children are the primary victims of poverty, which is the main cause of violation of their fundamental rights.

I must know that I am poor to start my journey out of poverty.

How do you notify humans that they are poor?

You can tell and show them, but for the most effective results, they must taste, feel, and experience its consequences for themselves and want to do something about it.

It’s an involuntary action for us to taste something sour or bitter and detest the taste. The opposite is for something sweet.

Poverty isn’t sweet. It is pain for me.

It’s also an involuntary action for us to react negatively to pain and find quick, sensible, and productive solutions.

Then if poverty is pain, humans will want to find ways to fix the problem.

A life of poverty is a painful one that runs deeper than many humans dare to go. Going deep, many might find things they don’t like, unaware that no journey to a better life is without obstacles.

When humans are in pain, they find solutions.

Why aren’t the poor finding solutions to their pain of poverty?

Maybe they don’t know they are poor.

I knew I was poor in the second grade in primary school. The pain grew with me and held on to my heart and soul reminding me of the consequences and results of poverty. While absorbing the pain and witnessing poverty’s destruction and never-ending damage, solutions found me. Ask many of the humans who manage to rise above the hardship’s poverty imposed on their lives. They were aware of the pain and found better solutions.

They took that battle personally and fought like hell to keep it away from themselves and their generation.

To end poverty each individual must take it seriously and start their personal battle to disable it. The solutions to end it must start within the heart and from the pain of the one experiencing it. It must be something they want too.

The UN cannot end something they didn’t start.

I used to live among humans who never paid a bill in their lives, and they lived to be eighty years old. Yes, they utilized the service of light, water, and housing. They have good jobs and never saved a dime or did anything to better themselves. Their children became the victims of their lack of ability to plan and they unintentionally escalate poverty to higher heights.

In these areas, the crime rate is so high, that our government must post soldiers on every Street corner as people are dying daily. Children included. The below monument is dedicated to the Jamaican children tragically killed in poor areas across Jamaica.

The end image, that's the space that is left to add names.

Because of the free mentality, many humans stay in these areas devaluing their lives and their future generations.

Smarter and aware people save to move to a better area where their lives would improve in value and would be surrounded by more hope that would motivate them.

Children became the victims of human’s lack of awareness of their poverty. They are dying at an alarming rate in these poor areas globally. Jamaica had built a monument to their memory adding names from 2004. It’s been 19 years and they are running out of space as more children keep dying in many of these areas that poverty live in.

Not a lot of thought is put into poverty and how destructive it is.

Poverty is never going to end until humans start to treat it as a personal or individual issue that is disrupting their lives. Are disabling dreams. Destroying hope. Dividing humanity, allowing disunity to live. Damaging economies and lives. Poverty has contributed to the destruction of more human lives than anything else in our world, because every day someone dies from its results. Mostly, children.

According to:

Effects of poverty

Every hour of every day more than 700 children die. The causes of death vary, but the vast majority can be traced down to one single cause: poverty.

I was one of those children who survived because I took the pain of poverty as a personal battle.

It doesn’t only deprive us of food, clothing, and shelter, but also education, health care, jobs, clean water, peace, hope, love, life, living and so much more.

I live among humans who do nothing to improve their lives.

A male I knew, worked hard for his money, sacrificed, and saved to buy a car. He can’t drive. Doesn’t have a driver’s license and lives rent and utility-free in a high violence and crime rate area. His life has no value and every day, he is alive, is a gift. He is unaware of that value.

I know a male whose father left him a house that is falling apart. He got some money from his father’s former employer. Instead of repairing the house, he used the money to buy an old car that he couldn’t get parts for. It is parked in front of the house, both rotting away.

I know a female who lost her house because the money that should have paid her mortgage, was used to look good, bleach her skin, buy fake hair, and live beyond her means. Another one doesn’t pay property taxes or water bills. She owes the government a lot and the National Water Commission has a lien against the property for non-payment. Another one, the first million she held in the palm of her hands, she bought a car. Lost her job months later. The bank repossessed her car, sending her back to the bottom.

Studying life and my people, it hurts to see how many of them contribute to, and allow poverty to reign, turning children and their future into collateral damage. I can share a long list of my people who contribute to their poverty by how they live their lives. Their personal actions, choices, and decisions. How they think too. We contribute to our Fate and Destiny giving poverty room to breathe, live, thrive, and destroy future lives.

Poverty thrives from somewhere deep within, like our need for success, and with reason, hope, determination, why, and how, a journey to clip poverty’s wings can begin.

I live among humans who don’t try because if they are considered poor and are a victim, someone will always be giving them something.

Poverty is also a State of mind.

Because #Iintend2survive it became a personal fight for me because I felt its consequences as a child. I witnessed how I and others are treated without regard, care, or feeling because our parents have nothing. The poor are treated without humanity in our world and many children never recovered from that cruel act. Some broke rules and laws to avoid being poor. They pay a price too because they lack the proper education, knowledge, and resources that would allow them to make the right decision.

Because I am aware that I am poor, I view poverty as a choice and many are unaware that they are choosing it by their actions, choices, and decisions.

Poverty should be a personal battle for each individual because it hurts worse than hunger and birth pain together. The pain of poverty and how I was treated stayed with me. I use it as a guide and reason to fight poverty and win. #Iintend2survive no matter what life throws my way. And so should you!

This is a message to the UN. Poverty is viewed as a charity, a gift or hand-out, an easy way out, etc., to some countries and people, denying life, living, and the pursuit of real happiness that poverty denies humanity.

What if the UN started attacking poverty from a personal level or an individual angle? Unity would be the first step.

Poverty runs deeper than humanity can see, because, for many humans, it’s been running for generations. It’s implanted deep in our bodies, minds, and souls. So to slow it down or stop it, the UN and anyone who wants to help must go deeper. The individual must want to end poverty for themselves.

They must know that a fight will begin and must continue daily.

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