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Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity.

It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, or a job to earn ones living. It means insecurity, powerlessness, without access to clean water or sanitation.

Around the world, in rich or poor nations, poverty

has always been present. In most nations today, inequalitythe gap between the rich and the pooris quite high and often widening. Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect social cohesion and lead to problems such as increasing crime and violence.

The causes are numerous, including a lack

of individual responsibility, bad government policy, exploitation by people and businesses with power and influence, corruption or some combination of these and other factors.

At every 3 seconds in world, poverty end a child's life.

In Africa one of six children die before the age of 5 years. In every night, eight hundred millions people go to bed hungry. 600 million children live in absolute poverty. Every year 10 million children die of hunger and malnutrition related diseases. One billion from 2.2 of children live in poverty.

Its never too late to do something good for someone! Especially for poor people

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