Poverty

What comes to your mind if you say Poverty? Lack of money? Lack of Property? Limited amount of basic needs? Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter.  However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.

In our time today Poverty is rather significantly high in the Philippines and in other countries. You need money to buy food. You need money to send your own kids to school and to go to other places. Basically, you need money to survive in this harsh world. These are all costs of being poor. You cannot do or should I say cannot do what you ‘need’ or wants to be able to simply because you are poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can’t consider these other expenses.  When people are excluded within a society, when they are not well educated and when they have a higher incidence of illness, there are negative consequences for society. and could cause a social barrier between the people in the vicinity.

Today, I will give you the 3 examples of poverty.

First is the Absolute Poverty. This type of poverty is also known as extreme poverty or abject poverty. This is the result of the scarcity of the basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, education and accessibility in the country. Those who are in this kind of poverty experience struggle to survive with a high rate of child deaths and a great potential of acquiring health problems like malaria, cholera, dengue, etc. Because of the place they live in.

Second is the Relative Poverty. This type of poverty is a social perspective of the economic standard of a person or family. In other words, it is a measure of income inequality. For example, a family can be considered poor if it cannot afford vacations, or cannot buy presents for children at Christmas, or cannot send its young to the university. 

Lastly, the Situational Poverty is a temporary type of poverty based on occurrence of an event like environmental disaster, job loss and severe health problem.People can help themselves even with a small assistance, as the poverty comes because of unfortunate event. For example, the persons property of destroyed because of a strong typhoon and and his/her belongings were also destroyed, that person can be called poor because of the lack of shelter.

These are just some of the typed of property. I hope you are all aware of the types and know how to differentiate them.

Corruption affects us all. It threatens sustainable economic development, ethical values and justice it destabilises our society and endangers the rule of law. Delays in infrastructure development, poor building quality and layers of additional costs are all consequences of corruption. 

If the corruption continous and gets worst the future generation will suffer.
The Philippine labor market suffers from a lack of quality jobs, which means “most of the poor are working poor”, as low-paying jobs of underemployment prevent them from graduating out of poverty,
Some households, the report cites as an example, earn as little as P50 to P100 a day, and many urban poor are “trapped in a low-wage and low-productivity jobs in the informal sector. The 4Ps program, which is estimated to have contributed about 25 percent of the decline in poverty, extends monthly cash grants to the poorest of the poor families in exchange for the recipient families’ commitments to keep young children in school and for mothers to submit to regular health checkups. BUT THE QUESTION IS, 4P’S ENOUGH? HOW SURE THE GOVERMENT IS ONLY THE POOREST HAS GIVEN THIS KIND OF OPPORTUNITY? families only get the cash if their children go to school and get regular health checkups. Maybe some people don’t understand what kind of money we are talking about. It is not actually very much, and it is definitely not enough to make people kick back, stop working, and enjoy the good life. In other words, poor people are becoming less poor, but they are not becoming non-poor. This has a lot to do with the fact that the value of the benefit hasn’t changed since the program started in 2008. Inflation has made the grants worth a lot less today than they were then. 

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT POVERTY? I’LL SHOW YOU SOME TYPES FIRST IS THE Generational Poverty a family having lived in poverty for at least two generations, attitude is the main factor in being able to distinguish whether someone is from generational or situational poverty. If the individual or family feels that society owes them a living, they are considered to be in generational poverty. This means that the poverty is being passed over generations and generations. they are trappped.

THE SECOND ONE IS Rural Poverty IT OCCURS IN RURALS COMMUNITY
It is the area where there are less job opportunities, less access to services, less support for disabilities and quality education opportunities. often a product of poor infrastructure that hinders development and mobility. Most of the poor in the Philippines live in rural areas and work in the agriculture sector, mainly in farming and fishing.

THE THIRD ONE IS Urban Poverty Limited access to health and education
Inadequate housing and services. Violent and unhealthy environment because of overcrowding. Little or no social protection mechanism.
Urban environmental problems are often blamed on poverty. Almost as often, urban affluence is viewed as an environmental burden. Meanwhile, middle-income cities are often cited as extreme examples of urban environmental distress. A stylised account of an urban environmental transition that can help explain these superficially contradictory claims in terms of the different environmental burdens typically associated with cities at different levels of affluence.  

Effects of Poverty

People continue to be poor and children are born into poverty, with no hopes of improving their lives. The causes-effects, or factors, that perpetuate poverty in a household are known as the cycle of poverty.

“For enough time that the family includes no surviving ancestors who possess and can transmit the intellectual, social, and cultural capital necessary to stay out of or change their impoverished condition” 

Melio, 2015

The vicious cycle of Poverty and Crime

Crime has this capacity to generate vicious cycles causing unemployment, economic downturns and instability. Poverty and crime combined together leave people with two choices: either take part in criminal activities or try to find legal but quite limited sources of income – when there are any available at all.

Poverty on Children

“A child’s birth circumstances have a large effect on his or her chances in life.” To wit, children who are born into poverty are likely to have lower income as adults, more behavior problems, are more likely to be teen parents, and less likely to attend or graduate from college.

Feminization of Poverty

Women make significant contributions every day, such as bringing an income to households as an employed wage earner, creating jobs as an entrepreneur, or by taking care of families and elders. While both men and women suffer in poverty, gender discrimination means that women have far fewer resources to cope.

The effects of poverty are more than just missing a meal. Families struggle with chronic food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition. When families don’t have the food that their minds and bodies desire, their health and livelihood falter, trapping them in a vicious cycle of affecting one generation after another. The only way to combat the problem is to break the cycle of poverty and build strong communities. This enables every person to have enough nutritious food to live a healthy and productive life.

What comes to your mind if you say Poverty? Lack of money? Lack of Property? Limited amount of basic needs? Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter.  However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.

In our time today Poverty is rather significantly high in the Philippines and in other countries. You need money to buy food. You need money to send your own kids to school and to go to other places. Basically, you need money to survive in this harsh world. These are all costs of being poor. You cannot do or should I say cannot do what you ‘need’ or wants to be able to simply because you are poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can’t consider these other expenses.  When people are excluded within a society, when they are not well educated and when they have a higher incidence of illness, there are negative consequences for society. and could cause a social barrier between the people in the vicinity.

Today, I will give you the 3 examples of poverty.

First is the Absolute Poverty. This type of poverty is also known as extreme poverty or abject poverty. This is the result of the scarcity of the basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, education and accessibility in the country. Those who are in this kind of poverty experience struggle to survive with a high rate of child deaths and a great potential of acquiring health problems like malaria, cholera, dengue, etc. Because of the place they live in.

Second is the Relative Poverty. This type of poverty is a social perspective of the economic standard of a person or family. In other words, it is a measure of income inequality. For example, a family can be considered poor if it cannot afford vacations, or cannot buy presents for children at Christmas, or cannot send its young to the university. 

Lastly, the Situational Poverty is a temporary type of poverty based on occurrence of an event like environmental disaster, job loss and severe health problem.People can help themselves even with a small assistance, as the poverty comes because of unfortunate event. For example, the persons property of destroyed because of a strong typhoon and and his/her belongings were also destroyed, that person can be called poor because of the lack of shelter.

These are just some of the typed of property. I hope you are all aware of the types and know how to differentiate them.

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Our world is facing a lot of controversy since the beginning. As time goes by the attribute of the problems only increased. Poverty is known to be as one of the most common, and the most abundant problem that The majority of the countries ever faced.AddParagraph

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1. POOR EDUCATION– most of the extremely poor don’t have an education. And why is that? There’s a lot of barriers stopping children from going to school. Many families can’t afford to send their children to school and need them to work.  Due to lack of education many people wont be able to find a decent job in the future, where they can comply all basic needs of his family.

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2. LACK OF RESERVERS– People living in poverty don’t have the means to weather the storms of life. So when there is a drought, or conflict, or illness, there is little money saved or assets on hand to help. AddParagraph

3. CONFLICT-Conflict can cause poverty in several ways. Large scale, protracted violence that we see in places like Syria can grind society to a halt, destroy infrastructure, and cause people to flee, forcing families to sell or leave behind all their assets.AddParagraph

4. CORRUPTION– Rich have gotten richer and poor have gotten poorer. this is the saddest happening which is happening to our country in this very moment. Government officials were voted to lead the people to improve our lives and to support us through the years. But currently the (some of the)officials were the ones whos making our life miserable. By obtaining the money of people for their personal use. The people of the society will have nothing to receive when times of needs(POOR EDUCATION, LACK OR RESERVERS, CONFLICT, CORRUPTION).ClassicAddParagraph

2019 has now come and is here right before our eyes. It was last year since my class and I met. The days have gone by pretty fast. It’s like it was almost yesterday that the year 2018 just started. Every year we celebrate with the use of fireworks and food. Eating with our friends, neighbors and family. This is day is truly an explosive one. On this day people came up with ideas to inspire each other for the upcoming year. This idea is called New Year’s Resolution. It is about creating goals for yourself goals and doing them for the year. One such goals for people are going to the gym, lose some weight, gain some weight, studying more, avoid being lazy, eating less meat, etc. Goals like these are what drives other people but again these goals will not always be accomplished. Sometimes they could just be empty promises made by people to themselves.

New year, new me. It’s the wish most new year’s resolutions are based upon. The desperate hope that when the clock ticks midnight we’ll be magically transformed and all the issues and baggage we carried with us in the previous year will be discarded. “New year, new me” we whisper to ourselves as the fireworks erupt as we hope desperately for this to be the year it happens for us. The year our relationship changes, our money problems disappear, our weight loss happens, our business turns around, our job becomes more fulfilling, we finally discover that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Setting goals for yourself and doing them is good but making empty promises to yourself are not. Why make such promises in the first place? It’s like you’re lying to yourself.

New Year Traditions

Here in the Philippines there are many traditions that are being followed. Most of the traditions here in the Philippines were taken from our ancestors.

You’ll find round shapes all over the Philippines on New Year’s Eve as representatives of coins to symbolize prosperity in the coming year. Many families display piles of fruit on their dining tables and some eat exactly 12 round fruits (grapes being the most common) at midnight. Many also wear polka dots for luck.