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Extreme Poverty : Causes, Effects, And Solutions

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There are many global issues in the world one of them is extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is an issue in many countries all over the world. There are several causes, effects, and solutions to this issue. Extreme poverty is living on under two dollars a day, migration, violence, lack of education, diseases, starvation and exploitation. Colombia is a country where there are people living on two dollars a day. A country where they are not getting the education that they need. In Colombia, about 30 percent of the population are living in extreme poverty conditions. Colombia is also a country where drug-related violence is one of the biggest causes of death The U.S has tried to …show more content…

Living in the conditions that they live in it is really hard to survive when there is no help from any resources or your government (Brett). Poor access to education and health care is a major cause in Colombia also. In Colombia, there is poor quality access to education. A person can’t get out of poverty if they don’t have an education or the education that they are getting is poor quality. Children are not attending school to help their parents work. They don’t have the money to afford school supplies or uniforms to go to school, making it harder for them to break the cycle of poverty. They have poor access to healthcare because they can’t afford it also the government is not willing to provide it for them. (Cotte) Some effects of extreme poverty in Colombia are death, lack of human security and little security of employment. There are many other effects but these are the main effects of poverty in Colombia. Effects that not much people pay attention to. People don’t think that these effects affect people that are in poverty or effects that lead people to poverty. Living in extreme poverty, death can be a really big effect. There are people that die from starvation because they can’t afford food, shelter or provide healthcare when they are ill. Each week 2 to 3 children are dying of malnutrition and lack of water. They

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