Growing Up In Tanzania

In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer urges all Americans to donate any money not being used for sustenance to help children overseas. When I read this article in my AP Language and Composition class last year, I realized the duty I had as a privileged individual, to help these underserved communities. However, this was not something my friends and I could engage in-- we were all broke and didn’t even have jobs, not to mention the harrowing expense of future college tuitions haunting our dreams. But this didn’t mean we couldn’t help save children’s lives. I found three other colleagues who shared my goal of helping kids globally and we collaborated to co-found our high school’s own UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) club.

Poverty makes a huge impact on a growing child’s mental state. The feeling of never being able to have the same things as your counterparts is a difficult feeling. It makes one feel as if they are not good enough and leads to the formation of an inferiority complex. In a land far away, Artur Samarin also has to tackle similar challenges growing up in a post Soviet Ukraine. When talking about his life in Ukraine, he says that is it like the “United kingdom a thousand years ago, when they hadn’t had the industrial revolution… no opportunities, no money, to areas to realize yourself” (Riley 11).

The Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research conducted a study using data gathered from 46 developing countries to examine child poverty. The results found over a third of children lived in absolute poverty or in homes of more than five people.134 million 7-18 year olds lack basic education and over 375 million drink unsafe water. Civil war added to all of this makes for a hard existence  (Newbold et al.,

Back in 2014 and 2015, the school I used to attend in the Dominican Republic organized trips to orphanages in Haiti. 80 percent of the 32 000 orphans across the 760 orphanages have parents who want them, but they are not able to support their children. The organized trips were crucial in forming me as a caring and loving person. Before, I wouldn’t have been able to imagine how heart-breaking watching these starving, cheerless children would be. I always visualized kids as playful, blissful, and joyful creatures. However, looking at the Haitian orphans I realized how cruel reality can be to people. It was the first time I’ve faced such conditions, and I strongly rejected the fact who there are people in the world that may deserve even a little part of it.

The existence of poverty is to commonly overlooked and denied by many. This is true when you or a friend have probably walked by a beggar and gave him/her nothing. You think he does drugs or you think he drinks but in reality he might have just made one mistake and there was no one there to help him back up. This chain of having no money is a factor that can destroy one’s self reputation. Poverty affects the health and education of those below the line of

On October,19,2017 I watched a Ted Talk Called “ Dangers of a single story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She spoke about her life in Nigeria before she studied abroad in The United States of America and the dangers of knowing 1 side of the story this is also known as ‘Bias’. After watching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Ted talk, I believe not everyone in Africa lives in poverty, stereotypes in Children 's books cause unrealistic ideas of reality and the media fabricates news to generate views and labels specific groups of people.

Promises not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development by John Isbister is a balanced, penetrating, and exciting account of why most people on the planet are poor, who has betrayed the promise for social change, and what we can do about it. Isbister gives a superb overview of third world development. He challenges people in developed nations to accept their share of responsibility for Third World stagnation and examines and analyzing international development issues. Promises not Kept offers provocative answers to the question of increasing world poverty.

On one sunny day, I was helping my mom doing chores when she pulled me over to talk to me about something important. I was confused why my mom would want to me about something important, but I listened to what she said and followed her. What she told me was what her life was like back in Vietnam. She did not have much of an education. Instead, she stayed home with her mom to sell Vietnamese yogurt every day for a living. Since I was born in America, I never thought of life was like for others in developing countries like Vietnam. Hearing from my mom's experience, it stuck with me. I learned the importance of being grateful for what I have since they are a lot of people who do not have what we have in America and it made me want to help those who are in need. I was also inspired to do whatever I

Those fortunate enough to be able to afford an education could lead to countless opportunities of success. In the book, Outcasts United, written by Warren St. John, recounts stories of refugees living in the United States who had to leave their home country due to violence and poverty. Much like the book, Outcasts United, in class we watched a documentary film on refugee resettlement in the United States called “Lost Boys”, which showed people living in Africa who suffered from civil wars within their country such as Sudan, who than came to America for a better life and to be able to work and to get an education to help their future along with their families future. Poverty is too broad of a subject to be able to break down and try and fix it, as it is an issue not only with countries in Africa, but also in every country in the World. The fight against stopping poverty seems to be unachievable in our society today, but in both Outcasts United and “Lost Boys” the characters are able to escape their home countries in search for a better existence. Developing the necessary skills to be prosperous in life, they are able to attain an education they never could have achieved in

Growing up in Jamaica I’ve always had a negative view of government itself. Because in my opinion the government was full of corruption and false promises. Government leaders were unethical and the state of the country is what brings out my distrust in them. Then after immigrating to the United States and living in the city of Aransas Pass I didn’t pay much attention the government local or federal it didn’t interest me because my opinion on government did not change.

Growing up in a society where women were treated as second class citizen, who are bounded by cultural norms, I have always had guilt tied to every decision I make for my betterment. This is primarily due to the fact that growing up in Southern Asia, many girls like me were taught to be obedient daughters and were told that we would also need to be complaisant housewives. My value and my family's honor is dependent upon how well I follow these rules I was born into, in a refugee camp in Nepal. When I was four, I lost my father to kidney failure. My mother and I lived cautiously in our bamboo hut. My mother worked everyday and I went to school everyday; She provided us with all the necessities needed to survive.

As a child, living in a developing country brought me closer to some of the stark realities of life. The existence of a village right across a posh locality as mine was a constant reminder of the presence of rampant inequality in the economy. Having seen child labor firsthand, I was made aware of the desperation, miserliness and suffering of the poor. A deep sense of pity would run through me whenever I would come across someone belonging to a less privileged section of the society. However, wanting to do more in the benefit of the impoverished, then, I could only sympathize.

Some of the world’s poorest countries, with some of the highest child labor and illiteracy rates lie in Sub Saharan Africa. People generally associate the region only with poor economic conditions and all of the social disorder that goes along with 3rd World Status. While some of this reputation is deserved, many people are also failing to see the vast potential for this part of the world. There are several factors that African governments should look into if they want to effectively and efficiently revamp this areas quality of life. One way to do so is by improving the more crucial aspects to healthy functioning region, for example, allowing children to possess their natural rights to a decent education. This could influence an increase

Growing up in a community that has at its heart the deepest forms of apathy, and the cruelty of selfishness and greed; I have had a close brush with the suffering and sad circumstances that cloud the lives of many in this ‘survival-of-the-fittest’ world, that runs-off after wealth leaving behind the weak to perish. I have seen children die of illnesses as malaria and dysentery that would have been taken care of at hospitals, simply because their parents for no fault of theirs are unable to meet the high prize of these hospitals; and on the other hand, the hospitals have managements with no sense of human sympathy. I have met brilliant children drop-out of school as early as the eighth-grade, simply because there were no schools in their community

When we attack poverty on many levels, bringing together aid and education, community and economic development, and bringing empowerment to individuals, women and children, then we can begin to see real change in the communities and society. However, society is strutted in such a way that not all