Hunger Is A Moral And Humanitarian Crisis

Poverty levels in South America are also very high. Woman in rural areas in South America are make up a big amount of the poorest of the poor (IFAD, 2009). The poorest people are the “Indigenous peasant communities in remote mountain areas in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador” (IFAD, 2009). Recent economic crisis has led to

Families who reside in small agricultural villages in Jinotega, Nicaragua face an abundance of issues and struggles. Many families experience losses of loved ones from lack of clean and fresh resources and face many hardships throughout their everyday life. Nicaraguans experience a lack of fresh water, technology, and are forced to rely on the land, creating a difficult life filled with an abundance of hard work. The lack of freshwater, technology, and need to rely on the land contributes greatly to the country’s poverty. The signs of poverty are everywhere, especially in small farming communities such as Puertas Azules. Poverty, in Nicaragua, manifests itself through the poor living conditions and the shortage of everyday necessities. At first, by looking at the beautiful scenery of Nicaragua, it seems like a tropical paradise, but in reality living here creates a difficult lifestyle filled with many hardships.

As of 2011 information released by the U.S. Census Bureau, 15% of people in the United States live in hardship, more than 46 million individuals live without necessities in America. Compared with the poorest nations on the planet, the destitution rate in the U.S. is moderately humble. In a few nations, the impoverishment rate is more than five times the United States. In Haiti, the most astounding on the planet, 77% of inhabitants live in destitution. Education and proficiency rates are especially low in these nations. (Hess and Weigley 2012)

One dollar and less. That's how much over 50% of people live on everyday in rural Guatemala. The average person in the United States spends about $94 a day as a consumer, so how is it possible for people in extreme poverty to survive on such a miniscule fraction of what the average American citizen does? These people are incredibly brave and make numerous sacrifices to survive on the money they do. These sacrifices may include not eating, no electricity, having to settle for less than the ideal, and innumerable more. These people were born into poverty and could do so much more in life if they had the chance to. So what can be done to help these valiant individuals? There are so many effective solutions that aren't being recognized which could

Imagine living without all the necessities for sophisticated life; no toothbrushes, no showers, no soft, fluffy beds. It isn’t pretty, is it? Well, projects to better the people of Honduras can be funded to give them the quality that humans deserve to make a living. For example, the average annual income of families of Honduras is less than six hundred dollars. Even government funded schools most children can’t afford to go to because of the cost of uniforms and school supplies.

Poverty is a major issue that many Hondurans are faced with each and everyday. In 2002, 77.3%

Growing up as a middle class American, I never fully understood the significance of having clean water to drink, access to healthcare, and education. Many undeveloped countries do not have the resources to provide a regulated standard of living. In countries like Guatemala, up to 75 percent of the population live below the poverty line. Most of these residents live in rural, mountainous areas.

This is a greater concern in world as sectors such as Africa, where poverty has roughly doubled in recent years. Consequently, many of the extreme poverty rates where based on a $1.25 purchasing power a day cut off. If this number is adjusted in 2005 to just $2.00 a day the rate of people living in extreme poverty jumps to 51% (David Moss, 2011). These numbers show that billions of people are unable provide themselves with basics like food, clothing, or shelter. This is a serious problem as these are people who have potential are being left in poverty that kills. At the very least income inequality leaves people with basic necessities with a chance to

Since Economic growth lifted some people out of poverty, poverty has been one of the major issues in Latin America and still continues to remain an issue after the region had more middle class people than poor people for the first time in 2010. In a recent discovery, one out of five Latin Americans never left poverty, limiting those people with scarce income opportunities. Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile are considered having the lowest percentage of chronic poverty, marking around 10 percent of their population; while chronic poverty in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala ranged from 37 percent in Nicaragua to 50 percent in Guatemala. From the south of Brazil, chronic poverty in Santa is around 5 percent, making it the best performing country

Poverty is high in rural areas, especially within the indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples tend to be more likely to live in poverty and hunger rather than other Guatemalans. Seventy percent of indigenous children under age five are stunted due to malnutrition as opposed to 36% of non-indigenous children. An important food staple for them is the tortilla, however, its price has increased over 66% up until 2004. Many of the poor also do not have access to fertile soil like the wealthy, which could also contributes to not being able to feed their families sufficiently. It has been shown that in Guatemala, the less farming land one owns, the more likely their family is to become malnutritioned (Zieglar, Golay, Mahon & Way 2011:237). This may help to explain why my parents didn’t come into contact as much with poor, malnutritioned people. They only ever visited the urbanized Guatemala City, meaning less poor minorities than in more rural locations.

Poverty is not a simple issue. There is no universal response to it. Latin America is among the poorest of the poor. Most of its population lives in absolute poverty. Poverty is a structural problem in Latin America. Over the past three decades, there have been multiple different options offered to the poor of Latin America to better their lives. To name a few, immigration, drug gangs, informal work, and conditional cash transfers have been presented to them. The last of those four, conditional cash transfers, is the one that gives poor Latin Americans the best hope for a better life.

The wealth in El Salvador is held by a small minority of the population who made their money from coffee and sugar and have now diversified into finance and commerce. Land reforms and property redistribution in the 1980s improved the situation for many small farmers and peasants, but there is still a substantial divide between the rich and the poor. According to a report from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), El Salvador's per capita income is the fifth lowest in the Western Hemisphere (when adjusted to reflect the cost of living).

Poverty, or the inability to afford basic human needs, is an issue that is spread worldwide. There are people everywhere who cannot afford shelter, food, healthcare, or education. It seems easy enough to ignore the bum asking for change on the street, but it becomes near impossible in regions where whole families are begging on the street. This rings true in Latin America and it is extremely frustrating to see social inequality this extreme. This essay will examine how much poverty exists in Latin America, why the amount of poverty is so disproportionate and what can possibly be done to alleviate the amount of poverty in these countries.

Sarah Junkin Woodard presented a seminar on the difficulties concerning the Nicaraguan people and the daily struggles they must overcome in order to survive within their environment. Currently, Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America after Haiti. Almost half of the people in Nicaragua live in rural areas where most struggle to survive on 2 United States dollars per day. Despite these horrible conditions, there is hope in this region. Overall poverty rates in Nicaragua have decreased in recent years, but natural disasters and distortions within the international market have led to an increase in poverty within various regions of Nicaragua. Due to these circumstances, more than 90% of people live on less than 2 United States Dollars per day. The individuals who are most susceptible to these conditions include small-scale farmers, landless farm workers, and their families.

The poverty level in the U.S. is normally based on annual income figures. In 1995, a family was identified as poor if their income equaled $15,569. Adjustments, however, vary with inflation and family size. In short, by current U.S. standards, many poor people elsewhere in the world would be living near or in absolute poverty, surviving on just over $200-$500 per year (Funk & Wagnall 1).