"Poverty: A Constant Reality" Top 5 Page for this destination India Favorite Tip by Hmmmm

Favorite thing: Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not being able to go to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom. Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape.

Poverty is probably one of the most urgent problems facing our world today. 320 million people are living below the poverty line in India today. Most of the poverty in India is man-made because India procduces enough food. One third of world's poor children are in India. With a population of a Billion and growing, Indian children, especially those growing up on the streets of India encounter a bleak future.

Whenever you can give to some organisations, there are many that work to better the life of some of India's Children. The picture here is of a hospice in Varanasi, that houses many sick children in appauling conditions. A little bit of money can go a long way in place slike this.