Child Poverty

Every human being should have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, too many children in the world today grow up without this chance, because they are denied their basic right to attend school. A way to end world poverty as we know it requires everyone to empower themselves to make positive choices and provide for themselves and their families. Mexico is the largest country in the world to deal with child poverty. Reasons for child poverty are individual condition, geography and political economy. To certain circumstances and characteristics of poor people in Mexico they lack the skills, intelligence, health and education to make them. Due to the lack of the communication and transportation, the government is unable to provide the country with potable water, affordable food, primary health care, and education because of the geographic. The economy itself is not accurate because the government doesn’t carry out enough policies to encourage successful development, therefore they cannot repay nor do loans.

As a child my husband dealt with poverty. My husband was raised with four younger siblings, making him the oldest with a single parent mother. My husband and his family grew up in a poor house with no heat and barely enough light in order to survive. His mother was on welfare getting about $600.00 a month raising five children on her own. As a child, my husband wore the same clothes at least twice each week, but didn’t take anything for granted including life. By the age of 11, he decided to work on a farm in order to help his mother. As he got older he found out that money was the key to everything (housing, clothes, food, shoes, etc.) By the age of 21, my husband mother died. My husband took it upon himself to raise his siblings. He went to school and worked 2 jobs to provide them a better life. To this day all four siblings graduated from high school. My husband passion, motivation and wisdom only made him stronger. Dealing with poverty he learned to appreciate life, because he knew his greatness would come if he believes.

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