Article on Poverty

Facts about Poverty ~

-more than 80% of humanity lives in poverty.

-25000 children in the world die of poverty.

-28 percent children in developing countries are underweighted

-nearly a billion people who entered the 21st century are unable to read or sign their names.

-people have to scavenge for trash to sell to survive.

-children with illness don't have to money to get it cured

-people have to starve if they could not find food or things to sell

-children were unable to go to school

-Poor people live in mountains of trash

-the water is dirty

-flies are everywhere

-kittens were eaten alive by maggots and their mother could not do anything

-people died in landslides in the dumpsite.