Nowadays, there are lots and lots of people suffering from poverty all over the world. The gap between the rich and the poor is still increasing. Day by day, the rich become richer and richer, while the poor become poorer and poorer. The situation now is very serious. Well, there is a hot wire. In the middle of February, the government of George Bush Junior made a plan that from now on, 50 percent of the money, which World Band would send to the poor countries, would be just direct help instead of loan. That is a good idea. Poor countries and poor people really need developed countries' help.
The population of the poor doesn't decrease. Actually, it is still increasing, more or less. Population of developing countries is growing very fast. In the year 2025, there will be two billion more people in developing countries, while 90 percent of these people will be poor and will just live in gutters. At present Most of these people live in South Asia, South Africa, East Asia, Latin America and Caribbean Sea. And there have been about three billion people who are very very poor in the world. To make matter worse, more than 50 percent of these poor people are women and children.
The situation of the poor is still too bad. Each of these three billion poor people has less than two US dollars for one day. And for the poorest 1.2 billion people, it's only one US dollar. Maybe. it's less than one. These are explaining that the poor is need education. Because of their population problems makes all the poor without get education. For example, "A country like Tchad, with a population of almost 3 millions, has only 140 people with a higher education. Nor is there much hope that this situation might change rapidly -even if the present ambitious plans succeed in increasing the number of university students to 250,000 by 1980, it will still mean that only 1.5% of Africans will have access to higher education.
