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. So poverty is a call to action – for the poor and the wealthy alike – a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and protection from violence.

Unfortunately, poverty is often an invisible problem. The voices of the poor are seldom heard. And what makes me feel like writing about poverty is the unwillingness of our society to deal with this

Together all these disadvantages not only hold poor people down, they make them vulnerable to losing even what they have. There is usually nothing to prevent them from falling into the abyss. And when they do fall there is often nobody waiting to catch them in the bottom. And it’s the criminality of it all – even wild animals are capable of fending for themselves but a person saddled with poverty isn’t able to. Hasn’t the society been designed to protect individuals? Didn’t we get beyond merely eating and breading and move to what is called ‘human civilization’?

Physical health, strength and appearance are of great importance to the poor. The body is poor people’s main asset, but one with no insurance. If it deteriorates, hunger and destitution hover at the doorstep. Shortage of food and sickness not only cause pain, they weaken and devalue the asset, make a person highly vulnerable. Illness can plunge a household into destitution. Anguish and grief

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, poor people, freedom choice action, human existence, choice action, everyday life, action â€, freedom choice, makes life,