The socio-economic class between the rich and the poor will continue to divide as long as the so-called poor people refuse to see the boundless opportunity around them, but would rather prefer to see themselves as poor and wretched, while the “rich-ards” virtually are getting richer everyday. Whatever may have been said against the gospel of prosperity, the fact still remains that, “people who don’t see it to prosper will no matter what, end up proper paupers”. Your prospects can actually determine your prosperity (Prov. 10:28)
You have no right to be poor. Poverty is not your birthright. Rather, it is a violation of your fundamental human right to the basic necessities and luxuries of a normal human life. Wake up to reality.
What is poverty?
Poverty can be referred to as a state of being poor and inferior. The pioneers in the study of poverty defined poverty as a situation where the income of an individual is insufficient to obtain to obtain a minimum necessity for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency. Poverty implies that the standard of living is considerably lower than the acceptable norm. However, this lower level of living standard may be different for different countries or the same for the same countries at different times.
Poverty is hunger and not knowing where your next meal is coming from, poverty is not having a roof over your head and having nowhere to go. Poverty is being sick not being able to see a doctor. It is death of a child from a preventable illness because you are unable to pay for medications or clean water. Poverty is not being able to go to school to read and write, poverty is being unemployed and having little or no chance of getting a decent job, even if there are any because you have no basic vocational training or skill set. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom with no hope of change or a future. Poverty is making you live one day at a time.
Poverty is more recognized than defined hence, it is difficult to give an acceptable definition universally. It is a multi-dimensional, socio-economic and cultural situation that transcends economic description. It is a concept that has defied universally accepted and objective definition or assessment because it is only an expression of life situation but also equally a state of mind and perception of self in a complex web of social relations.
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