You might be tempted to become comfortable with your financial status. This triggers in you the allusion that you can attend to most of your needs easily. On the contrary, most poor people wrongly look down on others for being poor.
This article enables you to discover the two poverty typologies with the right mindset.
1. Abject poverty: under this pathetic condition, one cannot properly take care of anybody. Persons in this category cannot provide for themselves and families even the very basic needs of life which are food clothes and shelter. Oftentimes, orphans and widows are susceptible to abject poverty due to the death of their breadwinners. Abject poverty poses alot of health, social and academic challenges to the affected individuals. By implication, children face malnutritional conditions like kwashiorkor, marasmus, beri beri and lots more. In the society, paupers are stigmatized. They dwell in inferiority and hardly feature in important societal decision. Politically, they are marginalized and at such, political posts are far from their reach. Furthermore, it's quite unfortunate that school system does not favor the paupers due to the high cost of education. Even if they can grab their basic education, tertiary level will be an uphill for them. In the long run, their chances of acquiring certification becomes very slim in the society.
It is not arguable the most people in the net of abject destitution easily succumb to evil in the society.
However, charity and governmental organizations can play major role in raising the hope of the less privileged through scholarship and empowerment skills. There are records of those who have escaped the ditch of poverty absolutism through determination and hardwork.
Notable among them is Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the ex-president of Nigeria ( 2010 - 2015).
✓ Relative poverty: Individuals under this category might never believe they are poor because they can actually provide for themselves, families and even enough to spare. However, the bitter truth is that everyone is under this category! Are you shocked?
What then is relative poverty? The term relative poverty means the level of one's possessions when compared to others.
The effect of relative poverty can be illustrated with the scenario of an African man who is considered wealthy in his continent. He can adequately afford the best education for his children in Africa but will hardly provide a percentage of their tuition and fees in Europe and America. At this point, I want to establish the fact that there is relative poverty between individuals, families, counties and continents.
In conclusion, no should be intimidated for being poor because we are all under relative poverty.
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