Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Will Poverty be Solved?

Will Poverty Be Solved?
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Will Poverty Be Solved?
It’s the end of the day again. Your stomach is churning. Having only eaten stale bread and drank a few drops of water yet, you have no choice but you have to sleep it off. Tomorrow might give you a hot good meal but you can only dream as you do not have a penny on your pocket. Some good-hearted soul might come to your rescue, but you just shrugged it off, only tomorrow knows. On top of this, the weather is cold. You only have one a thin blanket and one leather jacket not enough to provide warmth. At least you also still have battered shoes and wooly old socks which could at least add to the little warmth you desperately need a lot. Your bed of the night is at least three layers of carton you diligently have picked up from the trash and nestled at your usual spot under the bridge. At least the bridge would cover you from any drizzle that might come in the middle of the autumn night. You just hope the cold would not be too harsh to give you a frostbite because that would hurt big time. As you do not have money, having a frostbite would be a big problem as doctor’s fee and hospital bills are expensive. Good thing your buddy Sam who also had lain his bed cartons a few feet near yours had a little fire going. He might have been luckier than you in begging money to be able to light a fire this evening. At least he shares that warmth so frostbite might not be a problem tonight. The noise from the passing vehicles above had minimized. The night is deepening. It is time to sleep. Tomorrow might be better…The narrative above is a common story that is relatable to a lot of homeless people where according to the 2017 annual report revealed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development had risen to the count of around 554,000 people all over the country which has increased to 1% from the 2016 report (Weber and Mulvihill, 2017). On the other hand, a data presented by Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser, in our World in Data website showed that out of a population of 100,000, there are 216.77 people in France that are homeless, 177.1 in the US, 155. 72 in Chile, 78.32 in Ireland, 49.38 in Spain, and 20.19 in Portugal. These just 5 Countries out of the 35 which are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Ortiz-Espina and Roser, 2018). The homeless people are mostly hungry for they can only managed to have at least one meal a day and sometimes even without. They also do not have houses to give them shelter and protection from the coldness or hotness of the weather. Most of the them do not have jobs to sustain themselves and depends only on the alms given by people when they beg. Some of them could be employed yet have salaries that are not enough for them to rent a house or sustain most of their needs. This could also be because they also have no or little education to carry around for them to get better paying jobs. Access to medication and hospitalization is also difficult. Their hygiene can also be compromised as they do not have access to water and sanitation. With these in mind, we could say homelessness is one way to indicate poverty. Poverty is generally defined as being in a situation having none or a few goods, money ...