What means to live in poverty?

Se Jin Lee March 28 2010

What means to live in poverty?

Poverty is one of global issues in the world. There are 1.4 bilon people who lives in poverty in the world. Poverty is when you don't have enough money to get enough food, send children to school, have house, water and save money(basic needs).

Meaning of living in poverty is being the victim of world. Once you live in poverty for long time, you will get into poverty traps which makes you think that you will be in poverty forever. After getting into poverty traps, you will start to think in short term planning like bollowing money from people and sending children as slaves. And after all the situation won't get better, possibly it would get worse.

Living in poverty is a very serious problem, since the number is very big and it's very hard to fix. I could only think of three things that could possibily make this problem better. The country and government can provide jobs for the people in poverty, people who are not in poverty can donate money for food and cloth and people can make more groups like the world bank.

What are global issues?

To me, Global Issues are problems that all people in the world is facing right now. By solving this problems, the world will become much better place for everyone, but to solve this problems it takes time and many people's participation. It doesn't mean that it takes 1000 years to fix them. In my opinion, if we keep working on them, if many groups like world bank are created and if all people and kids around the world get education and learn about what global issues are. Global issues can all be fixed by few 10 years.

One of SRLs that fits to global issues is Live ethically, because

We are becoming more aware and being responsible about behavior and environment

The environment is not just plants or animals but also social environment as well and even the economy.

This wordle, I represented what I thought about Global Issues.

Third World Farmer reflection

The link for this game is www.3rdworldfarmer.com

In Global issues class, we played the game, called 'Third World Farmer'. This game is a simulation game which you play as a farmer with your family and try to make money and achieve better goals in future in game.

There are many ways of getting money in this game, but they're divided into 2 groups. There are short terms planning like having to sell your children. Short term planning might be affective and good at first, but it soon made whole family sick or in poverty. There are long terms planning like having to educate your children. Long term planning might cost more money than short term planning, but later on, you will soon get rich and be successful with the game. One of SLR's that best fits to this game is reason critically, because as mentioned in this paragraph, you have to do every plan thinking of future and if it's good.

After playing this game, I learned how diffult is to get out of poverty and how important long term planning is.

Global Issue

What is global issue?
- Global issues are problems that all the world is facing in these days, which needs to be fixed otherwise people will suffer.

Why should I care about it?
- Because Global issues are often very serious problems that if not everyone cares about it, it will never end. And everyone has responsiblity to take care of our generations.