Poverty: Causes, Effects & Solutions.

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Poverty is one of the serious problems which adversely affect the progress of humanity as a whole.

What poverty is: Poverty is the Negative Social Conditions you have such as substandard housing or homelessness, inadequate nutrition, food insecurity, inadequate child care, lack of access to health care, unsafe neighborhoods, or under-resourced schools. Poverty adversely impacts a country's overall progress. Approximately 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty below the $1.90 per day poverty line. Poverty makes you highly vulnerable, powerless and afraid. The poor whose rights and freedoms are restricted and are forced to live without support, on the sidelines, watching economic growth and prosperity pass them by. It appears that their dignity is assaulted daily and their lives are abundant in scarcity. Poverty is actually powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom. Poverty can affect the whole life span of the individual. The effects of poverty follow you from childhood into adulthood, causing chronic illness, lack of education and it adversely affects your  ability to work. 

What makes you poor: There are a lot of reasons behind poverty. It's nothing but the structural problem of society. You make the societal structure and you can also get it reshuffled if you work together. A cash oriented society, you developed is the root cause for all the evils. It does have direct links with violence, crimes and poor sanitation, wide spread in society. The Gender inequality, caste or class systems and marginalization based on race or tribal affiliations are nothing but economic and social inequalities which result in little or no access to the resources needed for your much better life. The human conflict or war is another causative factor, driving poverty today. The destruction of infrastructure and imminent danger to life cause people to flee. Small bouts of violence can cripple the communities which are struggling a lot. An underbuilt society always keeps many in hunger and malnutrition. If you don’t get enough food, you’ll lack the strength and energy to do the work. The first 1,000 days of a child’s life (from womb to world) are very important determining the child's future health and likelihood of staying out of poverty. A malnourished mother produces malnourished kids. Kids with Wasting (low weight for height) or Stunting (low height for age) are born. The Child Stunting, both physical and cognitive, can lead to a lifetime of impacts. A weak health system you have in your country makes you vulnerable to even the easily preventable or treatable diseases and it can be fatal especially for young children. When you have to travel far distances to clinics or pay huge amounts for the medicine, it drains the vulnerable households of money and assets. It appears that currently, more than 2 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home and this means that people collectively spend some 200 million hours every single day walking long distances to fetch water. That’s the precious time that could be used, working or getting a course of education to help secure a job later in life. The contaminated water can cause a lot of waterborne diseases as well, ranging from the chronic to the life-threatening ones. It appears that more than 2.3 billion of people live without sanitation and proper water infrastructure. Climatic changes like Drought, Flood, etc can also be a contributing factor to poverty as it can create more refugees. The popularization of expansive educational system, bias against girls' education, and the lack of proper infrastructure — from roads, bridges, and wells, to cables for light, cell phones, and the internet — can isolate communities living in rural areas. Living off the grid often means living without the ability to do things. Isolation always limits the opportunity to come up. The lack of proper actions both from the governmental and corporate sides is another possible factor 

How you can get over it:  The individual part: Life is definitely offers you the chance to build it the way you want. You are here, not to suffer. Try to build up your life in alignment with the core vibratory frequency of energy you have, in other words, pursue your passion. Build your life around your passion and monetize your passion and use it for the upliftment of society. You are here to enjoy your life and help others enjoy theirs. Everyone of you is blessed with some unique skills lying dormant inside. Dig them up and use them to be successful and make others successful. You start using your skills, your audience has already been waiting for you. Always remember that cooperation is the principle behind creation and that's the only one success mantra, you have. 

The collective part: A sustainable approach from the part of an individual, government and corporate world is 100% needed to alleviate poverty. New programs must be introduced to support people to gain the skills and capabilities through which they can find suitable jobs. Creating more jobs, offering at least a Living Wage with greater job security, opportunities for progression and Wage employment programs, Self-employment programs, Food security programs and Social security programs can be organized through the cooperation of wealthy individuals, governments and corporates. You have to cooperate and work together to have the next stage of your evolution where, as you have learned enough from the past, you have a new societal order in which every single one of you receives the basic living social benefits in the form of cash, goods and services. It's a society where education and medical care become absolutely free. When you develop such a life scenario, what happens is that everyone of you gets the chance to pursue their passion, which paves the way for more development and technological innovations. Instead of spending more on defensive mechanism and weaponry, you have to focus more on common welfare and mutual benefits. 

Get away from your Spiritual Poverty: Almost all problems you have right now are directly linked with spirituality. If you are spiritually aware, you tend to be more cooperative and collaborative. Spiritualism is your awareness about your true self. It's the knowledge that you are all one even though you share different bodies. Such an awareness makes you more service oriented. Love is actually your mutually beneficial service, wholeheartedly done. Non religious spiritual values must be incorporated in your academic process. It's your transformation from your nationality into spirituality where you act beyond the concept of nation, color, cash or gender. When you are more self centric and focused more on a life based on self service, you are getting spiritually poor and will wind up with higher entropy (Negative karma) to your soul formation. Actually speaking, there is no difference between you who are wealthy and the beggar you see outside. Everything is pure conscious energy trapped in different bodies and different forms. As you come to know that all things made out of iron differ only in name and form while the stuff of which all is made is iron, So through spiritual wisdom, you have to know that all of life is one. As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. Everything comes out of the same source. The poor, you meet are your own extensions in some other bodies. Practice love. Use your additional income to help your poor extensions. It's not actually the service you do, but your moral responsibility. And this is how you can be free from your spiritual as well as physical forms of poverty...