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Teja, 9, Poverty

Tilen, 6, Poverty

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Teja, 9, Poverty

The concept of povety, what does this mean to us? On such occasions we usually think about people, who can't live in dignity.
Poverty also means children, who are homeless and hungry wandering with a desire to survive. However, we aren't talking only of material poverty, many people long for love. How will they feel the solidarity and motherhood, if they had never experienced them? In difficult moments they couldn't trust their mother and father.
Even the homeless we sometimes think, that they are fake. But do we think about them, where are they at nights, when we get back to our warm homes? They sleep in the back streets or on benches in parks. It seems disgusting to us, but this is their only solution. But we never think that this can happen to us too.
In Africa, orphans are left to themselves. Barely gatherings, already protect their sisters and brothers. Happy, if they have only one meal in day. The possibility to go to school, isn't given to anyone. Large families are struggling for days to earn a cup of rice. Although a large deficiency they encourage. Poverty requires a high tax. People in desperation steal just to get to jail, because they get a warm meal there.
Taking all of this, imagine how much food we have, abundance, love now when millions of people are waiting for our goodness. Let us have at least bit of compassion.We mustn`t forget that we can be in their place tomorrow.

Teja, 9. a
Osnovna šola, Pivka / Slovenia

Tilen, 6, Poverty

I think, there is a lot of poverty nowadays. For me this mean that people don't have food, clothes and home. In the past there were a lot of poor people too. Our ancestors lived in poverty, beacuse life in past was less luxurious than today. However, they fought for bread. Today poverty is more painful beacuse a lot of people have good life. Parents want to make their children's life easier (with clothes, food, tehnical things, …). We help people in distress quite a lot. Organizations like Karitas and Red Cross take care of this. Different events for raising money are organized. TV shows help too. In the past there was more help. We hope, that if one day we need help, others will help us too.

Tilen, 6. a
Osnovna šola, Pivka / Slovenia

More thoughts and pictures about poverty

Ana: Poverty means that people don't have money for food and school supplies.

Nika: Poverty is horrible. It means that you have no home, food and clothes.

Patrik: Poverty is bad. You can't afford anything special, you only have one thing.

Katarina: Poverty means that people have no home, they don't have enough money to buy food and they beg in the streets.

Matej F.: Poverty means that you don't have money, food and water.

Pictures by: Kristjan D., Maja, Paulina, Kristjan K.
Osnovna šola, Pivka / Slovenia