What it Means to Live in Poverty

What does it mean to live in poverty? What does it mean to not have the simple things that you or I have? I will tell you what it means. It means not having the basic needs to survive; water, food, shelter and sanitation. If you do not have those, what else can you have. If you do not have those needs then you cannot possibly live a good life. You will always be working to survive and have no room in your head to think long term. You might have to give up things you wouldn't normally give up to survive, such as sell your children to get enough money for just a few months. You could ask for money, but you could get an extreme interest rate which you may never be able to pay back so you will always have this huge weight on your shoulders. I suppose you already know this but, poverty's tough. And people take advantage of poverty and send them to work on cheap rates and the poor can't do anything about it. That is why we need to help and that is why the U.N. have vowed to end poverty by 2015.