WORLD POVERTY-SCORE SHEET:
HUNGER:
On empty stomach
eight hundred
million
souls go to bed
each night,
on empty stomach
they wake up
every morning
without hope of any
meal to eat;
but for the
unfortunate
three million
children-
malnutrition-will
deny them
witnessing next
birthday,
their parents,
mostly, mothers
hunger-
shall certainly
reduce-
them to moving
corpses.
POOR HOMES AND
UNSANITARY
Living
Conditions:
In slums and
ghettoes
more than six
hundred million
individuals
live,
under conditions
far less human;
in homes without
clean water-
they dwell-
homes without
adequate ventilation,
houses without
electricity and fixtures,
homes lacking
basic human needs,
dilapidated
homes with fallen roofs.
Over half of
world’s population
live in remote
and isolated areas,
areas not
readily reached by roads,
places without
infrastructures to
sustain life;
places that may
technically
be regarded as
prisons,
unfortunate habitations
where dwellers
have become prisoners,
not by default
but by accident of birth.
SICKNESS AND
DISEASES-
effects on
women:
Sickness and
diseases have
become
un-welcome and
permanent
stay-in with bivouac
of humans for
ages,
for over one-and-half-billion
women with low
income or no job,
they account for
over half of
world sick
patients;
with little or
no dignity
death treat them
more than
male folks,
for
socio-cultural and
biological
reasons,
they are
considered inferior
to men.
Yearly, more
than three million
children die of
preventable diseases,
shots to
strengthen body immunity,
most parents
can’t afford;
every year, over
half-a-million
pregnant women
die of
child birth
related complications,
HIV/AIDS
continues to claim lives,
fifteen million
children had lost
their parents to
the disease.
Each year,
venereal, heart, cancer,
diabetes, and
mental illnesses
harvest
millions,
poverty and
ignorance
hamstring vast
majority on
medical
conditions that
could
be controlled,
if victims had
economic and social
powers.
Sadly, children
are orphaned,
live never to
have or to know
parents in a
continuous vicious
cycle.
LITERACY AND
EDUCATION:
Every year, more
than hundred million
children are
shut out of schools,
as more schools
are closed down
because of
global economic
downturn;
social
services-under which schools
fall suffer
tremendously-as cuts in
budget limit
services schools can
provide.
More worrisome
is the quality of
education and
its products-globally-
teacher-student
ratio keep declining,
higher education
in economically
prosperous lands
is becoming
a luxury and,
unaffordable in
developing economies.
Instead of being
oases of knowledge,
moral
development, and sound spiritual
training
grounds,
schools and
their managers have gone
into syncope,
leaving students
to their fate
as human society
keep reaping
rotten fruits
from abandonment
with deadly
consequences that may
threaten the
future of mankind.
STATUS OF SOCIAL
SERVICES:
Hospitals,
health, and medical
facilities have become
victims
of budget cuts
on social services
provided by
governments world over;
elderly,
children, women, and
people living
with disabilities are
getting reduced
assistance by the day,
standard of
living from where quality of
good life
emanates keep going down.
Globally,
workers are compelled to
work more jobs
under unfavorable
labor laws that
are barely different
from slavery;
today, half of
world’s population
live on $2.50
per day,
another billion
souls live in
extreme poverty
of less than-
$1.25 per day.
INTERNATIONAL
DIMENSION:
Globalization!
Globalization! Globalization!
Removal of
artificial and natural borders,
integration of
world economic order
into a single
powerful economic order
by multi and
trans-national corporations
through mergers,
acquisitions,
down and right
sizing and
international
market dominance
keep shrinking
economic powers
of world
workers.
Gender pay gap,
color lines pay,
pay by
specialization and knowledge
based on
locations now on the rise;
workers live
from hand-to-mouth,
more salaried
workers are now
destitute living
from
paycheck-to-paycheck,
as globally
economic condition
worsening.
Multi and
trans-national corporations,
International
organizations-governmental
non-governmental
have become
modern-day slave
owners,
as they run
slave camps across
the globe,
in the name of
commercial activities-
of demand and
supply.
Gains and
profits from masses’
everyday
misfortune creates
more wealth and
power for
the super-rich;
technology and
collapsed borders
they keep
maximizing to have
unfettered
access to man’s
collective
wealth.
WHAT THE WORLD
MUST KNOW:
The world must
know:
a child without
food and
other
necessities constitute
a crime against
human.
Let humanity
know:
women build
nations,
a nation will be
half-built or
remained
stagnant
when women have
no
access to
medical care,
have no food to
eat,
have no home to
raise their
children,
have no
education, and
are denied
economic power.
Let the world
know:
future of
mankind may be ruined
when children
are raised in slums or
ghettos,
moreover,
working ethics and
morals may be
compromised,
when workers are
underpaid and
unfairly
treated.
Therefore,
proclaim from
public squares,
declare from
rooftops,
advertise from
your windows,
pronounce from
agoras,
trumpet from the
theaters,
herald from on
the streets,
broadcast from
highways:
a little more
help-
a little plough
back to
the society by
everyone
will certainly
create an oasis of love,
belongingness,
and
unbroken bond of
brotherhood
everyone shall
be proud of.
[SILAS OLA ABAYOMI]
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