Friday, 8 February 2013

Poverty in India and Pakistan

India (from the video we watched) :

Purpose: To help the less fortunate physically by feeding them and emotionally by loving and caring for them.

Claims: The narrator in the video claims that he saw a man eating his own excreta which made him rethink about his life, leave his job and help the poor.

Agree: I agree with the narrator's argument that caste system should not stop you from helping the people who need your support.

I think it is telling a story which made us relate to the situation.

Pakistan:

Important statistics: 58% of the people are food deprived, 30% suffer from acute symptoms of hunger, 72% of the people in the southern province are food deprived, 63% of people in the south-west province are food deprived, it is the 6th most populated country in the world, 20% of the people earn 6.2% of the country's total income.

They prioritize food over everything else.

Result of poverty: hunger, schools are unaffordable, malnutrition and low quality of diet.

Causes: Natural disasters, very high population and rising unemployment.

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