"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"
The queen of all the problems to manhood is POVERTY! Poverty is something which one sees everyday-roadside beggars, household maids, labourers, and street vendors.
Though people want to come out of the cob webs of poverty, its too difficult. If a person is poor his up coming generations and forefathers are generally the same too.
The condition of the Poor is appalling. Today I saw a video on you tube on people and Hunger. It contained some really thought provoking images which literally brought a lump in my throat.
The children were looking like skinned skeletons with eyes like that of a rat. They seemed to be made of paper. They were starved . One of them was trying to drink milk from a cow and the other was bathing in cow's urine. These images compelled me to think that even animal's life is better than a poor person's life.
Even death seems to be an easy option as compared to leading such a pathetic life.
On the way to my college, every day I see an old lady sitting on the stairs in the same old , torn saree and a bowl in which the passers by put a few coins sometimes.
In today's time when an average upper middle class or high class person can not even imagine his life without TV, designer clothes, A.C, posh restaurants, luxurious cars..These people are unable to get minimum basic nutrition or even clean clothes to wear.
Who is responsible for their plight? The Govt. ? The people themselves? Their fore fathers? We?
There is no precise answer but every citizen can do his bit to eradicate poverty. "Each One Teach One", its a simple concept but not that simple to follow, if every educated citizen teaches just one of the unfortunates, these situations can surely be improved.
We should or we must do their bit in charity , if not financially, then materially -our old clothes , toys, left over food , sometimes water is of no use for us but to the poor it can mean a lot!!
