underprivileged childrenUnderprivileged Children
3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day. Out of 2.2 billion children in the world, 1 billion live in poverty. 72 million children of primary school age did not attend school in 2005. 25000 underprivileged children die each day due to poverty. (GlobalIssues.org)
 Underprivileged children are effected in many areas of life With the wealth of our United States, with our material comforts of Starbucks, McDonalds, and MTV, sometimes it can be difficult to imagine millions of underprivileged children sleeping on cardboard boxes with eating nothing but scraps. But sometimes you turn on the television, perhaps to CNN, to Fox, to the Discovery Channel, and sometimes you see a special documentary on the extreme levels of poverty in Haiti, Chad, Afghanistan. Sometimes you see underprivileged children without clothes, without families; underprivileged children who haven’t eaten in days, maybe weeks; underprivileged children who have never seen the inside of a school. And perhaps sometimes you wonder what you can do to help. The desire to help is fundamentally human emotion, as a species we are alone in the propensity to aid unfamiliar faces, unknown strangers. To facilitate, to act upon these desires, we human beings have developed nonprofit foundations, organizations, volunteerships to help, to mitigate these difficult stresses that those less fortunate are forced to endure. To organize our efforts we band together to offer greater contributions to even greater causes. By gathering unilateral support, we can reach even the loftiest of goals through fellow contributions. But why should we work for this? What could be the reason explaining why we are giving money away to others? |
