TERM 3 WEEK 8 BLOGGING TASK.

Can poverty ever be eradicated?

Write a response of at least 300 words and 2 content paragraphs, and include materials from both articles as well as your own knowledge and experience.

Poverty, in my opinion, can never be eradicated. Efforts to relieve poverty in poverty-stricken countries can only aim to ameliorate the situation, but curbing the problem, I feel, is range of impossibility.

In countries stricken with extreme poverty, such as Africa and Cambodia, help rendered by the United Nations assembly has not stopped since time immemorial. Yet, every time help is rendered in the form of financial aid, and also labour aid, we see the countries falling back into depression. Why is this so? I agree with Sarup's point of view; that it is only a vicious cycle. With aims of eradicating poverty in our minds, do we really know if what we are doing helps the country? Yes, we save lives by pouring financial aid into the country. But our efforts do not affect the following generation of people living in that country. When poverty has affected a country for such a long period of time, it is difficult to change the mindsets of citizens. They have learnt to accept the fact that they are poor and since most of them will not be affected by humanitarian efforts, they rarely do concern themselves with the idea that they can be saved from poverty by grace. With mindsets like these, it is impossible to completely eradicate poverty.

Also, I believe that the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. Its a rat race that never cedes. Due to the uneven income distribution, we cannot hope that all the poor people can manage to dig themselves out of this trench so deeply dug. Whereas people can associate with others passing into the different classes by chance or luck or pure inheritance, we should all be aware that this system is actually in dynamic equilibrium and the input and output are as defined by vice versa. People are selfish, its human nature. We cannot expect the rich to give without expecting to take. It is a cynical point of view, but, let's face it. Reality bites.