I think I know what poverty is until someone asks me. I

I think I know what poverty is until someone asks me. I've never personally experienced poverty in my life to. The closest I came to it was the ghetto Montego Bay in Jamaica and among some of the Native American population in the United States. Those are very very poor. I've seen poverty, but it is impossible for someone who has never been poor to explain it. Poverty is often described with statistics: a people) live in abject poverty on $ 1 per day; b) People in extreme poverty live on $ 2 per day; c) poor nations have little or with no potable water, electricity, sewage systems, red total health services, security, housing. But what does this mean in reality? Numbers can not really address what it feels like to be poor, really poor. Words can not explain what parents experience emotional when economic red total / political circumstances make it impossible for them to live up to the responsibility of providing for the basic needs of children. The coldness of objective reality can not express center a wide river of garbage all raw human waste and displaced imperceptibly, like a serpent, through a town! Reflecting on Plato's allegory of the cave. In a dark cave, shackled prisoners sit with their backs against a wall raised up by themselves can move to the right or on the left. Prisoners were in this position in their entire lives. Behind the wall is up, there is a small fire in kind that casts light into the cave. Above and behind the prisoners, animals and people that cross on the wall is raised as if moving on a bridge. Shadows red total of people and animals than to throw on the wall directly opposite the prisoners shackled. The acoustics of the cave makes it appear as if the sounds of those passing by on the wall are made up from the shadows. Prisoners shackled come to believe that they are shady real objects, and the prisoners heard the sound coming from the wall in front of them are held by true shadows. This fact is the prisoners'. One unshackles captive himself and finds its way up and out of the cave. Come out into the bright red total light, escapee believes it has made a big mistake because sunlight is so bright that it was, he can not see anything at all. Soon, however, his eyes adjust to the light and started seeing shadows of things. It believes that his sight was restored for shade that formed in his world of reality into the cave. Some time later, it happens on a pond, and, gazing at the water, saw the reflection of his. He suddenly red total realized that he had a false perception of reality. Thoughts of things are facts and not shadowy And he requires that true, animals and other objects and the sounds they make. He comes to recognize that neither shadow nor reflection are facts, but it is true that animals and objects are real. Sense in fact been turned upside down. When someone asks for definition of poverty, the answer is Haiti. Wood for Haiti provides an opportunity for Haitian can unshackle themselves in knots tight poverty. Haitian people find their way out of the darkness and suitable shelter and work, a beacon will shine on Haiti and blessed him with a new reality. Once out of the cave's destitution, will never going back. Once the country "build back better," to quote former President Clinton, kindness, opportunities and new ways of being will become the new reality red total .... a co new condition.
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