The Geekothon

For Blog Action Day 2008:

When do we say that a person is in poverty? When do we say that one is not in poverty? These are the questions that we have to tackle. How do some people make ends meet on a meager salary? How can rich people sleep at night knowing they can help alleviate the suffering of poor people? Would poor people like dole outs? In a world filled with trouble would people still care? How can we really eliminate global poverty?

There is a thin line between a long term and a short term solution. Here in the Philippines, the poor have been exploited by almost all politician in their pursuit of office. I wont be surprised if the same things are happening in other countries. Rich people do charitable works but do they do it for tax exemptions or do they really give a damn? The real solution was written in the bible; ” do not feed a man fish but teach him how to fish”. We have all read micro financing and the like to help poor people but is that enough? The solution is not on business but on being able to sustain an income and being self sufficient in terms of giving one’s family 3 decent meals a day and a roof upon their head. Which leads us to the problem of education, poverty hinders a person to have an education, a poor education leads to a person not getting a decent job which in turn he gets poorer. Then there is overpopulation in this world, people with money are concentrated on a select few people of the population whilst the poor demographic spreads like wild fire throughout the map.

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