First hand encounter with poverty in Africa

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When poverty is mentioned in certain places, people take it with diverse views. The understanding of poverty has greatly been influenced by one's social height. To some, poverty means inability of one to own a vehicle or a decent home. It could mean one's inability to purchase a flight ticket; denial of one's desired comfort. The aforementioned perception is common among the privileged category of people. It does not capture the typical African definition of poverty.
Poverty to the African child has nothing to do with vehicles or palatial building. He does not clamor for flights or things like that. Poverty to him is in his inability to get immunized against common child-killer diseases. It is in his inability to take healthy foods that enhance growth and proper development. It is in the inability of thatched roofs to keep the rains away from him. The African child walks barefooted just like the picture below.

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The unbearably hot African soil leaves scars and burns in his feet during the day. The cold of the nights gives him pneumonia because he can't protect himself against the weather.
He wakes up at the break of every new day not sure of where his breakfast will come from. He treks some kilometers to an impoverished school hungry; always coming home to cry because of hunger, but there is nothing he can do.
It does not take laboratory test to discover his troubles. His major deficiencies are easily seen on his pale skin, his protruded stomach, his shriveled body, his oversized head resting on a thin neck.
This poverty, I believe is long overdue. It has killed and destroyed more lives than any known disease in history. An acceptable assumption could be that the ancestors fought a war against poverty , and it won. Today, the battle has set again. We are jointly going to decide the fate of the people under the torment of this monster. We may not change the world overnight, but we can always begin from somewhere. It could be as little as giving the poor child a footwear. Whichever way.
In a bid to suppress poverty, we have jointly launched Goldenyouthsfoundation (goldenyouthsfoundation.org). The sole aim is to put a smile on the faces of these victims of poverty.
I have a strong believe that we can jointly put a smile on the face of the hopeless child. We can give him a taste of quality education, grant him the privilege of having a tasty meal. We can as well kick away his constant companion - hunger. Together we can!