School 49 Bucharest
Poverty means not having the means for basic human needs (for example, food, water, clothes, shelter).
In the past, especially before the industrial revolution, there were many poor people around the world. The poor had no land, no animals, and so they could not live a decent life. The poor families couldn’t afford to let their children go to school. They didn’t have clean water, health care and many of them got sick. The church used to help poor people in the past. Sometimes the rich also helped those who were in need.
After the wars, poverty spread in a lot of countries, because the economy was down.
Today, poverty is usually associated with not having a job or not having enough money to afford decent conditions for living. Some do not have access to information or to education. In many parts of the world there are people who still have little food, no health care, no clean water.
Today there are more social institutions that take care of those in need. The unemployed receive an unemployment income, there are shelters for people that don’t have a house, there are canteens for the poor, volunteers who take care of the health and education of the poor.
In Romania there are poor people especially in the country-side. Many peasants leave in very poor conditions: they have no running water, no health care, no means to work their land. Many poor children abandon school. In the cities, the unemployed and homeless are given more support.
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