Poverty Yesterday and Today

Poverty Yesterday and Today

By Ioana Doran 5 A
School 49, Bucharest

In the past people didn’t have money, clothes, homes, food and they didn’t have a family.
Now poor people don’t have what they need and some of them don’t have the possibility to work. For pooor children is the one that allow them to go to school and learn, although they want to. There are children who would like to go to school, but they can’t buy everything they need. So, they stay at home. They don’t go to school anymore, because they feel embarrassed.
There are some differences between what poverty meant in the past and what poverty means today. I think that the most important one is that now, unfortunately, few people want to help.
In the past people helped a lot, although they weren’ very rich.
Today not many people help, although they are rich. They have everything they need, but they are not willing to share.
For me, poverty also means being afraid, because homeless people live in the streets and many bad things can happen to them.

“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”
~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti