Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter.  However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.

The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way:

“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time.

Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways.  Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities.”

Poverty to me is a state of mind, it’s the lack of the very peace that is unmeasurable and that is without a price, it is far from what is and what is not. Poverty to me is deriving yourself of worthiness on the basis of the tangle able it is the very turmoil in your own soul that gives you sleepless nights.

The stigma on its own is however heavy enough to make one lack what’s important, measure self-worth and feel so defeated by the standards of which we see and interpret a better life. Communities year in year out keep strengthen this stigma. Social divisions and gaps between the rich and the poor keep on increasing.

Often comfortability makes us ignorant, to feel and think about others often we cannot see what our own actions do to others, and I stand guility.Often having more than what we should is misinterpreted for a deserved privilege.

What wrong is not poverty, what’s wrong the birth of a monster, that keeps growing in our young minds, the limits that we set as a result of  what can be and what cannot be, where one belongs and where not. Whoever told you that being poor is a sin? Who created a standard in which people should conform and be slaves to it? Being poor lies in the very being that sees no point in doing just for others, without applause.

Poverty is in fact not what one is or has it is in fact, a mind that cannot see beyond the realm of labelling people like based on their capacity and well-being. The stigma of poverty divided people even before race did.

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