Benefits of poverty on Individual:
1. One can learn new skills with the amount of time that they have while at home.
2. One can tap into their creative side ans become creative.
3. One can become even more motivated, driven and determined to make their dreams come true
4. One will learn ways of handling finance and will gain spending discipline.
5. One will get to spend more time with their loved ones.

Benefits of poverty on community:
1. Members of the community learn how to share the little resources that they have, which builds onto unity.
2. Community contributes to recycling.
3. The rich can employ the poor to do domestic work and hard labour.
4. The poor can receive more donations and funds.