what are the benefits of poverty for the individual and the community?

Poverty is a national issue that South Africa is facing and seriously affects the individuals. Poverty affects the individual in a negative way as it does not only affect the life of a person, but it threatens it. Firstly It is affecting many individuals from poor backgrounds such as people that have low self -esteem which end up messing up their entire future life. poverty even contribute to recycling as homeless people searching in the streets for something to recycle as it benefits within individual and community as a whole. Therefore, taking to consideration the family struggle with chronic food security hunger and malnutrition.  When families don't have food their health and livelihood suffers, trapping them in vicious cycle that affect one generation after another