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Learning Activity 2 Part 3

19 Mar 2021, 16:16 Publicly Viewable

Benefits of poverty for the individual

1.You Know How to Work Hard

Usually a poor person knows how to do one or more manual labor job and know what it takes..yes a rich person might work longer hours but it's more of talking with clients or using their electronic to do their work.

2.Easy to manage finances 

When you are poor and don't make a lot of money, it is more easy to know, what you have, where it is and what to do with it as long as you learn how to always stick to your budget.

3.You get to be closer to your family 

As you do not have much to do, this will create a space for you to spend time with your children and family and will tighten the bond that the family as. Poor have more to do for their family to survive, as they look out for their old parents and at the same time look for the younger generation and this requires team work and will mostly tighten the connections of the family.

4.You value the little you have.

Many people of come out of poverty know what it means to be poor and the struggle people face, as a result this makes you value a lot of things it might be a new shoe that you have wanted for the past 2 years or it could be a job, this is because you know what little you have now, might get easily lost, so this gives you a reason to value it more.

BENEFITS OF POVERTY FOR THE COMMUNITY 

1.Health relationship between community members.

This creates a healthy relationship as the community members spend more time with each other and get to know each other more and even share information about what job opportunities are there.

2.Sharing of resources 

Usually in poor communities most of the resources that are found there, people in that community share, which means that people can share what they have rather than individuals have to suffer because they do not have something specific that they need to survive with, so when they share resources it becames easy.

3.Learning of skills

Many people are naturally talented and have many skills especially labor skills. These skills that are being taught by their fathers or somewhere else helps them a lot, as they can not afford to call an electrician who went to school, so these are basic skills that they have to learn.

4.Less crime and unity

In many communities that are facing povertymovies hardly rare that you hear that people have stolen from one of their people because they do not have valuable things that they can transform their lives or generate a lot of money for them, instead they spend most of the time with each other, looking for each other and whenever there is a break in that's when you'll see the community get to gather to track down the person or people in charge of the break in.