What can we do?

Poverty & Child Labour

The possible solutions for poverty clearly depend on what is chiefly causing it, and this can clearly vary with time and with place.

Currently the main solutions for poverty are government help for the most critical areas and world charities that are continuously working to help these poverty stricken areas as much as physically possible.

The major decisions that need to be prioritised are where the help is most needed and what the donations need to be spent on. Currently these priorities are:

In poorer countries:

• Improving supplies of clean water, to reduce time spent gathering often foul water and reduce illness caused by foul water supplies.
• Improving the supply of accessible, affordable health care information and services, to reduce the vulnerability to disease of children and the elderly especially.
• Improving the training and equipment of farmers in poor countries related to agriculture and natural resource management, to help increase crop yields and conserve the environment.

In richer countries

• Improving the quality of education for poor children and education opportunities and incentives.
• Improving opportunities and incentives for poor young females to have children only when they can assure their well-being.
• Improving work opportunities and incentives for the poor so they can provide well for themselves and their families.
• For those of us in Richer countries, we have an obligation as citizens of this planet to be careful when choosing manufactured goods and ask questions of producers and suppliers about the origin of their products and the effects on People and the Environment in their manufacture.

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