The Face of Poverty

Poverty makes you humble and and actually demeans you!!! Makes you feel that you are lesser than other human beings!!

Poverty condems you to incredible suffering more than what the best writers on poverty can ever imagine and express. Poverty has made the poor lose their faces and made everybody else think that they are better than the poor. Of course, others could be better than the poor because they are leaving a better life, have better access to schools, medication, employment, better governance and better working systems.

Poverty is more than the ugly pictures of starvation, disease outbreaks and the hopelessness that is in our communities. It is a death that the poor experience when they are still alive. It is a feeling that you have no control over your own life and your own self.

And that is why we must devise strategies to resurrect the poor and give them some reason to hope, to rise a new each day and to begin feeling that they can make important decisions about themselves!!

As can be seen from the feelings expressed above, an introduction of social entrepreneurship must address the issue of the death of the poor. It must give them a voice and must enable them to at last develop the ability to be self confident. In essence be of service, advocate for and accompanying the poor.