Christian Teachings About Treating People Less Fortunate Than Themselves

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Christian Teachings About Treating People Less Fortunate Than Themselves

The world is divided into two sections, these are both given names.

One is the Rich North; the people who live in this area have a good

standard of living and a prosperous life. The other is the Poor South;

the people who live here do not have a very good standard of living,

they suffer greatly due to lack of vital resources needed to stay

alive. Why is this though? Well there is more than one reason that the

Poor South became a place of poverty and low standards of living and

that the Rich North did not follow the same patter, instead became the

opposite. One of the main causes of poverty in the Poor South is due

to the ever increasing population, the people would be able to share

the food more equally and have a lot more if they did not have so many

children; as however there is no state pension they need to insure

they can survive and have enough food for when they get older. This is

why they have more children. Hunger and thirst is also a big factor as

they do not get the right amount of vitamins and so therefore are more

vulnerable to disease, even though the EU have enough food to give

them all they would need, nobody wants to pay for this. Other causes

of poverty are Debt as many countries owe money to other countries

through devastations etc, Wars and conflicts between two countries

where they put all there money into making weapons and many people

will become homeless and through natural disasters people become

homeless.

The Brandt report was produced in 1980 by Willy Brandt, former

chancellor of West Germany. In this report were put documents on the

difference of the Rich and Poor. It was the first of its kind as it

looked in detail at the extent of the problem on how the country first

struck poverty. The report was very important as it was the first to

look at the causes of poverty; it set out the things that needed to

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