Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Nearly 44 percent of the population in the country lives on less than $2 a day (Bradshaw and Linneker 150). Most of the poverty in this country exists in rural areas where 43 percent of the population lives. The majority of the people in rural areas strive to live on just over $1 a day. With limited schools and job opportunities, most families in the rural areas rely on farming to earn their livelihood. Recently, the world bank warned that poverty is still rampant in Nicaragua and that the nation remains one of the undeveloped countries in Latin America as people struggle to access essential services daily. With approximately 6.1 million people in a land of 121,000 square kilometers, Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Latin American after Haiti (Lakhani 1). The poverty in this country has brought about poor health conditions. Some deadly diseases such as HIV and AIDS have been a big issue in most parts of Nicaragua. The report of violence against women has been hitting the headlines every single day. However, several …show more content…
According to a report by the United States Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Nicaragua has the largest youth bulge in Latin America with more than 2 million school-aged children (Lakhani 1). The report further shows that about 500,000 Nicaraguan children aged between 3-17 years are not in any educational system. Even though primary education is free and mandatory, schools are situated far away from rural areas and usually underfunded. The children from rural areas are forced to drop from school because their parents cannot afford the cost. According to Franzoni and Voorend (999), some 20 percent of individuals are illiterate, 80 percent of the economically active population are classified as vulnerable workers, and 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty
Way of Life in Nicaragua Most Nicaraguans are mestizos. That is that they have white and Indian ancestors. Their way of life is somewhat similar to that of Spanish Americans in other Central American countries. Most people belong to the Roman Catholic Church and speak Spanish.
Costa Rica is a small, democratic country, located in Central America. Nicaragua is to the north of Costa Rica and Panama to the south and it is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country is very small, only about 32,000 square miles and is slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia (CIA, para. 2 2013). This beautiful country only covers about 0.03% of the earth’s surface, yet contains about 5% of the biodiversity in the world (Visit Costa Rica, para. 2). The climate is tropical and subtropical and has four volcanoes, two of which are still active (CIA, 2013, para. 2).
The Republic of Guatemala has an inconsistent supply of clean water. Although 94% of people have access to water, the other 6% are totally deprived of this resource (xxii). In addition, 51% of its people live in poverty (xxii). The National Water Commission holds the authority over the nation’s water and its regulation, as well as sets the National Water Law (xxiii). Since the nation is unequally populated, the supply of water may be insufficient in some areas. Citizens that live in the “dry corridors”, where common droughts cause infertile and dry soil, suffer from malnutrition (xxiv). The Coffee Crisis has also been a big problem to the families; the coffee crop yield dramatically dropped in 2012 and has been declining ever since (xxv). These families have switched from planting coffee beans to bananas which sells for a much lower price (xxv). Because of this, they are unable to afford their children’s education, food or water. Fortunately, the government of Guatemala and the World Food Program offers families food in exchange for their share of work on community projects (xxv). Some areas are also vulnerable to disasters such as hurricanes and floods that can ruin their yearly income in a matter of minutes (xxiv). Due to the nation’s economic crisis, the government has no choice but to reduce foreign investments and take away their citizens’ access to credit as well as lessen the budget for seeds and fertilizers (xxiv). The Government of Guatemala launched the “Mi Comidita”, a food supplement program, in 2014 to focus on eradicating child malnutrition (xxvi). The Government of Canada had donated $2 million to the cause (xxvi). The ‘Guatemalan Maize Alliance Against Hunger” Programme was also launched to reduce malnutrition by ...
Today’s world is faced with numerous social problems that pose enormous threats to humanity. Many of these problems threaten our very survival. Poverty is an issue that plagues all societies in every part of the world. Not even the most privileged countries can seemingly avoid it. It has a huge presence in the United States which is one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
Chronic malnutrition in Honduras is even higher than in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Living in poverty has a disastrous impact on both the human and economic growth, contributing to keeping Honduras in poverty. This has a huge impact on the families in Honduras. With high food prices and economic instability, it makes it even more important to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country, women and children.
How can there be so much misery and insecurity in the midst of such abundance? One of the first things we see is that poverty doesn’t exist all by itself. It is simply one end of an overall distribution of income and wealth in society as a whole. Poverty is both a structural aspect of the system and consequence of how the system is organized and how people participate in it.
Poverty is “the inability to acquire enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter” (Gosselin,2009). This social disadvantage limits one’s ability to receive a quality education and it is a constant problem throughout the world accompanied with“deleterious impacts on almost all aspects of family life and outcomes for children”(Ravallion,1992). Poverty is a main factor that affects normal human growth and development in a variety of ways, primarily impacting children’s early development, social behaviour, health, and self worth.
In the small community La Piedra, school has become a very prominent project. The school, which was founded in 2014, provides nearly 100 children with free education and meals five days a week. In this case, education is literally saving families. The social security system in the Dominican Republic offers help to support the elderly and disabled, along with benefits for death and those who are pregnant. On the other hand, few Dominicans have additional health insurance. Due to poor sanitation, malnutrition, and inadequate housing, infant mortality is high and diseases are
Outside influences are a big deal to people they can affect so many things ones social stature,education,friends,etc reading The Autobiography of Malcom X and this is a huge theme throughout this book. With many different characters as well. The major outside influence i saw was how poverty affects people negatively by affecting health and safety
In today 's society, there is 1 in 7 people living in poverty which is costing Canadian citizens’ money as they are paying for taxes. There are many standpoints in which people examine the ways poverty affect society such as Marx’s conflict theory. Marx’s conflict theory goes over how social stratification being inevitable and how there is a class consciousness within people in the working class. Another way that poverty is scrutinized is by feminization. Feminization is the theory that will be explored throughout this essay. Poverty will be analyzed in this essay to determine the significance of poverty on the society and the implications that are produced.
Poverty can have damaging effects on children. Poverty rates amongst children are higher than another other age group according to Dalaker, 2001. Though there have been many improvements made, there are still approximately 1.2 million children still living in poverty. In terms of race and ethnicity, the poverty rate for children under 18 years of age are as followed; 30% African American, 29% Latino and 13% White. This extenuates the statistics ...
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There is currently a war in schools in the United States. Many school districts are losing funding so they are cutting band, choir, or art. People are in raged. People in the United States have lost sight of the world around us. The United is currently seventeenth in the world for education and spends 591 billion dollars on education each year. The United States prides itself on education for all. In the United States people are pushed to go further and further in education offering scholarships and grants for college and graduate schools. The United State, like other countries, has public, privates, charter, and alternative schools but what is common in Latin America? Many Latin American countries spend less than 5,000 U.S. dollars per student on education. In the United States approximately 11,810 dollars is spent per student per year. () Due to the lack of funds in these countries, the average grades of the students are lower than other countries. Without money to keep kids in schools all day, build schools, and pay qualified faculty it is impossible to expect the average grade to be equivalent to ours. In the journal The Economist, an article duly titled “Cramming them in” was published. The article talked about the economic problems, the over crowding, and the changes they are making to the system. The author of the article wrote “Two-thirds of Latin American children now get at least some secondary education, whereas only half did in the mid-1980s.” There is progress happening and Latin American countries are trying to make sure the progress will keep going. The world is pressuring the countries to build education and innovation. Because many people are poor they cannot get good educations. The current rise in the economy i...
The achievement of universal primary education (UPE is the second of the MDGs. It requires that every child enroll in a primary school and completes the full cycle of primary schooling. Every child in every country would need to be currently attending school for this to be achieved by 2015. Considerable progress has been made in this regard in many countries, particularly in encouraging enrolment into the first tier of schooling. Few of the world’s poorest countries have dramatically improved enrolments, restricted gender gaps and protracted opportunities for disadvantaged groups. Enrolments across South and West Asia (SWA) and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in particular flew by 23 percent and 51 percent respectively between 1999 and 2007. The primary education net enrolment rates (NER) increased at a much faster pace than in the 1990s and by 2007 rose at 86 percent and 73 percent respectively in these two regions. For girls, the NER rates in 2007 were a little lower at 84 percent and 71 percent respectively. The number of primary school-age children out-of school fell by 33 million at g...
To begin, there are two main types of poverty in the world, non-income and income poverty (ZPRP). Non Income Poverty is when people may have money, but only a little to keep themselves alive (ZPRP). They don’t have the money to afford physical services and social events such as schooling, work, medicines, health care, sanitation, and transportation (ZPRP). The best way to condense the cause of non-income poverty is to make sure that individuals have access to inexpensive and exceptional social services, that they feel safe when in their homes and that they have family and friends to protect them when needed (ZPRP). Income poverty is when people are living on less than 1 dollar a day, which is far from the normal amount a family can survive on (ZPRP). They tend to not have fresh food and water, medicine, live in poor houses, sometimes no houses, and have dirty and ragged clothes (ZPRP). Just as there are many types of poverty, there are many effects to it to.