Speeches

This year yet again we have had to do speeches. My topic was on Poverty. I have done my speech and have made it into the syndicate speeches. Poverty Worldwide

Over half the worlds population is living in the streets, in disease, and in poverty. For those of you who don’t know what poverty means, I’ll tell you. Poverty is a shortage of common things like food, clothing, shelter, and safe and clean water. These things will determine the quality of life, without them we die. It also includes lack of opportunities, such as education and employment.

Although there is plenty of food for everyone in the world, one billion children live in poverty. A child is dyeing every three seconds as a result of extreme poverty. 1.4 million die each year from the lack of safe drinking water. 2.2 million children die each year because they have not been immunized. According to the UNICEF foundation, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. 640 million live without suitable shelter, 400 million have no access to safe drinking water, and 270 million have no access to health services. Infectious diseases are claiming the lives of many humans that live in poverty. One of the most common diseases is Malaria, its a disease that is spread by mosquitoes and it infects the cells, and also kills them. Every year there are 350 to 500 cases in Africa alone. Another quite common disease is H.I.V, which infects your blood cells and immune system.

Almost half the world over 6 billion people live on less than $2.50c a day. Less than one percent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 but it hasn’t happened yet. There are organizations that help people in need including, UNICEF, and world vision, they help donate money, clothes and other things, to help people live life.

While people who are living in poverty die because they are not getting enough food for them to live, wealthy people are chucking unwanted food into the rubbish...seems wasteful to me. This is a poem by an ancient Chinese man by the name of Du Fu expressing how he felt about poverty.

Behind the gates of the wealthy Food lies rotting from waste Outside it's the poor Who lie frozen to death.