Written by the C.E.O. of the Fund of Children & Families, hoping that there’s more awareness on the issues, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
Today is international children’s rights day, I’d paid especial attention to the issues of children’s welfare including poverty and children’s rights, there’s this lacking in the statistics of formal statistics on the ratios of the poverty between the generations, but, based off of the social workers in the foundations who’d made the household visits, there were about a-fifth of the families who received assistances that didn’t have a good enough household economic statuses a generation before either.
Li was a classic case that the Foundation looked after, she was born in a family of five siblings, her father is a model maker, her younger brother is mentally retarded, when Li was thirteen, her father died of liver disease, and that, was when the family started living on assistance. After middle school, Li started working, as an operator in a cloth factory, she’d often worked nights, hoping to earn a little more money for her family, she’d gotten married when she was not yet twenty, and later on, found that her husband was a drunk, and, her home life became filled with altercations and physical violence, and the stresses of taking care of her young baby; three years ago, her husband died abruptly, leaving behind a lot of debts unpaid, and their young child, Li sought out assistance from the resources of the society, and, the cycle of poverty became like the devil that’s always by her side.
Based off of what the general public understands about the “poverty lines”, it’s based off of how much assistance individuals were needing from the government, there were, over 260,000 households in poverty, and almost 700,000 people living IN poverty currently, the rate of poverty is 2.84 percent, but, this estimate is often believed to be lowballed.
And, looking at the assistance program for poverty stricken families, it’d also reflected our society’s awareness and knowledge of poverty, there were, still, many restrictions placed on those living in poverty, fearing that they’d become too reliant on social welfare, that poverty had stripped the children from these backgrounds to find their own way, to make a living in the society later on in life, which will cause furthering of the gaps of the rich and the poor in the future.
The traditional systems of assistance focus on the basic living needs, food in the stomachs, and clothes on the backs, it easily ignored the issues on the cycle of poverty and the risks of those children growing up in poverty. Allowing the children from poverty to have the same amount of available education and cultural capitals, giving them the opportunities, and dignities, that, is the spirits of the International Children’s Rights Day.
So, this, is a SERIES of problems that are all connected, and, because you were born in poverty, and, there’s NO way for you to move up, because of the little amount of resources available to you (education, training, etc., etc., etc.) that, is why you’re prone, to repeat the cycles, and, the key here is education, rather than assistance, because if you give money to the poor, what’s going to happen, after the money runs out, the poor goes BACK into being poor again, but, if you give them a viable skill, then, they will be able to, pull themselves back up from living without money, because they would have the skills to make their own living.