Child Poverty- Sabiha Syed

The following article was written by my cousin Sabiha from Cambridge, Canada as part of her school project. I love it not because it was written by a 13 year old but because the message sent across is in plain simple words and at the same time it's so expressive. Good job, Sabiha.

Child Poverty

Child poverty is one of the biggest issues in the world today. Children from all around the world are living on the street and eating from garbage dumps. Many kids walk on the street with little or no cloths at all. They work in factories or as servants to help there family earn money. Some children are living with AIDS and other diseases; they can’t get help because they can’t afford a doctor. Every second of their life is in danger! Every minute, around 10 children die due to poverty. That is why we need to help them.

There are many things that the government can do, like 2% of the taxes will go to stop child poverty. Something parents can do is sponsor a child. There are many organizations that let you sponsor a child like World Vision. Even though it doesn’t seem like a lot for us, it is for those kids.

We can also do a lot in school like have a food drive every month. We could also have a donation box where we can donate old cloths, toys and other items. We could also collect pennies from students, if every student gave one penny the in 1 day we would have collected forty dollars! We could also make backpacks in which we would put school supplies and send it to Africa, India and other countries where child poverty is common. If we start at our school, other schools would start to follow. And soon before you know it, all the schools in Canada would be doing what we started. And soon, hopefully we can decrease the amount of kids who are suffering from child poverty.

Children shouldn’t have to live like this. They should be able to live a life like us. While we are here moaning because we didn’t get the latest i-Pod, or latest car, they are grateful that they found a slice of pizza or half a burger. They don’t care if it was from the dump or stepped on. As long as they have food they are happy. While we are here sleeping in our comfortable beds, they are there on the streets trying to sleep. And when they wake up they go looking for some way to earn money but as they do that, we are at school wishing we didn’t have to go. But these kids would do anything to go to school! We should consider us lucky; we have so much while they have so little.

If we take the stand, others will follow. And soon, if god wills child poverty will stop. And every child will live a life like us, they wouldn’t have to eat food from the garbage or sleep on the streets! If we all try, this dream can be fulfilled. It’s not impossible!!! We can change the world, we can make a difference!!!