Existing, not living - Absolute Poverty

The primary purpose of population balance is to reduce misery and suffering in the world.

 

Absolute poverty is a condition of existence so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency. 

 

Starving children searching for insects to eat

Starving children searching for insects to eat in Sudan.
 
These poorest - who struggle to survive in absolute poverty - are more than the entire world population in 1850!

 

Starving child

 

About 1 out of every 5 people on the planet struggles to exist in this horrific condition.

 

 Starving child sitting in the dirt

What do you think your life would be like if you were this young person?

What do you think this boy’s hopes and dreams are for the future?