Existing, not living - Existing on Less than $2 a Day part 4

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


They don’t have any books, magazines or newspapers. It would be meaningless because they are illiterate and will never learn to read or write.

Parents cannot afford the fees to send their children to school.
 
The children must work to help support their families.
 
 
Line of hungry children

 

They don’t have any clothing except for a single old shirt and one old pair of jeans. 

If they have any food available, it will be nothing more than a small bag of flour, some sugar, some salt, and a few potatoes, onions, cabbages or dry beans.
 
 
Children playing around an open sewer in Nairobi, Kenya

Children playing around an open sewer in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya
Source: Chris Johnson

 

The only fuel they have for cooking is either firewood or dried cow dung.
 
They don’t have any bathroom. They’ll have to use the local stream, pond, or gutter in the street.