3: Poverty
Empower people through political equality. Other Information:
The hand that giveth and the hand that taketh away. However you look at it, there is no way to see our present situation as
just. A child dies every six seconds because of hunger, even though we have enough food for everyone (Source: WFP). In the
last century, the biggest steps taken against extreme poverty within countries was through political change. Giving equal
political voice to rich and poor opened the door to redistribution in the form of healthcare, education and housing. Expecting
the massive global inequality to be redressed through aid is a sticky plaster approach that doesn't deal with the cause. It
shouldn't be for rich countries to decide how much aid to give, who to give it to, and what conditions to attach to it. We
don't do that on a national level, so why do it on a global one? The only equitable, just and sustainable way of addressing
poverty is involving everyone affected equally. If we really want to combat poverty we need to ditch the donor-recipient model.
People want empowerment through political equality. Only then will we be able to come up with just and sustainable solutions.
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