A Day In The World’s Shoes Nov, 6, 2008

The goal of international day this year is to understand and learn about poverty, and during this year my school is trying to help a charity build a small school that will fit about 100 students with 60,000 USD. To experience about poverty we first have to know how its like to only make less than a dollar a day, and we students that goes to SSIS are very lucky. There is always a cycle of the poverty that if your parents are in poverty which the job they get is to make paper bags and sell it to the shop, their children will grow up being taught how to make paper bags because that is the only that they learned form their parents. They didn’t gets the chance to go to school and get a proper education, without education there is no hope to become a person in a higher leval in society. If they are sick, they don’t have the money to go to doctor, and if they are very ill they can’t work that equals no work no income. A family like this often have 9 children or more but their parents can only make about 1.25USD per day.