We see at all those endless commercials about child Poverty, with all those photographs of babies with huge sad eyes and most people feel bad.
Are we kind of smug though? I mean, that kind of stuff happens in Africa, and South America?
That's one of the things I can still never understand, is why so many kids worldwide live in poverty. I know that in third world countries there are many myriad reasons. Not excuses! But drought, earthquakes and other natural disasters play a part. Things are only going to get worse, and not better with our man-made climate crisis which is already happening. Then there's war, governments that spend more on arms and bombs than food for their citizens....
But whats our excuse? I mean, seriously?
I'm Canadian. But before you say, "oh not another one of those smug gits from Canada" I'm ashamed of my own country as well. Deeply ashamed.
We live in the best place in the world, supposedly. Its great to be here in North America, we have oceans, mountains....We are free?
Free if you can afford to be so, I suppose.
I see so many diaries on these topics, many don't seem to be read. I read a couple last week, I missed this one until the rec period had passed.
Just a couple rec's on that one too. A phrase from those has stuck with me though......Don't just look away.....
Healthcare and poverty are intertwined in the US. They are linked in ways that most cannot comprehend. Healthcare is getting (MUCH DESERVED!) attention on kos.
But the two, Poverty, and healthcare...Are not separate in my mind. In Canada, we have Universal Healthcare, but it makes no difference to homeless kids often enough.
Don't look away.
Some statistics, from the two richest countries in the world.
