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Children Poverty

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Children Poverty Pandemics come and go for instance we had Ebola scaring the whole world and now it's Covid 19 keeping us on our toes. One thing that does not come and go or get cured with vaccines is poverty which people have been suffering from since beginning of time. Although research shows that people who suffer from poverty mostly are children, 6 out of 10 children aged 0-17 years are multidimensional poor. Unlike an older person who is poor but can make means to survive and can go days without dimensions. Therefore children depend on their household income and when there is no income and dimension they have no solution for them. Dimensions are basic needs a human being needs to survive on a daily, e.g education, electricity, household, water or nutrition. This leads to the kids not going to school from a early age, once their teenagers they end up joining gangsters or taking drugs. Same goes for the elders when they're having financially is...