Children Poverty

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 issues they end being alcoholic and being in a lot of debts.

Lack of dimensions deprives children from the key aspects of their lives, which will help them reach their full potential. In 2015, about 13,1% of children were deprived in one dimension whilst 80% were deprived in at least two dimensions. According to the SA-MODA(South Africa Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis) on average, the mutlimensional poor  were deprived in about four out of seven dimension. South Africa is judged by recent United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) research to be one of the most unequal society in the world and it's 19 million children bear the brunt of this disparity. These children experience poverty because of , example being born in a big household with seven or more household members. Therefore the head of the family cannot provide for everyone due to low income or no education. In addition, children that are single orphans where only the mother is alive have a higher poverty rate compared to a single orphan where only the father is alive. Sometimes people get misinformed on children poverty causes mostly because their ignorant, they just think maybe parents abandoned the children while they were young. Also misinformed that poverty is only because the parents don't have money and there is nothing that can be done to change they way of living.

A South African Non Profitable Organization called CHOSA South Africa believes every child should grow up in a healthy, safe and nurturing environment. The organization empowers people to address child poverty and confront that which sustains a community's impoverishment oppression and sense of powerlessness. CHOSA gives monthly grants to its partners providing a children's home, two pre-schools, a girl's empowerment program and a scholarship fund. Including clothing, food, medicine, electricity and water for the children and families in their care. The funds also assist South African communities by providing a safe and nurturing homes for children.