This is a topic that brings a heaviness and sadness to anyone thinking about this topic. This is a state that is a result of social systems that have not provided enough. For instance, lack of insurance is one "symptom" of poverty or one way a person can experience poverty. Poverty makes a person a part of a vulnerable population. The National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health defines vulnerable populations as groups or communities that are at a higher risk for poor health that come because of the barriers, they experience due to political, social, economic, and environmental resources, this may also include limitations due to disability or illness.
I witnessed poverty in India in unique ways that a person can experience.
Poverty is experienced or witnessed in different ways according to the country of geographic residence. I will be developing this page gradually...but I witnessed poverty in many countries including Mexico, Greece, and in India; the largest slum in India is the Dharavi slum. Slum as defined by the United Nations Program on Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) as an adjoining settlement where the people living there are characterized as having inadequate housing and those basic services. However below is the account in Sierra Leone. I had watched Black Earth Rising on Netflix; however below is an account from a person that lived there.
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Sierra Leone experienced an eleven-year civil war which started in 1991 and ended in 2002. The civil war claimed over 70,000 lives and 2 million six hundred thousand displaced people.
After the civil war, the poverty level in Sierra Leone became high--with 53% of the population living below the poverty line ($1.25 per day).
Sierra Leone then is ranked 181 out of 189 countries in the 2019 human development index LINK. The Kroo bay community within the central Freetown coastline is Sierra Leones' largest slum, and it has a population of about six thousand people. Residents of the Kroo bay community lack access to essential determinants of health. Inadequate sanitation, just one small health care facility for six thousand people, high incidence of child malnutrition, high maternal mortality rate, and lots more unfavorable living conditions.