Poverty Essay:
In our second week of exploration we had a really interesting activity which gave us the opportunity to enter the shoes of all the people in need around this world.
This event was really enjoyable as well as sad, and heartbreaking. The main focus of this event was for us to step into the shoes of poor people who live in slums and barely have money for food, and water which are the main things a person needs to survive. There are many things we learnt, such as decision making, because we only had a certain amount of money a day and we had to decide what we want to spend it on. That was one of the hard things during this event because sometimes we had to sell our own property just so are homes won't be taken away from us.
The biggest issue and the things that was the hardest to understand and most disturbing was that doesnt matter how hard you worked that day and how many bags you made you would still earn the same amount of money. The reason for that was because you had to pay the landlord, you had to use the toilet etc. Even if you wanted to save money and not go to the toilet you had two choices, die or pay for medicine. These people work so hard for their life and sometimes when they are out of cash and the landlord want to kick them out cause they can't pay him, they offer a second option to retrieve their payment which is sex for one night.
Children Labour:
Child labour is a very popular and bad thing that is happening in many countries throughout our world right now. Child labour is also happening in Hong kong although its not as bad as in other places. In HK the maximum hours for a young person to work is 8 hours a day, and 48 hours a week. This is still a lot of time for a young child or even teenager to work but luckily in Hong Kong this case is not as bad as in other countries. In some countries like Ethiopia which is know as one of the countries with the worst child labour, young girls are sent to work as prostitutes, and Ethiopia is not the only country, there are many more countries around the world.
There are many solutions for this problem such as making a rule that when you buy products you have to donate 10% to charity to help those people. So they can receive more money every month instead of selling themselves to make money.
One restricting rule could be that you have to pay some of your taxes to child labour.
Prostitution is another popular job out there that woman have to do to save their families even though they are married and their husbands know all about it. Prostitution itself is legal in Hong Kong but organized prostitution isn't.
My solution is the same solution as before. To stop all these bad things happening the best thing is to ask many people to donate money to this poor people.
I learnt a lot from this experience. The main thing i learnt is that you always need to respect what you have and be happy with it and always look at what you have and not at what you don't have. I also learnt that more than half of the people in this terrible world are living their lives as slaves and suffer every minute and second of it. This experience gave me a lot because my father is a person that helps a lot of people and i already have been in many charity organizations that help the pour. 2 years ago when i was in Israel i went to serve food to the poor and that gave me a big boost and motivation to help the poor. This activity was totally different because when doing
