Nick’s Blog

There are many countries in the world where most of their population don’t even receive a primary education, 1st to 5th grade. To us, these grades seem unimportant, but to them it’s almost like a way to salvation. In order for them to receive these necessary schooling, countries must do something about it. Most of the aid are either given to unnecessary areas, or are simply consumed by corrupted leaders. These aid should have been enforced to be used specifically in education so that these leaders can’t leech off of the money, or will it be spent on useless area. And also, renovations for schools and to pay the teachers should also be more important than food aid. Food’s important, but ‘give a man a fish, it’ll feed him for  a day’ isn’t enough, we need to ‘teach him to fish, and you’ll feed him for the rest of his life’. We need to teach these people at least enough so they can start to profit themselves instead of having to live a poor life until their death.

A picture of an informal class, because of environments like these, even if they try their best, they won’t be able to receive the best education they need.

Minimal quality of classes like these are at least needed so that these students can get the best they can from their education.

I personally think that poor people aren’t much good for us. If we give them education, they might use it to turn against the helpers, or sometimes they wouldn’t even study at all. There are a minority of the poor people who are struggling to achieve a higher, better life through education and that they are the ones that I admire, but what about the rest of the poor people? Murderers sometimes kills just for money, they never bother to get an education, did they? Most of the poor countries who receive aid don’t really use it wisely. The government would put the money in their own pocket and not spend it on their people at all, and because of these inferiors who kept on exacerbate the situation, the aids is now tied and/or only focused on one area, which only benefits the donor country. Because of people like this, it have led others like myself into thinking that all poor people are the same: foolish, useless, and greedy. But after some news articles I found, I realize that not all poor people are bad: a girl whose father died and mother’s a vegetable, is struggling to work and study at the same time and she is still an excellent student; in another case, a young boy whose father’s a drunk, abusing foolish man, and whose mother a gambler with the worst luck, is forcing her to work, and bring them back money to waste and spend uselessly. Parents like those should have deserve a death sentence, and children like those should have received the best education. Being mistreated like that, and yet they are still trying to survive. To me, there are two types of poor people: the ones who gets the worst treatment and put into work camp to work as labors for the rest of their lives due to their laziness to study and work, and the ones who should be nurtured properly, educated, and loved by society because they are the ones who actually put efforts into their studies. The latter’s the kinda of poor people we should care for, because they are probably our future, because of their determination to be better, they will even be better than us at success and we are the ones who will give them their chances now for a better future.

A poor woman who lives in a lowly slum, who probably never had proper education.

With proper care and education, a person will be able to think for himself and are able to make a profit.