Non-Fiction Reading Response : Upfront Magazine " The End Of Extreme Poverty"

The  article in Uprfront Magazine "The End Of Extreme Poverty" is about how in some places of the world people are really poor, and how some people in the developing world live on less than $1.25 a day. The Author Nicholas D. Kristof, states how  extreme poverty has been reduced from 1 in 2  in 1980, to 1 in 5 today, the aim is to reduce the amount of extreme poverty in the world to almost nothing by the year 2030.

  The author talks about, how he met a woman in Cambodia  whose daughter had passed away of malaria and she was left to take care of seven children/grandchildren. She showed the author her 1 anti-malaria mosquito net, and told him that every night she thinks extremley hard about which children to leave under it , and which ones to leave out and have them be exposed to the mosquitos.

 I found that section of the article Interesting because, it's sad to think about.  I tried to put myself in the shoe's of someone who had siblings (i'm an only child) and we were really poor, and we were living in an area with a lot of disease and our parents had to choose which child to keep safe, and which to expose to the disease. I believe that the author included this part into the article to make people think about what it's like to live the life of someone in extreme poverty, so that people can donate to certain funds and charity's so that these people who are living these really terrible lifes, can one day live a better one.

 " In 1990, more than 12 million children died before the age of 5. Now that figure is down about 6 millon. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose foundation is pioneering the vaccines and medicines saving these lives, says that in his lifetime the number will drop below one million.. There's been this change of consciousness and a massive mobilization of resources, Its had an enormous effect"

 That quote makes me glad that the extreme poverty rates are going down because, nobody should really have to live a life like that. Its good to know that diseases like polio and measles are dying down thanks to massive vaccination programs. I'm glad that there are many resources to help out these people with these terrible diseases without homes, or money suffering these harsh conditions.


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Kristof, Nicholas D. "The End Of Extreme Poverty?" Upfront Magazine 9 Dec. 2013: 16-17. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.