Who are poor?

Or

Write down the features of the poor?

These are main features of the poor.

1. Malnutrition is alarming high among the poor.

2. Ill-health, disability or serious illness makes them physically weak.

3. They borrow from money lenders who charge high rates of interest that lead them into chronic indebtness.

4. The poor are highly vulnerable.

5. They are not able to negotiate their legal wages from employers and are exploited.

6. Most poor households have no access to delectricity.

7. Their primary cooking fuel is firewood and cow-dung.

8. A large section of poor people do not even have access to safe drinking water.

9. There is an extreme gender inequality in the participation of gainful employment, education and in decision making within the poor family.

10. Poor women receive less care on their way to motherhood.

11. Their children are less likely to survive or be born healthy.

We sum of up the features of poverty with two scholars Saheen Rafi Khan and Damian's remarks, 'Poverty is hunger, poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not being able to go to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job. Poverty is fear for the future, having food once a day. Poverty is losing a child to illness, brought about by unclear water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.'