FEATURES OF POVERTY.

Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is? I doubt it. Because the proper study of poverty is how to be poor.
How can anyone who enjoy three square meals a day explain what poverty means?
Indeed, can someone who has two full meals a day claim to know poverty?
Perhaps, one begins to grasp the real meaning of poverty when one struggle really hard to have one miserable meal in twenty-four hours,

 or lived under 1$ per day. Someone may end up imagining how could you manage to lived under 1$ per day? Just because you never witness an event doesn't mean it isn't existing. People living in some region rural area may knew this better than anyone, even some people in the urban areas may have witness it or hard about it(high percentage of people living under 1$ per day). Poverty and hunger are cousin, the former always dragging along the latter wherever he chooses to go.

If you are wearing a suit, or a complete traditional attire, and you look naturally rotund in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails. Nor can you have a true feel of poverty is you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind that all these are causal wear.
Indeed, if you can change from one dress into another, and these are all you can boast of, you're not really poor. A person begins to have a true feel of what poverty means when, apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he dose not have any other, not even a calico sheet to keep away the cold at night.

Let's let the small screen aside and face the reality, how can anyone who has never slept outside, in the open appreciate the full, harsh import of homelessness? Yet that is what real naked poverty is. He who can lay claim to a house, however humble, cannot claim to be poor. Indeed, if he can afford to rent a flat, or a room in a town or a city, without the landlord having cause to eject him, he cannot honestly claim to be poor.
The really poor man has no roof over his head, and this is why you find him under a bridge, in a tent or simply in the vast open air.

But this is hardly all. The poor man feels the world as a hopeless underdog. In every bargain, every discussion, every event involving him and others, the poor man is constantly reminded of his failure in life. Nobody listens attentively when he makes a point, nobody accepts that his opinion merits consideration. So, in most cases, he learnt to accept that he has neither wisdom nor opinion.

The paupers lot naturally rubs off on his child who is subject not only to hunger of the body but also of the mind. The paupers lack the resources to send his child to school. And even in communities where education is free, the paupers child still faces an uphill task because the hunger of the body impedes the proper nourishment of the mind. Denied access to modern communication media, the poor child has very little opportunity to understand the concepts that he's taught. His mind is a rocky soil on which the teachers seed cannot easily germinate. Thus embattled at home and then at school, the paupers child soon has very little option but to drop out of the school.

That is still not all. Weakened by hunger, embattled by cold and exposure to the element, feeding on poor water and poor food, the pauper is an easy target for disease. This is precisely why the poorest countries have the shortest life experiences while the longest life expectancies are recorded among the richest countries. Poverty is really a disease that shorten life!