Summary
In the
beginning of the Ted Talk, Gary Haugen talks about how he was talking care of
police abuse cases until 1994, when he was sent to Rwanda to be the director of
the U.N.’s genocide investigation. He thinks that the Rwanda genocide was one
of the world’s greatest failures of simple compassion (Compassion is made from
two words in Latin, Cum Passion which means to suffer with). He was also part
of the greatest success of compassion which is the fight against Global
Poverty. One of his most Jarring experiences was with Venus who is a mom from
Zambia. She has 3 kids and she is a widow.
When he met
her she had walked about 12 miles so she could go the Capital city so she can
tell her story. Venus talked with Gary for hours, telling him how she
experienced poverty. She had to watch her youngest son suffer from
malnutrition. To Gary, the fight against global poverty is the broadest,
longest running manifestation of the human phenomenon of compassion in the
history of our species. When Gary was graduating high school, they told him
thirty five years ago that 40,000 children die because of poverty. But now,
that number has dropped to about to 17,000 children.
His point
is that every year, Eight million kids don’t have to die from poverty. The
people that live in extreme poverty ($1.25) 35 years ago was 50%, but now is
15%. But 2 Billion people that only made $1.25 now only make $2.00. Now going
back to Venus, she said that she was fine, until her husband died, and Brutus
through them out of their house and stole their land. He says that none of
those traditional antipoverty programs could stop Brutus because they weren’t
meant to get rid of him. Gary goes on and starts to talk about another girl he
met whose name is Griselda and she lives in Guatemala.
When he
first met her she noticed that she wasn’t going to school at all and she was
barely leaving her home. Days before they met her when she was walking home
from church, men out of nowhere snatched her and raped her. She had every
opportunity to go to school, but it wasn’t safe for her to get there. Any
anti-poverty programs cannot save slaves from being in poverty, and that’s the
downfall of them. Poverty has to be fixed so this problem can be solved.
My Opinion
I think
that it is horrible that Antipoverty programs can’t fix this problem that they
overlook it. I like the Antipoverty programs but I hate how they overlook
issues such as dragging people out of their houses which causes them to be in
poverty or people being dragged into slavery which causes them to be in
poverty. I really hope that those programs while watch this Ted talk and try to
fix what and how they support poverty.
But, I’m still glad that the numbers have started to drop for how many
children died in poverty but I still feel really bad for them. This concluded
my opinion.
"The Hidden Reason for Poverty
the World Needs to Address Now." Gary Haugen:. N.p., n.d. Web. 31
May 2015.
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