Question

Briefly explain the chronic poverty and disability cycle

Answer 1

Chronic Poverty is when an individual or a group in the country experience poverty for a long period of time. Unlike Temporary Poverty, It is mostly measured in the scale of five years. The elongated duration of being in these conditions passes on the poverty to the next generation as well. People living in poverty suffer hunger most of the time and have poor access to resources, water, proper sanitation, and health-care. They are often found living in poor and dangerous environments, areas prone to natural disaster, and in poorly made houses. Their residential zones are often prone to conflicts and are very close to traffic. The struggle to cope with their conditions make them take up jobs involving serious risks. The conditions of hunger, negligible health-care, and hazardous living and jobs often tend to throw them into chances of being disabled by injury, malnutrition, and diseases.

Disabled people are neglected and deprived in the society of basic privileges. They struggle in their poverty with even more hardships and obstacles to get hold of a living status and acceptance in the society. They get discriminated against others also in terms of Education, Jobs, and Opportunities. Even in a family of more than one children, the disables one is outcasted and not given equal opportunities. In some families, they are also the last one to receive food, if left. They are considered a burden as even the parents feel that they are incapable of providing for the family in the future. They also have a comparatively higher cost of living based on their medical needs.

These Disabled People continue to live in poverty because of the negligible care that is taken for the Poor and the ignorance of the Disabled mass out of the total. This is how the Chronic-Poverty-and-Disability-Cycle works.