Poverty

Poverty is all about a state or situation of:

Being hungry and having no availability of food is found in our society. For example in many cities during lunch and dinner time, outside the average-level hotels, many people sit waiting for food to remove their hunger.

Lack of shelter. It has been observed in some rural parts of Pakistan that there is a group of people who do not have houses to live but they spend their lives along the bank of the rivers keeping migration from village to village or region to region continuously.

Being sick and not being able to see a doctor. It is in common observation that in public sector hospitals sick people cannot get medicines because of the unavailability of sufficient medicines. The doctors advise them to visit their private clinics. The sick people because of the high rates of fees in private clinics can not go to the doctors.

No access to school and not knowing how to read. In some parts of Pakistan, no schools have been established by the government and the people do not know how to read and write but if private organizations initiate the schools they are not allowed by the people because of influences of some pressure groups.

Not having a job and a fear for the future. Whenever tests are conducted for different jobs, thousands of candidates appear in the test for a limited number of jobs. This shows that a large number of people are without jobs and are fearful about their future.

Living one day at a time. The example given above about the people who are without shelter is also in this situation. They search for small amounts of minerals in the banks of rivers. If they get some amount they sell and purchase food for that day. 

Losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. In one of the villages of northern parts of Pakistan a decade ago there was no clean tap water available, due to which particularly in summer children used to get diarrhea. That was a state of losing a child to sickness brought about by no access to clean water.

Powerlessness, lack of representation, and freedom. In Pakistan landlords/ elite families keep servants to work in their fields and many elite people contest elections and the servants are asked to vote for them otherwise they will be in trouble. The servants cannot go against the elites and are not free to choose the representatives of their own (World Bank, 2009).