Kia Ora and welcome to my blog about CHILD POVERTY
Personally,
when I hear the word poverty I straight away think about the children and their
families I see when watching TV (World Vision and CCF). I notice that these families have no food,
water, medicines, education and their homes are tiny shacks. This is what I have always assumed poverty to
be, but am I being too naive? Apparently so, as just recently poverty has made
headlines here in New Zealand, who would of thought? And not only is it a
current issue; it has been an on-going problem for quite some time.
Given
my lack of knowledge around this area I would like to take a further look into
child poverty (especially here in New Zealand) and equip myself with a better
understanding about and around it. First
of all I would like to find out what child poverty actually is? How are children and
families considered to be living in poverty in New Zealand? And how is it
affecting their lives?
I
can imagine that poverty may not be top of your discussion topics amongst your
friends and to be honest you may not have even seen it yet, but it does exist
and it is a very real issue here in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and around the
world.
