Poverty

INTRODUCTION – Why is this a Global Justice Issue?

As Nelson Mandela rightly pointed out, poverty is not natural; it is man-made but the way that it is spoken about and particularly how people living in poverty are spoken about, does not reflect this. As a society we focus greatly on the effects of poverty which is brilliant but often we are led to believe that the people living in poverty are there purely of their own doing. We rarely look under the hood and see what are the various reasons why so many people in our so-called civilised world live in poverty. We need to dig deeper into the root causes of poverty in order to understand how we can help change it.