Poverty In Singapore(Zhiqing)
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REFLECTION(POVERTY)
Poverty
in Singapore is probably something that is invisible to us
Singaporeans and foreigners too unless we are the few that is less
well off in terms of our financial income . Singapore being
considered one of the richest city in the world and naturally nobody
will ever think of Singapore as a country with the word "poverty"
involved .
However
, there are still about 105,000 households that earns less than
Singapore's average per capita income of $52,305 per year , people
can be seen often selling tissue packets outside hawker centers to
make a living or even collecting drink cans from trash cans. Indeed ,
Singaporeans are not aware of the scale and the depth of poverty in
Singapore.
I
believe that the reason why Singaporeans are not aware of poverty
that occurs in our own country is because people living in poverty
are well hidden because housing in Singapore are is relatively
affordable and even the poor will still have a roof under their
heads. Homeless people are still considered relatively little
compared to other countries.
Despite
that , I believe that the awareness of poverty in Singapore will
increase as campaigns to create awareness are increasing over the
last few years . For example, "Singaporeans Against Poverty"
is one of them . This campaign is intended to be carried out for
three to five years and it's aim is to let everyone start thinking
about the poor in Singapore but not a charity or donation drive .
Videos and advertisements carry out the message that the poor in
Singapore will not be worrying about what to wear for work, making
decisions to sell their houses for profit or considering to purchase
cars but they will be worrying about trying to make ends meet , how
to earn more money to allow their children to have three meals per
day. Most importantly , they want to create awareness on how the poor
in Singapore lives by everyday. They also encourage everyone to
participate in its $5 dollar challenge , this challenge is just
challenging the participants to only use $5 dollars a day for food
and transport . I find this challenge pretty interesting as $5 is
probably not enough for three meals for a average adult . I'm sure
that almost everyone will struggle to use only five dollars a day
since a simple meal will probably be $5.
Throughout
this few years , I feel that the awareness of the poor in Singapore
is gradually increasing and the government has also implemented more
schemes to aid them financially . With the help of the government and
campaigns related to poverty , I believe that poverty in Singapore
will be less serious and affect a even smaller group of people as
time passes. Poverty is something that may not be fully resolved no
matter what but I feel that it can minimized through the support that
us citizens provide for them and also the government .
Zhiqing
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