Poverty Reduction Begins with Children
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By Tendai Posiana CHILDREN are often the hardest hit vulnerable age-group by poverty, as it causes lifelong damage to their spiritual minds and physical bodies. Like women, children especially the girl-child carry the brunt of poverty coined in the slogan ‘feminisation of vulnerability.’ Poverty becomes to greater extent an inheritance as impoverished people are more often than not likely to pass on to their biological children, thus perpetuating the poverty cycle. It is against this backdrop that poverty reduction work must begin with children, by teaching or imparting life-living skills. In addition, I concur with a school of thought imploring...