Mexican Poverty Research Paper

Poverty is very barbaric when hitting Central Mexico. Whether it be elders to young children who wake up with empty stomachs. Or people who have to make a living with only little money and struggle to take care of themselves and their families. If you had to wake up and “look forward” to yet another day without food, how would you feel? It was classified that over 58 million Mexicans live below the poverty line, and the government has identified 11.7 million living in extreme poverty and deprivation.

According to a site called, “borgenproject.org”, “More than 20 million children out of 58 million people live in poverty,with more than 5 million living in extreme poverty out of the 11.7 million people”. These are children that could be up to

the age of three or younger. What makes the matter even worse is that, children who live in families that are under the poverty line have the least choice in what happens to them. Same goes for the elders living below the poverty line, who grow weaker everyday because of the need of nutrition. If this keeps going on, the starvation of helpless people will never end.

However, there are people who are willing to change the state that all of these poor people are going through. Starting with The Hunger Project. According to their website, “Over the past 30 years, The Hunger Project’s experience in Mexico have demonstrated that the most direct and lasting route to sustainable development for ending hunger is through the will, commitment, and capacity of the people who stand to gain the most when hunger ends.”

No one should be living on an empty stomach. If you care for any of these people, and you couldn’t live with the thought that your own kind is starving, then you will support The Borgen Project. All of us as one can stop poverty, and finally bring it down.