Topic History and Explanation

What is poverty you ask? Poverty can be defined as "a person who has an extremely low amount of money or is extremely poor." There are numerous amounts of people that are in the state of poverty in India. In fact, there is an article that states "India Is Home to More Poor People Than Anywhere Else on Earth" (http://time.com/2999550/india-home-to-most-poor-people/). This leads into the history of poverty in India. Poverty in India begins way back before independence. From the 19th century to the early 20th century, poverty in India was increasing rapidly. This occurred during the colonial era. The increase in poverty was due to the colonial government reducing finished products being manufactured in India, including garments. The colonial government decided to import from Britain for their innovating industry. With that being said, the government also started to buoy to create more farms in place of land, making exports from India to the rest of the world. The work on these farms was grueling, yet the average income for the workers was below the poverty line! The Bengal famine of 1943 was estimated to kill approximately three million people from starvation, disease, and malnutrition. Two more famines had arisen, between 12.2 to 20.6 million people died from them. One of the famines had occurred in 1876 - 1879, and the other in 1896 – 1898. The Bengal famine was not an isolated event, but it was brutal. The following events display the estimated poverty percentage of people in India: in the 1950's, the poverty percentage was calculated to be 65%, in the 1960's, the estimate poverty percentage was 59%, for the 1970's - 1980's, the poverty percentage was exceeding 50%, and finally, in the 1990's, the poverty percentage was about 39%.

Mission Statement

The mission statement of my blog is to inform people that not everyone in the world makes enough money to provide basic needs for themselves and their families including food, shelter, medical care, and clothing.  Extra items like electronics, and privileges such as vehicles do not exist for them. Some people make less than one dollar a day! I believe that people around the world should be aware of this because if enough people do know about poverty in different countries, we may be able to help these poverty stricken countries. How? We can raise a lot of money by donating to different organizations that help with these poor countries. I chose poverty in India as my topic, due to the fact that I wanted to inform people about poverty, and my friend was born in India, so I decided to pick that country.