Children In Poverty

It seems as though today society is oblivious to the fact that there are so many children in the world living within poverty. Now a days, we have numerous foundations that cater to helping orphan children on the streets. There is one particular city that I want to focus more on which is Mexico City in Mexico. Mexico City is the largest city within the country of Mexico with a population of twenty million people. With that being said one fifth of Mexican children in Mexico City are living in poverty.
There are many issues that come along with one fifth of Mexican children in Mexico City living within poverty. The main issue that I want to focus on is the lack of education that these children are not receiving because they have no birth certificates which means there is no identification of these kids. These children are roaming the streets of Mexico City begging for money and putting on tricks or shows are various stop lights. While these children are living on the streets and hanging around during the day with nothing to do, other children are receiving an education that these children are not able to get. I also want to focus on another point, these children have no parental guidance and find themselves doing anything to be on drugs everyday. This is a major issue with children using various drugs on the streets on Mexico City causing it to be a dangerous place for anyone to be. The issue with this is the fact that these children are sharing needles to get high which can spread HIV. It’s hard for uneducated young adults to know these things when you learn that in school. I also want to touch on the fact that these children are in desperate help. I actually have gone to Mexico City numerous times to help build homes for these children and work with them on educational issue that they are lacking. This is a serious issue that has been going on in Mexico City and I find it that people are unaware of the situation that is acquiring there.

So America says to themselves why should we be concerned with Mexico City? One main reason we should help is the simple fact that Mexico City has the highest poverty and homeless children in the world. Which not only says how the country is doing with trying to help get these kids off the streets, but how much the government cares. Secondly, because they’re our neighbors and the concern with some of these children coming across into our country with all the issues they have gone through is scary and a risk factor for our country. Possibly sending them help could keep some of them from trying to come across to the United States. The United States has had 11.2 million immigrants come into the country since 1990 to 2000. Out of those 11.2 million immigrants 8 million of them are Mexicans.

After researching on the poverty rates that children are living in today, it’s hard to believe that there could be such a thing as children who are homeless and on the streets. With all the money that runs through the market place today how could any person that’s worth millions or even billions of dollars not want to make enough programs to bring down the poverty rate or almost make homeless children on the streets vanish to what every child should be entitled to which is a the right to an education and a roof over their heads. Also, researching on the Mexican poverty rate in Mexico City amongst children I also discovered that the richest man in the world as of October of 2007 is from Mexico City. Carlos Slim who is a Mexican who runs a cell phone company resides in Mexico City is helping as much as he can, by donating 250,000 laptops to libraries and schools. With that being said, there is someone at least recognizing that it is important for the “future” which is our youth today to have an education to keep the turning point of our world market to get better every generation.