#EndPovertyinKenya

Issues the World Bank should tackle; Areas that would have the biggest impact on reducing poverty.

Poverty reduction and its end in Kenya is an achievable goal. However, this has become a common song such that  we empathize when it plays and forget everything about it until the song replays. The fight against poverty therefore goes on, year in, year out. I believe that if good measures are taken, poverty will be only but a history.

·         Education

Most of the Kenyans languishing in poverty have  never seen the door of a classroom. Despite the fact that they do not have the fees to pay, there are no schools. This makes it difficult. The pastoralists will turn into herding cattle, others will stay at home. Thus  their basic needs cannot be met.

Give a man a fish, he will have something to eat for a day. Show the man how to fish and he will eat all his life.  The world bank could use this ideology. Instead of always sending aid, invest in educating the people. The young ones should be given an opportunity to go to school, as the old ones are educated on how to make it count. What can they do to help end this? At the end of the day, the fight to end poverty will be fruitless if those in it don't play a role at all. What role to play they don't know. If in a drought stricken area, provide them with irrigation plants, let them water their crops and have something for food. In the long run, the people will learn and even come up with creative ways of sustaining themselves.

The people should be challenged too, to do something in that line. There's need to let them know that they don't have to accept poverty as a part of them, but walk out of that state. Giving them practical lessons on how that can be achieved. Letting them know what to expect if they personally joined in the fight, and how their life will be turned around for the better.

It is difficult to make a person who has lived in poverty all his life believe that there is a way out of it. As they say, seeing is believing. The world bank should aid in educating personnel who will create this awareness, and also those who will work for the project.

Personally, I don't have to be paid to educate a child out of poverty. Given the resources (for instance basic needs), I believe there are more than enough volunteers who can give a hand in this.

This is an issue I think the world bank should highlight.