The introduction of poverty in the world has greatly affected the populations of humanity. According to the United Nations, every day more than 21,000 people lose their lives due to hunger. Precisely, that's one person every four seconds. Yet there is plenty of food for everyone in the world. The cause is that hungry people are trapped in severe and difficult poverty with no way out. The lack of money to feed themselves makes them increasingly weaker. All this translates into a society with less and less capacity to work and produce and often represents a downward spiral for them. “What a tiring time those years were: having the desire and need to live but not the ability.” (Bukowski, 1982) The poorest people have the least access to healthcare, education and many other services that are the right of every human being. They are also banned and excluded from society and have little or no voice in public and social debates, making it even more difficult to escape poverty. Of the 1.9 billion children in the developed world today, there are 640 million without adequate housing, 400 million without access to clean water and 270 million abandoned without health services. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book. Less than 1% of what the world spent on weapons was needed to send all children to school, but that didn't happen. It is believed that approximately 27-28% of all children in developed countries are underweight. Based on enrollment data, approximately 72 million primary school-age children in developing countries were out of school in 2005; 57% of them were girls. And these are considered optimistic numbers. Worldwide, 2.2 million children die from every sin... middle of paper... living on a thin line between life and death. This type is an eternal term in nature, but is not common in the developed world. Relative poverty, the second type, is usually in relation to other members of society. For example, someone may be considered poor if they cannot afford a holiday abroad, or cannot buy Christmas presents, or cannot send their children to university. However, they have access to basic necessities thanks to government support. The third is situational poverty where families may be poor due to events such as earthquakes, floods and other severe problems. They can get some help to save themselves, since the cause of their poverty was an unfortunate event. Finally, chronic poverty. This type of poverty has no escape and people are trapped by it with no access to help.