Poverty Reflection
During this project I learned a lot of information and new facts that I didn’t know before about poverty. My knowledge and information before I did this project on poverty wasn’t much. I knew it was pretty bad in B.C but I never knew Canada was one of the worst in the world. Since Canada is a first world country I always thought they would be more developed but from what I read they aren’t. I learned that people living in poverty only make about $21,000 a year compared to the average family that makes $72,000 a year. The low income families would need to make $8,000 more to not be considered in the low income area. I never took into account on how much of a gap there is of low income between the poor and average families. I didn’t know that 882,000 Canadians relied on the food bank for their basic dietary requirements in 2012. One shocking face that I learned was that Canada ranks last out of 25 developed countries meeting early childhood development objectives such as food, shelter, and education. From these facts and information my understanding of poverty has evolved. We live with lots of misinformation because most of us aren’t shown, know, or realize the true facts on what’s going on here in Canada or anywhere else. The internet is a big influence because anyone can post things on there where everyone can read it and where most believe it. From determining what is true and not, I learned to be more careful on what I read on the internet and choose
