Stressors in life

This weeks blog asked to describe a stressor that affected either myself or someone I knew. I chose the stressor of poverty. Out of all the stressors I am grateful to say that none of these apply to me personally growing up. I did have one friend that grew up in poverty. She never had the nicest clothes    or material things but she was always a great friend to me. She was always moving to different houses whether it was to a housing apartment or to a family members home. She never had money to do certain things for school functions and my friend could often not participate and have the things that most of our class had. As a child, I never recognized that she was living with basically the clothes on her back and the shoes on her feet. I never treated her differently. I believe and still do believe that she was the same as me or anyone of her classmates. Her and I are still friends and now she is a manager at her work for five years now. She has had many hardships in her life because of poverty. She has worked very hard as an adult to make sure her kids don't have to live in the same issues as she did. 


Africa is the worlds poorest continent and every third African does not have enough food. ( Church, 2011) A main reason Africa is living in poverty is due to harsh environment conditions. A statistic shows that one in six African children die before the age of five. A main thing is hydration for these children. 43 percent of children in Africa do not have safe accessible drinking water. (Mm Brico, 2006) The difference between my friend and these African children is the fact that money was an issue for my friend to be provided her basic needs. While in Africa the main reason is due to the environment and the lack of resources.