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Somalian Future of Issue:

A way to make the poverty better and turn it around in Somalia is to treat all citizens equally no matter their age or race. Kids are working in the streets and barely making enough pay to live. Women are unfairly treated causing them to be unable to help out in any way. If there was equality, then the kids could get education or real jobs, and women could also work and earn pay to help provide along side the men. This could clean up the families and tribes so that they could survive without scarcity in food and supplies.

Another way that could uplift Somalia's poverty is to prevent the stronger and bigger tribes from taking over weaker and smaller tribes and their land. When the stronger tribes conquer this land it leaves the weaker tribes with nothing, causing suffering and many problems that eventually lead to a national problem because they try to provide for the weak but can't. The government should promote cooperation between the tribes in order to work together and gather food. By doing this, more food can be produced and less people will suffer.

An idea that would help out Somalia with their poverty issue is to prevent the violence in the country and encourage the people to come together as a nation. There are fights and little battles in Somalia that lead to destruction of their property such as schools, houses, buildings, etc. With no houses or schools, people have no homes or can’t go anywhere for an education.

Foreign involvement could definitely help to turn the situation in Somalia around. The United States had previously tried to help, but was unable to make a difference because of the intense war going on. Now that the situation has calmed slightly, it may be easier for them (and other countries) to get aid to Somalia. Their help could provide much needed food, as the crop harvest in Somalia has yet to completely rebound. It isn’t so much that some people can’t afford food, they simply don’t have enough food. Therefore, foreign aid could help to change that.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo
One way to start fixing poverty and making the future of the issue look brighter is to encourage more foreign involvement. As an international world, we have taken the first step with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approving over US$500 million to go towards the Congo and the PRSF. This will be a big help because there is a plan to be followed over a certain amount of years, and if it’s followed closely by the Congo’s government, then they should be in a much better position than they used to be. Unfortunately, this is not enough, and that’s why individual countries that have more wealth than the Congo, which is just about everyone, should contribute a little to the desperate situation in the Congo. Another point is that every country that is taking natural resources from the Congo for basically nothing should stop. This “trade” is ruining the economy of the Congo because they are rich with a wide variety of natural resources and using that in a normal way could boost their economy in a huge way. This would give them a lot more money and, in turn, that would allow them to deal with the huge poverty problem in a lot of different ways. One more thing that would help would be if all of the Rwandan genocide refugees returned to their home country because they spread a lot of diseases and take up a lot of space. The Congo is still being affected by that, and it would help a lot if they just weren’t there anymore.

Another way to fix poverty in the Congo is to make sure that fair leadership is established and kept throughout the future of the Congo. Corruption has been a big part of their past, and if they have another leader like Mobutu, all of the work that they are doing now to restore prosperity and peace would be moot. The Congo does not have the kind of money to be able to handle another leader stealing about US$5 million from the country. They are in the terrible position that they are now in part to that embezzling of money. The new leaders don’t only need to be honest and trustworthy, but they need to be good, charismatic leaders as well. The Congo needs someone that can take them and get them from where they are to middle of the global economy rankings. The leader right now, Joseph Kabila, is starting that process, but if he ever gets voted out, the new leader cannot bring them back to where they started from. One important thing that definitely needs to stay the same as it is now is the fair, democratic elections. This is a big deal because it lets the Congolese people choose exactly the kind of leader that they want. It gives them a sense of being involved and that their opinions do matter. This means that they are happy with the government and a happy group of people means a good economy and an overall good country.

One more way that the Congo can fix the issue of poverty in their country is through equality. A big issue that needs to be fixed that has to do with equality in the Congo is unusual compared to other countries. The rural areas of the Congo are in a much worse condition than the urban areas are. For example, the rural areas have much less clean drinking water than the urban areas do. Most of the people that live in the urban areas actually have access to clean water facilities, but on the other hand, most people that live in the rural areas do not have much access to those privileges. Another thing is that women and children are not treated fairly. Men are treated better, and they do have more rights than women do. A big example of this is all of the rape that goes on in the Congo as a result of the Rwandan genocide. Unfortunately, these instances haven’t been completely ridden from the Congo yet, and if they would be it would give women more of a chance. Women can contribute to the society greatly, but they haven’t been given the chance in Congo. Women are just expected to be good housewives and to be the very traditional wife. However, if this wasn’t true, then women would be able to contribute to the society and they would make the country as a whole better. There is the same problem with children. Many children are not getting an education and if they are it’s not a very good one. This is not very intelligent planning because if the new generations of children are not educated, then the Congo won’t make the advancements that they should be. Right now, they are setting themselves up to fail. All of this relates to the problem of poverty because if women would be treated as equals then they would be able to assist in creating ways to get the Congo out of poverty. It relates to children because if they had better education then they would be raising the future of their country to be full of smart and responsible people. The future generations of people are easily as important, if not more important than the generations running the country now. If anybody is going to bring Congo out of poverty, it’s going to be the future leaders.