Everyday, she would get up at 6 A.M. and walk a mile to milk her cows, then she would walk back home and head to the town hoping for a sale. Some days she would sit out in the hot sun all day, not making a single sale. Then one day the USAID came to her city and sought to find her, they had found a market owner who was willing to buy her milk daily and sell it in his store. From their, Baneta’s life was starting to improve, she was able to maintain a steady income and could support her family in many and most ways possible. Stories like Banetas have become very common in the past decade and more and more people are able to pull themselves out of extreme poverty and can live off of more than 1.90$ a day or more. In 1990 an estimated 37% or 1.9 billion people were living in poverty. But today only 10% or 700 million are living in poverty. The numbers are still being crunched because within everyday we are trying to pull more and more people out of extreme poverty and support them with better access to drinking water and other appliances. “What we have seen in the last two decades has been remarkable. Never before have we seen so many people being pulled out of poverty in such a short period of time” - Aaron …show more content…
To end poverty would mean so much of the world, showing that we can work together as one and revive the community. We can always make a difference and if we take an extra step we can achieve anything and show that we are more than just people living off of a system created by a