Drama: Poverty

by Frank Lavoine

Poverty finally caught up with me. I've been racing all of my life to avoid the dreaded quagmire of one day being penniless. Three months ago, my nightmare came true. Right now, I'm writing this in the New York Public L...read more

by Sheena

Bisa curled up on the mattress and pulled her shawl around her to keep her warm. It was a very cold night and life would be very difficult tonight if she didn't have this shawl, it was given to her by Doris in a moment of ...read more

by Gary Davis

Even though we were definitely "poverty-stricken"; I know we didn't understood poverty as it is exhibited in some third-world countries. Even so, poverty scarred me. My dad was an alcoholic so there were times that he wo...read more

by Sara Sota

Poverty -This Way Out. Four years ago we had over 40,000 debt. It looked like an impossible impassable mountain in front of us, but we did not want to declare bankruptcy. I was angry and I wanted to blame someone-him...read more

by Anele

Shivering from the unbearable hunger pangs, and the harshness of the night, she cuddles and rocks her five-year-old brother to sleep. She cannot stop her teeth from rattling, but she will stop the tears that threaten to sp...read more

by Linda Atalig

As I was waiting for my client to arrive, a Native American man came by my car window and shyly asks if I could roll the window down. He seemed like he wanted to ask something. Trustingly, I roll down my window and he ex...read more

by Ronald Claiborne

It is still amazing to me that a whole family of individuals did not realize they were living in poverty. For years I thought my family was normal. I thought we were not allowed to go to a lot of places because we had to...read more

by Janvi Nagpure

Have you ever gone through interrogation by a beggar? Have you seen how beggar looks like? Have you begged for a little thing? I have gone through all this situations. So many questions were arising in my mind when I saw ...read more