Guns, Germs, and Steel.

In the movie, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", I learned the reason why some parts of the world are less poor than other parts. The reason is that every part of the world developed differently according to to its spot on the Earth. Not every place on the Earth has the same climate. The location on the line of latitude has a very large influence on how places develop. Some areas of the world do not have all the resources they need to be very successful. They have to work much harder than other places, so they are not as advanced as the others.


In Gambia, Africa, there are steps being taken to reduce poverty there. Also, to help improve social services. One of the several reasons for poverty, is that most of the households are too large. A way to fix the size of these houses would be to het the families to stop being so big. Which causes the families to have less money. Agro-Enterprise is an organization that is helping poor families get fed if they are too large or do not have the sufficient amount of money to buy the food. They want to help them because they have to work very hard to feed and give a good education to all of their children. Most of the children can not get a good education because they have to stay home to help raise money for their family.
The Gambian Flag

A typical street in Gambia.


I think that the impact of "geographic luck" is very unfair. There is nothing we can really do to fix it. We have to understand why some places are less poor than others and not just say the people are lazy. The global inequalities that result from it are that areas of the world such as Africa are that they can not have education like us. Also, they can not all have good jobs or good health. They can not have a good health because the few hospitals there are, are faraway from the cities or towns.
http://https//www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr0976.pdf
http://http//www.concernuniversal.org/index.php?/where_we_work/gambia/projects
http://http//web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20204377~isCURL:Y~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367,00.html