Linds113 tells about poverty and how you can help.

Poverty. According to the Webster's Dictionary, it means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions." When you don't have any or just a little amount of money, you can't buy food to eat. Without anything to eat, you continue to starve, and unless you can find more food within a few weeks, you'll die of hunger. But poverty is more than that. It's people dying because they don't have water (or water that's not clean enough) or a good shelter. It's people not having clean food to eat and develop sicknesses like diarrhea (and they couldn't afford the medicine for those sicknesses).

It just saddens me knowing that at least 70,000 people die of poverty each day. A lot of them are from countries in Africa. Some also come from certain countries in Asia, such as India and China. But anyone can die from poverty almost anywhere.

There are a lot of causes for poverty, but here are some of the most common:

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Cobd helps you write even better articles.

Amanda, Vanilla, Giggler01, TIKE . . . all Times Writers who have at one point in their lives been "Times Writing Legends" in Whyville. Many aspiring Times Writers, including me, would have looked up to them with the desire one day, they could be just like them. I'm writing this article for all you Times Writers out there who want their name to be up on that list. If you're a new writer wondering how you can improve your articles so you can become a Times Writer, check out last week's article ("Top Tips for Times Writers", Article ID: 8119)

You can't just *become* a Times Legend though - you've got to work for it. It takes time, effort and most of all passion. You must be willing to spend more than 10 minutes on your article more than once a year. You must be willing to put all of your concentration into the article and most importantly you've got to sound like you really believe and care for what you are writing about. That's why I don't generally write about fashion or celebrities: it doesn't interest me. If you write an article you have no interest in, it will almost always be uninteresting and readers will not even read your opening paragraph.

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