Poverty deprives people of choice.
They lack the power to make their lives better and are confined to repeating behaviour that they frequently know to be detrimental to their well-being. I remember visiting an elderly grandmother living in a poverty stricken part of South Africa. I watched her prepare the midday meal over an open fire built in the middle of the floor in one room of their house. The sun s bright and it s too hot outside . This response helped me realise that human behaviour is far more complicated than we often suppose.