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The Stigma of Poverty.

lovethchizinum.blogspot.com "Poverty is like a disease, you're not cured until you are cured". Poverty sure comes with a stigma on the long run. One can get poor to a point where they no longer think or believe they can ever be anything beyond being poor. There are lots of people out there with this stigma already gaining grounds in their psychological disposition.  I had a conversation with one poor kid during my service year in the nysc and in the course of our conversation she told me she has dreams of going to america someday. As an average Nigerian kid such dreams are completely normal but the one thing wrong with this particular kid's dream is the fact that she thinks she can only achieve this dream when she dies. Now who achieves their dreams when they are dead? "Aunt, america is in heaven right when I die I will go to america", she said. Immediately a tear dropped from my eye and she was only 12 years old. Now her age was not the problem the pro