Poverty in DR

My parents are responsible for raising me in a “bubble”. I go to school in a car with a driver, and then go home. I saw the kids asking for money in the streets, but it wasn’t until I could take some decisions myself, that I actually discovered the reality of my country.The cristal waters and the soft sand of the Dominican Republic try to cover up the many issues the island is drowning in. Nevertheless, there is one predominant issue throughout the island: Poverty. The population in the Dominican Republic is drowning in poverty and we need solutions to the problem. Today in class we saw a documentary with Thought For Food about a competition regarding food scarcity and what could be done to feed 9 billion people. Poverty stricken families in the Dominican Republic have no access to food most of the days. Due to this, I believe that the solutions should start small. It is our duty as privileged citizens to try to help the community around us. Furthermore, it is my time to pop that bubble my parents have shielded me with and start helping those poverty stricken children. If I live in the same country as those poverty stricken families, they also have the right to receive food and water and have a healthy lifestyle to break the chain of poverty they are predestined to lock even before birth.