the ultimate poverty is spiritual

Poverty was a big issue
when l became a professional
 youthworker in 1985
STILL it here

The Brandt Report and research by UNA clearly indicate the urban poor worldwide have in common:

• feelings of powerlessness, insignificance, frustration, and despair

• fearfulness of the future

• low health expectation

• inadequate housing

• unemployment or underemployment

• insufficient money

• poor provision for education

• a higher rate of crime

• political turmoil

The reports do not mention

Emotional literacy or Spiritual poverty.

Neither do the UK statistics on Urban Deprivation.

if l can just make it through the next few weeks

A poverty that imprisons the spirit the ultimate poverty is spiritual