We don't notice poverty in the same way that we notice natural disasters because it has always been here and there's a general feeling that there's nothing we can do about it. Because we feel we can't do anything, it continues to always be here - the archetypal vicious circle.
You do start to prick your ears up when you realise that poverty is not just something that happened in Dickensian times and is not confined only to so-called Third World countries. Poverty is right here and with us now. In the UK today there are 3.8 million children and young people living in poverty. The figure seems incredible, outrageous even. How can we expect these young people to contribute to society when they are barely part of it?
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