Poverty is not a problem that has nothing to do with you but neighbors on you.

MOYAI

 

 

From a lecture book about poverty issues, "Sir, what is poverty?" of NPO corporation Independent Living Support Center, "MOYAI."  If we call  what we can rely on when we are in difficulties such as help from family and friends, a decent educational environment, securing employment, and institutional protection, "reservoir", the state of losing the "reservoir" is poverty. In that sense, "economic poverty" is intricately intertwined with "poverty of connection."

 

"January 21  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"