Recent reporting from South Africa's hunger crisis has documented people making desperate decisions simply to put food on the table.
Some sell possessions.
Some borrow.
Some depend on neighbours.
Some go without food themselves s
o their
children can eat.
And some are pushed into situations they would never have considered if they weren't desperate.
That's something worth remembering when we talk about poverty.
Poverty isn't simply having less money.
Poverty can take away choices.
It can turn survival into the only goal.
And when survival becomes the goal, everything else becomes secondary.
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