What Poverty can make people do

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Poverty compels woman to swallow toxic pills

LAHORE - A widow and mother of two babies committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills after she could not pay house rent due to poor financial constraints in Shahdara area on Saturday.
Zarina Bibi, 32, used to work in various houses to earn her livelihood.
The police said the victim woman’s husband had died a couple of years back. Since then she was working as housemaid for the survival of her two minor children.
“No one could imagine agonies of a mother who left her children at the mercy of the other people and ended her life as she had miserably failed to bring food for her children”, a police investigator commented.
He said Zarina was living in a rented house and could not arrange money to pay house rent, which was the main cause behind her tragic incident.
The police investigator said she had left her house early on Saturday and returned home in sheer disappointment. Her children started crying for food but she had nothing to feed them.
Meanwhile, owner of the house also demanded house rent.
Zarina locked herself in a room of her house and swallowed poisonous pills. Her neighbours rushed to the house on hearing hue and cry of the children and found Zarina unconscious. They immediately shifted her to a nearby hospital but to no avail as she had died on the way.
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[Comet]

This happened in one of the states where there is a feamle CM & one of the Indian members told that she is involved in corruption of about 500 corore Rupees, u cant expect anything from these bloody politicians any where...

My point is that why the political parties alway look for power to help others. They can be of help to others without the power. This way they can secure their vote bank. Instead what they do is they start campaign near elections and all their campaign consists of humiliating other party and criticizing its policies.

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Thank you emo_girl for bringing this up. I understand what these families, fathers, mothers, daughters and sons go through. They sell themselves to FOREIGNERS for a BUCK. I've seen so many people around me EXPLOITING others, and it angers me to the core! That is why I've dedicated my life to making a positive change to the world.

Because I KNOW what really happens behind the scene, I don't make stupid assumptions. These eyes of mine has witnessed so many horrible things. That is why I don't back down from bullies or those who exploit others. They can't scare me, and they can't blackmail me!

 

[AliFarooq]

Man must choose between selling kidney or child - CNN.com
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SARGODA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney.
This man's landlord forced him to pay off money he borrowed for his children's medical bills.

This man's landlord forced him to pay off money he borrowed for his children's medical bills.
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For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option. Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests. The sale will net him between $1,100 and $1,600.

"What's incredible here is the law that bans the operation he's going to go through came into place in 2007," said CNN's Nic Robertson. "He's still able to go to a doctor, the doctors given him advice, that's what he has to do under law... He's going to make money out of it 100,000-150,000 rupees, and that is absolutely illegal. Yet, in just a few days, he's expecting to sell his kidney."

Iqbal was not alone in facing this difficult decision. Others in Pakistan's rural heartland have opted to sell their kidneys.

One of them was Rab Nawas, who was deep in debt about a year ago to his landlord after borrowing money to pay for his wedding and to cover medical bills for his wife and six children. He, too, faced the choice: sell his children, his wife or a kidney. Photo See photos of Pakistan's impoverished kidney donors »

"I am helpless. Should I sell my children? Should I go sell my children? So, it's better I sell my kidney. I had to return the money," said Nawas, who now bears a foot-long scar that wraps around from his back to his belly and is too weak to work the same hours he could before. Video Watch Nawas show his operation scar »

People bearing the tell-tale scar of an organ removal in the villages around the farm where Nawas works are not hard to find. At one point, there were about 2,000 transplants a year -- with 1,500 of them going to what the government said were so-called "transplant tourists."

The 2007 law was aimed at ending Pakistan's dubious status as one of the world's leading organ bazaars.
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Nawas sold his kidney after the law was passed and said the procedure was performed at the Rawalpindi Kidney Center in the northern city of Rawalpindi.

When he went to the Rawalpindi center, after CNN asked him to show where the procedure was done, he said a doctor told him they did not have a record of his operation because they destroy such records when a patient leaves.
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The Rawalpindi clinic -- which prior to the law was a leading user of purchased kidneys -- told CNN that it abides by the law and does not get involved in deals between kidney donors and recipients.

"Standing there it's hard for me to fully understand the courage it took for him to make the journey. In this country, he has few rights, and even less security," said CNN's Robertson.

 

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Nepalese sell kidneys to beat poverty

Man Dhoj Tamang cuts a forlorn figure as he stands in front of his house in central Nepal, overlooking a valley of lush green rice fields.

The area's beauty hides an ugly reality symbolised by a 20-centimetre scar near Mr Tamang's abdomen.

The gaunt 42-year-old, who looks a decade older, sold a kidney in 2000 to raise money to pay off a family debt and buy a piece of land in the village of Shikharpur, 60 kilometres east of Kathmandu.

Mr Tamang, who is unemployed, received 70,000 Nepali rupees ($A930) for his kidney, cleared his family's debt and gave the remainder to a broker to buy his dream plot of land for farming. The broker disappeared with the money.

"I'm finished. I lost a kidney and I don't have the land I paid for," Mr Tamang, wearing a brown cotton vest and a pair of faded shorts, said in front of his thatched-roof house with its mud and stone walls.

Mr Tamang is far from the only person to have sold a kidney in Nepal, one of the world's 10 poorest countries.
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There are 33 others in the village of about 3000 people who have sold their kidneys to either rich Nepalis or Indians who are ready to pay up to 180,000 Nepali rupees to brokers to buy a kidney for themselves or for their relatives.

In Nepal and more economically developed India it is illegal to sell or buy the organs.

The offence is punishable by fines and jail sentences of up to five years, although in Nepal one can legally donate a kidney to a relative who urgently needs the organ to save their life.

But with hundreds of people in the region in desperate need of kidney transplants, many choose the illegal route and deals are done in secrecy in both countries, with middlemen scouring villages looking for donors.

"Villagers, mired in deep-rooted poverty, are lured by local middlemen into selling kidneys for money," said Badri Prasad Dhungana, who has tracked the sale of kidneys in the village for many years.

Locals say one reason why so many people have sold their kidneys in Shikharpur is its high level of unemployment, backwardness and yet, at the same time, its relative proximity to Kathmandu, which makes the rural hamlet attractive to brokers.

Pratap Lama, 27, said he grabbed the chance to sell his kidney.

"If you can live with one kidney, why not sell the other and make some money," said the farm labourer.

"What else can you do when you have nothing to support your family?" asked Mr Lama.

- Reuters
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[DaRk WaVe]

Tamil Nadu villagers sell organs to survive acute poverty

Chennai, Jan.9 (ANI): Poor villagers in Tamil Nadu have been selling their organs in Chennai, the kidneys in particular, for mere rupees 20,000.
There are hundreds of villages around the Kalrayan Hills and Kallakkurichi region in Tamil Nadus Villupuram District, where human organs are being sold.
These villages include Pillaiyar Kunu, Narayana Kunnu, Eduthuvaanatham, Puthukuttai, Pachara Palalaya and Mann Manal where life is miserable. To earn money everyone heads to Chennai, the State capital, 250 kilometres away.
The common reason cited by villagers for selling their organs is destitution.
“I am a resident of this village. Due to our poor economical conditions, I went to Chennai for work. There I came to know about this kidney selling. One of the brokers took me to a hospital and after taking my kidney, he took Rs.5000, and I was given Rs.20, 000 for that kidney, said Sinnathu Moopar, a villager who sold his kidney.
With that money I was able to fulfil the needs of my family. In this village, lot of people have given their kidneys,” Moopar added.
Innocent villagers, unaware of the money involved in the entire kidney trade, settle for a paltry amount offered to them by the middlemen.
“I went to Chennai to work as labour. There they told me that I could sell my kidney for now. Since my family is poor, I sold my kidney. They told me they will give rupees 30,000 but they gave me only rupees 25,000,” said Ramayee, another villager who sold off her kidney.
Kidney trade in Tamil Nadu has increased a lot during recent years.
In Chennai, there has hardly been any complaints lodged against the middlemen or doctors or hospitals involved in the kidney racket.
Kidney commerce in Tamil Nadu has increased a lot during recent years. From each village of the Villupuram District are at least 10 persons who have parted with their kidneys and settled for lesser amount than promised.
Despite the State’s adaption of Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 that laid down regulation of removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs, Chennai continues to be the centre of trade in human organs.
Brokers function in such a way that the names of the hospitals and the doctors involved are never leaked out. Urban slums too have become the target of the kidney wheeler-dealers. (ANI)

Tamil Nadu villagers sell organs to survive acute poverty

 

[DaRk WaVe]

My point is that why the political parties alway look for power to help others. They can be of help to others without the power. This way they can secure their vote bank. Instead what they do is they start campaign near elections and all their campaign consists of humiliating other party and criticizing its policies.

What can i say.....
these politicians are Humans but they don't have even a 'bit' of humanity left in them...

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Curse of poverty: Mother killed her daughters

Bhbaneswar,5/11(Lambodar Prasad Dash):In a shocking incident at kendrapara district a mother killed her three daughters . this incedent came to limelight today early in the morning . When a group of villgers found two dead bodies floating in the village pond. Immediatelly hey informed local police station. After few minutes interrogation the lady told the details of his motive behind the murder.

Curse of poverty: Mother killed her daughters

 

[AHMED85]

In Pakistan the ratio of poverty has been increasing day by day and it laid the peoples to more crime suicide.
But our rulers seem to makes very carelessly in this regard.
According to sociology poverty is evil in society who can destroyed the whole network.
When this situation going high in intensity it create the situation that peoples are most restless, angry, and crazy. So that all who’s are influenced they committed for crime its include suicide and so forth.

(IQBAL SAYS)

FITRAT KO KAHRD KAI RO BARO KAR
MAQAM TASKER RANG BO KAR

TO APNI KHUDI KO KHOH CHOKA HAI
KHOI HOI CHAIZ KAI ARZO KAR

TARON KAI FAZAI HAI PAKRANA
TO BAI YAI MAQAMI ARZO KAR

KAM GOI NAHAI AGARCHI FATRAT TARI
JOI IS SAI NAI HO WO TO KAR


DEAR OUR LEADER RUN AWAY FROM PAKISTAN SO
WE MAKE TO RESOLVING THIS POVERTY SO FOLLOWING ABOVE VERSES.