There is such a country where the people live in povertyThere is not a serious bed in the house, eating a bite of meat is considered a luxury "New Year".Even ordinary people can be considered "luxury cars" if they have a bicycleYou can't even run fast.
That country is Burundi, one of the least developed countries in the worldHow poor is Burundi and what is their real living environment?
Republic of Burundi,Located in east-central Africa, the land area is only 2An area of about 70,000 square kilometersThe small country alone has a population of about 12.6 million people
Although there is less land and more people, butBurundi is rich in mineral resources, nickel ore, quagmire, ** are widely distributed, and the storage and mining volume are large.
With such abundant mineral resources, it stands to reason that the country's economy will not be so bad, butWhy are people still living in poverty?
They don't have easy access to transportationThe terrain of Burundi is mostly plateau or mountainousTheir industrial plants are not perfect.
Even if there are more advanced machines to mine, to transfer these resources by road, then they willFacing high shipping costs, which is not cost-effective.
Ninety percent of the people are farmers growing food, corn, soybeans, potatoes, grain production is higherBasically, the whole family makes a living from farming.
Their level of agriculture is actually not as good as ours in the sixties and seventies, their level of agricultural production is very backward.
Add to this the occasional natural disaster, the condition of the land itself, theirAgricultural production is not high,The income is not rich either.
To say that they don't have animal husbandry, in fact they have it, inIn the beginning, there were still a lot of animals in the land.
Some animals can produce milk and allow people to eat meat as a result, but due to the poor environmental conditionsIt is difficult for animals to survive here, and animal husbandry is slowly declining.
It is precisely because of the underdeveloped animal husbandry that soPeople can't eat meat regularlyEating meat is really a luxury, even for themIf you pay your salary, you won't have the luxury of buying meat to eat, because their living environment is not supportive.
When it comes to wages, you might think, theyAt least 1,000 dollars a month, but not really, more than 1,000 yuan is equivalent to their average annual income.
Converted,They only have about 100 yuan a monthThey had to take the only 100 dollarsFeed a large family.
They're not looking for something better, they're afterThere is a better way to earn money to support their family.
We were the most common in the countryside beforeThe house is a thatched house, or unplastered brick houses, which are everywhere in Burundi.
Burundi also has more developed cities, where the houses are more intact and the brick houses are located on that landIt's just that the people who don't fit in are still walking on the road.
It is worth mentioning that they countryDon't let people run,The people who set this rule believe that if you don't run, there will be no conflictOr to prevent the war
In most areas, people's houses are not called housesIt can only be said that it is a place to live, those who are in relatively good condition will live in relatively dilapidated brick houses.
There is no specific layout of the houseThere is no kitchen dedicated to cooking, and cooking is still in the open air.
There was not a single comfortable and soft bed in the roomThose with cloth will be spread on the ground as mattressesThen I put on another cloth and went to sleep.
In addition to these houses, there are many other kinds of houses that they have carefully built to live inIn order to survive, they also thought of various ways.
Women generally run the household at home and help their husbands share the unsatisfactory aspects of life.
Most of them travel on their own feet, there is no means of transportation, where you willIt is not uncommon to see people with a small basket on their heads.
The living conditions are not good, and they do not have extra cleaning care and other supplies, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble,They had to cut their hair short.
In addition, another main purpose of women cutting their hair short is to be able to secure the small basket on the top of their head, which cannot be fittedIt will be directly on the head and walk on its own feet.
In one village, most of the young and vigorous men went out to work, except to earn money to support their familiesYou also need to come up with some of the money to buy a bike
The two-eight bar bike is an old thing for us, for themIt is the main means of transportation.
Their living environment and economic conditions do not allow them to have more convenient and advanced cars, and having bicycles is not for the convenience of travelRather, it is for ease of transportation.
Strapped to the back seat of their bike with their abundant produce,You have to tie a lot to the back seat.
They are bicycle movers, in order to save time going back and forth,Even "hitching" a car back and forth is too risky.
The living conditions are relatively poor, and the food is not very nutritious, so people's physical conditions are relatively poorAround 60 years old is considered a high life expectancy for them.
Adults are busy for the sake of the family, in order to raise the family, but the children of BurundiIt's not completely burden-free.
Maybe in their mindset, having children will be more laborable, so locally,Every family will have more children.
The mother was pregnant for ten months, and the food was not very nutritious, so from birth,Children are under pressure to survive.
The family is not very wealthy, but the parentsWe also try to educate our childrenand, in general, theirThe level of scientific research is only at the beginning.
Parents eat what children eat, and they don't say that because you are a child, you have to eat betterWhat is given to the child is only the best that the parents can give in this condition.
They don't have any serious toys eitherToys are made from objects of heaven and earth, with clean levels made into a simple car toy.
Bicycle tires that can't be used are used as hoop rolling toys as our childhood.
They don't want to get out of the predicamentIt's just that they have fewer tools for developmentMost people do not have a high level of culture and do not have the brains to figure out how to update the quality of food.
It is understoodMy country has helped the Burundian country to grow rice for food, which has greatly increased the food production of their country.
Some people want to say that the living conditions here are not as good as those of us in the fifties and sixties, in that ordinary and simple eraIt's just getting started.
Compared with Burundi, our living conditions are better, our medical education is good, and our thinking is more progressiveEverything that is considered ordinary is a luxury in Burundi.
We should reflect more, not to say that we say we sympathize with them, but that we should cherish the presentAt least not to waste food and resources.