India Paragraph

India is a developing country that has a very large population of over one billion people.  There are so many people living in the country that there are not enough resources to go around, and many of the people live in poverty.  Unemployment and starvation are major problems in India, and the people are taken advantage of because they will do almost anything to survive.

There are many people living in India who don’t have the basic things that they need to survive.  Many people don’t have nice houses or healthy living conditions.   They live in areas outside of the main cities called slums.  The people make some sort of shelter out of whatever materials they can find.  Their houses are made from a lot of different things, like scrap pieces of metal, old pieces of wood, pieces of garbage, and other miscellaneous things that they find.  The slums do not have good sanitation or electricity, and diseases spread easily.  India was already struggling to provide needed resources to the people before its population began to rapidly increase.  There isn’t enough food, water, and other necessities that people need to survive.  As the population continues to grow, the resources that are available for each person decrease even more.  This forces more people into poverty, and many become beggars.  They ask their own people and tourists for food, water, money, and other things that they need.

Another problem that the people of India face is unemployment.  There are so many people living in the country that there are not enough jobs to go around.    The people can’t find jobs, so they can’t make any money.  This causes them to struggle to be able to buy food and other necessities that they need to survive.  Many of the people who do have jobs don’t make enough money to support their families.  Sometimes families make their children work because the family needs more money.  Children often work in factories and in other harsh conditions that are very dangerous.  Parents have many children because the death rate in India is so high.  The more children they have, the greater the chance that a few will past childhood.  Also, more children means there are more people who can work to help earn money for the family.  The problem is that these families who keep having children are making the population of India grow even faster and this causes even more problems because resources are even harder to find as the population grows.  It is a cycle that continues to make things worse and the problems continue to grow.

The need for employment forces some people to make choices they might not otherwise make.  Human trafficking is a huge problem in India.  In addition to being forced by their families to work at an early age in unsafe conditions, children are often sold into slavery.  There are also many orphans in India, so they don’t have any family to protect them from being exploited.  In order to survive, they have to do whatever they can to get their basic needs met.  They are taken from their homes and moved to other areas or countries where they are made to work dangerous and unpleasant jobs.  Adults are also victims of human trafficking.  The people are so poor and have so little that there isn’t anything they can do to prevent these things from happening to them.