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Poverty is the label of a wretched beggar. It is also a disease that runs from the mind and out to the physical environment.
In its adverse state, when the body and mind is being tortured, irrational and vicious strategy may come to play. For instance, theft, prostitution, ritual killing, or eventually from deep depression to suicide etc.
Gladly, Obi didn't resort to any of the above. Hunger delivered him from being stagnant. How?
Staying on a low income that could hardly take care of him and his family, dragged him to owing so much debt. He was embarrassed almost anywhere he went.
New year's eve and new year was celebrated in hunger. No food and no one to turn to. He had gotten tired of church deliverance meeting because the last one he attended left him skeptical about their activities. He was asked, with some others to get some sum of money. But where can a hungry man get that amount, five thousand naira?
Anyway, he didn't care if God wanted to live or not. He chose to survive. His wife and children were assisting too. They didn't have to do anything illegal or immoral all the way but were faithful.
Entering that year with hunger opened his eyes to that strength within him. He decided to change. Changing his belief system and believing that life is much more than eat and die; that poverty was no longer about money, but about what he chose to believed and lived by.
That realisation brought about a transformation, and a willingness to change his attitude towards life.

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