There are several types of poverty. They range from systemic poverty, situational poverty to generation poverty and many more! One biggest challenge in the fight against poverty is not understanding why the people are poor and if leadership doesn’t understand why the people are poor, the leadership cannot prescribe the best strategy out of abject poverty. Many will continue giving handouts and harambees (these are short term solutions and doesn’t solve the root problem of poverty) as a solution and yet these have not worked over several leadership eras! In any case, the slavery mentality and dependency syndrome bring a bigger burden of compounding ignorance on top of poverty!

Generational poverty is poverty that is inherited across generations. This can happen because:
Poor parents who know what their children need to succeed academically or economically cannot afford to provide that, such as tuition, books, tutoring, after-school programs, health care, transportation to school, safe housing, clothing, or adequate nutrition.

Parents who are outside social networks that would be useful for economic advancement cannot introduce those children into those networks. In addition, they may not emphasize the value of networking to their children.

Poor parents may pressure older children to drop out of school and work, for immediate wages at the expense of education that could provide higher long-term wages.

Parents who have themselves not attended secondary education, may not realize the advantages of attendance, and may not know when or how to apply.

Poorly educated parents might not know how to nurture the cognitive development of their children, and might be less able to provide educational assistance like help with homework.

Parents who have made poor personal decisions may be bad role models for success, for example normalizing financial mismanagement or substance abuse.

Parents unable to work because of cultivating dependency syndrome on others, like the chief, pastors, politicians etc when they are unable to provide on-time it affects the education of the children -and these could be single parents, or parents not creative or innovative enough to use their time wisely, or those that abuse their bodies, foods, drinks and drugs.

Child abuse creates a number of physical and psychological problems that increase the probability of growing up poor, and the vast majority of abusive parents were themselves abused as children.
Basic courses for parents like financial literacy and soft skills training make a huge difference. By providing education, training, financial and nutritional support and a little human kindness, we can break the cycle of generational poverty.