Poverty is the major cause of human trafficking. Justify in 50-100 words.

Poverty simply means not having enough money that can be used to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.

Poverty is the major cause of human trafficking. It's because of poverty that there's a rise in human trafficking.

People want to have better lives and travel to places where there'll be an improvement in standard of living. This has led to the rise of human trafficking.

Poverty can drive people to become traffickers, drive parents to sell their children into slavery. Those suffering from poverty are usually targeted by traffickers as a means of exploitation.

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.