The poverty to be combated is before the eyes of everyone: hunger, lack of clean water, limited medical care and inadequate shelter, insufficient educational and cultural systems, illiteracy, not to mention also the existence of new forms of poverty “…in advanced wealthy societies, there is evidence of marginalization, as well as affective, moral and spiritual poverty…” (Message for the World Day of Peace, 2009, n. 2).
Umaskini unaotakiwa kupigwa vita uko mbele ya macho ya kila mtu: njaa, kukosa maji safi na salama, uhaba wa matibabu, ukosefu wa makazi, kutotosheleza kwa miundo mbinu ya elimu na tamaduni, kutojua kusoma na kuandika, bila kutaja pia miundo mipya ya umasikini “katika jamii zilizoendelea sana kwa utajiri, kuna ushahidi wa umasikini wa kuwekwa pembezoni, wa kupendelewa, kimaadili, na kiroho” (Message for the World Day of Peace, 2009, n. 2).