By Rola KitaphanichBlock A

• The dictionary’s definition is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.

• It is when a person doesn’t have any money to support and buy the basic necessities that they need in order for them to survive

Poverty Complications

• When a family deals with poverty there are deprived out of many things

• How are they going to access clean drinking water

• What about education and educating the kids• Food, where are we going to get the money to

buy food• Clothes and other basic necessities, we can’t

afford those

The Growing issue in the World

• Poverty is a serious global issue that is only worsening every minute

• Every year there are over 9 million people who die because of hunger and malnutrition. That is way too many . The sad part is that 40-50 percent of the food ready for harvest in the US never gets eaten. Wow. Imagine how many people we could feed with all that wasted food.

The Wealthy and the Poor• The Wealthy people in the world are asking why they should help

the poor. It is the powerful that are criticizing the poor for not being able to get a job.

• Consider this “we have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population.…In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.…To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives.…We should cease to talk about vague and… unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”-George Kennan, US department policy planning

Poverty in Industrialized Countries

• Poverty not only occurs in developing countries but also industrialized countries

• Places in the US and Europe, the poor are not getting the attention and necessities that they need

• A European Union report shows that UK is the worst place in Europe for the poor to grow up in.

What Can We Do?

• You can support to end poverty charities and campaigns , every bit counts

(e.g.: Make Poverty History, End Child Poverty)• Stop wasting food!• Educate people about this issue

Solving World Hunger doesn’t Solve World Poverty

• You have to remember that solving world hunger (providing more food, harvesting more) doesn’t tackle or resolve the issue of poverty itself. Sure you solve the hunger problems but you still can’t provide millions of people enough money for them to survive on

• To solve world hunger in the long run, poverty needs to be resolved first

Some Startling Facts

• Half the world, that is nearly three billion people live on less than two dollars a day

• 854 million people across the world are hungry

• Everyday approximately 16,000 children die from a hunger related cause. That is one child every 5 seconds

Some Startling Facts

• The top one percent of the world’s richest people earn as much as the poorest 57 percent

• Around six billion people in the world, at least 1.2 billion do not have access to safe drinking water

• Of the 49 least developed countries, 31 receive less aid than they did in 1990