Eng 302Project subject:Poverty

Prepared by :

1) 25-2011 Ahmed Ehab El-Bitar2) 31-2011 Yahya Awaad Badran3) 44-2011 Suliman Tariq Suliman4) 118-2011 Mohammed El-Sayed Fath El-bab5) 120-2011 Faris Nasser Al-Mosrea’

Class : 6 - 2

Supervised by : Mr. Sadik Shamtoot

Index

Introduction

How poverty started

Causes of poverty

Video

Where is poverty?

Effects of poverty

Solution in donating

References

Recommendations Conclusion

Introduction

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have: food and water, shelter, education, medical

care, security, etc. Poverty exceeds all social, economic, and political boundaries. So that, efforts to reduce poverty must be informed of a variety of different factors.

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How world poverty started

World poverty started from lots of things like people wasting food which is a overall high of 20-38 billion dollars of food thrown away every year. It is also caused by war which a lot of people lose there houses and businesses. It is caused from drought and when your crops don’t grow you can’t sell any food .

Causes of poverty

Nowadays poverty around the world is increasing in a serious way because of many reasons ,some of them :

- Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.

- About 39% of marriage couples get divorce every year leaving lots of homeless kids.

- Also, many children are homeless nowadays because of teenagers pregnancy from illegal relationships.

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Complement : Causes of poverty

- unemployment issue is one of the most important causes of poverty as it leaves its effect on the whole family.

- increasing in population and decreasing in recourses has left a lot of poor peoples with no food .

- Discrimination based on religion and colour has left lots of poor, homeless and jobless people and much more rich and high classes people on the other side in an unfair way.

- low salaries and expensive life needs is one of the issues that causes poverty, especially in our Arabian countries.

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Where is world poverty?

World poverty is all around the world but mostly in Africa, South America, Europe and Asia. We don’t have much world poverty in North America and there's not much world poverty in Australia.

Effects of povertyPoverty caused by many reasons as we mentioned before .However, poverty increases these reasons by making them become its effects as well as it its reasons but in a wider area and that is because if there is a virus with no solution it will absolutely spread. And from these effects :

- Lack of education.

- Lots of homeless persons.

- Racial and gender discrimination.

- Low intelligence.

- Low initial economic status.

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Effects of poverty on lives And when we come to humans souls we should say that World Poverty is killing lots people, it kills 30,000 children every day.Millions are dying on a regular basis because they can't get enough food, clean water, or basic medical supplies. Millions of people are dying from diseases that would cost PENNIES to vaccinate against. There are 1.2 billion people suffering from hunger.

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Solution in donating

The best solution to stop the World Poverty is by donating money to campaigns that help world poverty. We can build shelters for families that can’t afford a home. If we all work together we can help end world poverty.

recommendations

- VolunteerYou can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, and employment centres.

- Join a CampaignThere are a number of different local and national campaigns that you can join to help combat poverty.

- Organize a RallyA rally is great way to raise awareness about homelessness in your community. A large gathering of people shows solidarity for a cause, and is a great way to get the attention of the media, businesses, local legislature, and other concerned community members.

- Write an ArticleAn article to your local newspaper about homelessness in your community is a great way to spread the word, and to personalize the matter with statistics and facts that hit close to home.

Donating........ Is that's all ?!We say no, there is much more to do to reduce poverty issue :

Source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XldM4DtlA-Y

Conclusion

poverty is a big complicated problem. everyone of us is responsible about these lives that get

lost everyday because of poverty in many locations ,so please do your best, or do whatever

you can to save even one innocence poor soul from its certain death.

Wikipedia the free encyclopedia .

www.statisticbrain.com/world-poverty-statistics/

www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Hunger/Causes.asp

References

After all, we hope that our project has earned your admiration and may the peace and

blessings of God be upon you .