Powerpoint about Poverty.

1. Poverty
Done by: Ryan Heng, Bong Teck
En, Joven Tan Jun Wei, Goh Chin Wei

2. What is poverty?
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain
amount of material possessions or money.
Absolute Poverty or destitution refers to the
deprivation of basic human needs , which
commonly includes food, water , sanitation,
clothing, shelter, health care and education.

3. Poverty
• Poverty is the inability of getting choices and
opportunities, a violation of human dignity
which also means lack of basic capacity to
participate effectively in society.
• Not having enough to feed and clothe a
family, not having a school or clinic to go
to, not having the land on which to grow one’s
food or a job to earn one’s living, not having
access to credit.

4. Poverty
• It means insecurity, powerlessness and
exclusion of individuals, households and
communities which also means
insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of
individuals, households and communities.

5. Extreme Poverty
• The dollar a day poverty line measured
absolute poverty by the standards of the
world’s poorest countries. The World Bank
defined the new international poverty line as
$1.25 a day for 2005 but have recently been
updated to be $1.25 and $2.50 per day.

6. Effects of Poverty
• Each year many children and adults die as a
result of a lack of access to clean drinking
water and poor sanitation. Many combinable
diseases and many of the poverty related
diseases spread as a result of inadequate
access to clean drinking water. According to
UNICEF 3,000 children die every
day, worldwide due to contaminated drinking
water and poor sanitation.

7. Effects Of Poverty
• Contaminated water and inadequate sanitation
are related to diseases of poverty such as
malaria, parasitic diseases, and schistosomiasis.
• These infections act as cofactors that increase
the risk of HIV transmission.
• One of the reasons that water-related diseases
are still occurring because water supplies can be
contacted by contaminated surface water.

8. Poor Nutrition due to Poverty
• Malnutrition disproportionately affect those in
sub-Saharan Africa. Over 35% of children under
the age of 5 in sub-Saharan Africa show physical
signs of malnutrition.
• Malnutrition, the immune system, and infectious
diseases operate in a cyclical manner: infectious
diseases have deleterious effects on nutritional
status, and nutritional deficiencies can lower the
strength of the immune system which affects the
body’s ability to resist infections.