2. What is Poverty?
Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and
clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their
basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a
lack of money, or more broadly in terms of barriers to
everyday life.
Definitions:
United Nations: Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of
choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity.
It means lack of basic capacity to participate
effectively in society. It means not having enough to
food and clothing 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.
3. How does Poverty affect us? Education: Research has found
that there is a high risk of
Health: One third of deaths – some
educational underachievement
18 million people a year or 50,000
for children who are from low-
per day – are due to poverty-related
income housing circumstances.
causes: in total 270 million people,
This often is a process that
most of them women and children,
begins in primary school for
have died as a result of poverty
some less fortunate children.
since 1990.
Instruction in the US educational
system, as well as in most other
Hunger: Rises in costs of living countries, tends to be geared
making poor people less able to towards those students who
afford items. As a result, poor come from more advantaged
households and those near the backgrounds. As a result, these
poverty threshold can be children are at a higher risk than
particularly vulnerable to other children for retention in
increases in food prices. For their grade, special placements
example, in late 2007 increases in during the school's hours and
the price of grains led to food even not completing their high
riots in some countries. school education.
4. What is being done for those
in need?
Increasing the supply of basic needs
Removing constraints on government services
Reversing brain drains
Controlling overpopulation
Increasing personal income
Economic freedoms
Providing more Financial services
5. Which are the groups helping?
Center for Global Development (CGD),
Child Poverty Action Group, End Poverty
Now (EPN)
United Nations Development Program
Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
Poverty Assessment and Monitoring.
6. Remarks:
We have learnt a lot about the
effects of Poverty through the
duration of doing this project. We
also think that we have not only
raised the awareness of others but
ourselves too and bonded
together more.
Team Members: Joshua Goh, Maverick Wong, Ong Wei Sheng,
Royston Tan
Our Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
http://www.poverty.com/
http://www.thp.org/home?gclid=CK2-tt2h_rMCFQx76wodmCMA0Q
