This venture was started to create awareness about the growing poverty in our world which is partially due to globalization and the wealth cycle. We hope to help others by spreading awareness such that even if we may not be able to contribute directly to those who are impoverished, we can catch the attention of those who can.

1. Poverty
The Growing
Wealth Divide

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?
Health: One third of deaths – some 18
million people a year or 50,000 per day
– are due to poverty-related causes: in
total 270 million people, most of them
women and children, have died as a
result of poverty since 1990.
Hunger: Rises in costs of living
making poor people less able to
afford items. As a result, poor
households and those near the
poverty threshold can be particularly
vulnerable to increases in food
prices. For example, in late 2007
increases in the price of grains led to
food riots in some countries.
Education: Research has found that
there is a high risk of educational
underachievement for children who
are from low-income housing
circumstances. This often is a
process that begins in primary
school for some less fortunate
children. Instruction in the US
educational system, as well as in
most other countries, tends to be
geared towards those students who
come from more advantaged
backgrounds. As a result, these
children are at a higher risk than
other children for retention in their
grade, special placements during
the school's hours and even not
completing their high school
education.

4. What is being done for those in
need?
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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