Poverty is defined as not having enough resources to meet basic needs like food, shelter, and clothing. The World Bank describes poverty as hunger, lack of shelter, inability to access healthcare or education. Poverty has many causes including lack of jobs or livelihoods, inequality, poor education, climate change, and lack of infrastructure like roads or utilities. Effects of poverty include increased risk of disease, crime, lack of education, and unemployment. Poverty alleviation must start with individual and community action.

2. What is POVERTY?
It is about not having
enough money to meet
basic needs including
food, clothing, shelter.
It is simply the state of
being poor.

3. The World Bank Organization describes poverty in
this way:
“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter.
Poverty is being sick and not being able to see
a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school
and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not
having a job, is fear for the future, living one
day at a time .”

4. “Poverty has many faces, changing from place to
place and across time, and has been described in
many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation
people want to escape. So poverty is a call to
action—for the poor and the wealthy alike—a
call to change the world so that many more may
have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to
education and health, protection from violence,
and a voice in what happens in their
communities .

5. Causes of Poverty
 Little or no access to livelihoods or jobs
 Inequality
 Poor Education
 CLIMATE CHANGE
 Lack of Infrastructure

6. Little or no access to livelihoods or jobs
Withoutajoborawaytomakemoney,peoplewill
facepoverty.Particularlyindevelopingandruralparts
oftheworld,dwindlingaccesstoproductive landand
overexploitationofresourceslikefishormineralsis
puttingincreasingpressureonmanytraditional
livelihoods.

7. Inequality
Therearemanydifferenttypesofinequalitiesin
theworld,fromeconomictosocialinequalitieslike
gender,castesystems,ortribalaffiliations.Butno
mattertheinequality,itgenerallymeansthesame
thing:unequalornoaccesstotheresources
neededtokeeporliftafamilyoutofpoverty.

8. Poor Education
Manyfamiliescan’taffordtosendtheirchildrentoschooland
needthemtowork.Educationisoftenreferredtoasthegreat
equalizer,andthat’sbecauseeducationcanopenthedoorto
jobsandotherresourcesandskillsthatafamilyneedstonotjust
survive,butthrive.UNESCOestimatesthat171millionpeople
couldbeliftedoutofextremepovertyiftheyleftschoolwith
basicreadingskills

9. CLIMATE CHANGE
The impacts of climate change affect
every country on every continent. The
increased frequency and intensity of
extreme weather events like hurricanes,
wildfires and droughts threaten the
world's food supply, drive people from
their homes, separate families and
jeopardize livelihoods. And all of these
effects increase the risk of conflict,
hunger and poverty.

10. Lack of Infrastructure
 Alackofinfrastructure–fromroads,bridges,andwellsto
cablesforlight,cellphones,andinternet–canisolate
communitiesliving inruralareas.Living “offthegrind”means
theinabilitytogotoschool,work,ormarkettobuyandsell
goods.Travellingfartherdistancestoaccessbasicservicesnot
onlytakestime,itcostmoney,keepingfamiliesinpoverty.

11. Effects of Poverty
Poor Health
Globally, millions suffer from poverty-
related health condition as infectious diseases
ravage the lives of an estimated 14 million
people a year and are top effects of poverty.
These diseases are contracted through sources
like contaminated water, the absence of water
and sanitation, lack of access to proper
healthcare.

12. Common Diseases linked to Poverty:
1. Malaria – is referred to as the poor man’s
disease caused by a parasite. It is contracted
through mosquito bites.
2. Tuberculosis – is a bacteria- born disease. The
bacterium, mycobacterium tuberculosis,
targets the lungs.
3. HIV/AIDS – this infection attacks the immune
system and is contacted by contact with certain
fluids in the body. This is left untreated.

13.  Crime
There’s an old adage that says, ”
If a man don’t work, he don’t eat.”
That’s not the case for a large number
people living in poverty. Lack of
economic opportunity leads to
impoverishment which then leads to
crime.

14. Global unemployment is
at a high point. One hundred ninety-
two million people around the world
are jobless. In some parts of the
world, mainly poor parts,
unemloyment standings will drive
this number higher.

15. Lack of Education – there is the direct
correlation between low academic
performance and poverty. Children who
are exposed to extreme levels of poverty
have difficulty with cognitive
development, speech, and managing
stress, which leads to adverse
behaviour. Where there is poverty, there
is lack of education, joblessness, and
poor health.

16. Poverty starts in our
society so therefore as the
hope of this nation the
change and solution must
start in you. Put you words
into action, because action
speaks louder than words.
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