It is all about UN SDGs and one of its Goals

1. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
SDG – 1
Poverty
END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE
Today, since the pandemic the SDG-1 talks mostly about how the
pandemic slowed down it’s progress in putting an end to Poverty. It
was not just the poverty; The exploitation was increasing multifold.
Source: https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/organizations-dedicated-to-fight-poverty/

2. The Organization for Poverty
Alleviation and Development
(OPAD) is an international NGO
that actively works on poverty
alleviation by promoting human
rights, sustainable development
and climate change. The vision of
the organization is to “improve the
standard of living of all people by
recognizing them as resources and
not as victims.

3. Poverty in India: from the village to the slum
More than 800 million people in India are considered poor. Most of them live in the countryside and keep
afloat with odd jobs. The lack of employment which provides a livable wage in rural areas is driving many
Indians into rapidly growing metropolitan areas such as Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore or Calcutta. There,
most of them expect a life of poverty and despair in the mega-slums, made up of millions of corrugated
ironworks, without sufficient drinking water supply, without garbage disposal and in many cases without
electricity. The poor hygiene conditions are the cause of diseases such as cholera, typhus and dysentery,
in which especially children suffer and die.
Poverty in India impacts children, families and individuals in a variety of different ways through:
•High infant mortality
•Malnutrition
•Child labor
•Lack of education
•Child marriage
•HIV / AIDS

4. Here are some facts and figures on poverty in India:
• Two-thirds of people in India live in poverty, with 68.8% of the Indian population living on less than $2 a day
• Over 30% of the Indian population has less than $1.25 per day available, making them extremely poor
• More than 800 million people in India are considered poor, with most of them living in the countryside and keeping afloat
with odd jobs
• In 2019, the Indian government stated that 6.7% of its population is below its official poverty limit
• In 2011, 21.9% of the Indian population lived below the national poverty line
• The poverty incidence in India was 27.5% in 2004-2005, implying that over one quarter of the population in India lives
below the poverty line
• India is estimated to have one-third of the world's poor
• According to Oxfam, India's top 1% of the population now holds 73% of the wealth, while 670 million citizens, comprising
the country's poorest half, saw their wealth rise by just 1%
• It is worth noting that different definitions and underlying small sample surveys used to determine poverty in India have
resulted in widely varying estimates of poverty from the 1950s to 2010s

5. https://www.hands
oncsr.com/employ
eeengagement
• With the ideas and visions of
OPED there is an organization, an
NGO, based out of Bengaluru
works on similar lines:
• Helping other organization with
their Corporate Social
responsibility, while also helping
the society in a very different way:

6. School Restoration
Development in all forms in BR HILLS region