Poverty leads to many health, education, and social issues according to this document. It discusses how poverty causes one third of all deaths due to lack of access to healthcare and malnutrition. Poor communities also struggle with hunger, lack of access to education, poor housing conditions, and increased violence. The document suggests helping poverty by donating to charities, spreading awareness through media, and volunteering with organizations.

1. POVERTY
Done by: SGT Lester Ye Ge
CPL Sean Lee
CPL Toh Chin Howe
LCP Jorim Jireh

2. INTRODUCTION TO POVERTY
• Definition: Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain
amount of material possessions or money.
• In developing countries, it is known as destitution.
• Destitution: the deprivation of basic human needs, which
commonly includes food, water, sanitation, clothing,
shelter, health care and education
• 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in
developing countries where poverty occurs.

3. PROBLEMS FACED BY THE POOR
• Health issues
• Hunger issues
• Education issues
• Housing and utilities issues
• Violence issues

4. HEALTH
• One third of deaths – some 18 million people a year or
50,000 per day – are due to poverty-related causes.
• According to the World Health Organization, hunger and
malnutrition are the single gravest threats to the world's
public health.
• Malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality.
• Infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis can
perpetuate poverty by diverting health and economic
resources from investment and productivity.

5. HUNGER
• Poor people spend a greater portion of their budgets on food
than richer people.
• Threats to the supply of food may also be caused by drought
and the water crisis.
• In Africa, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the
continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by
2025, according to United Nations.
• Every year nearly 11 million children living in poverty die
before their fifth birthday

6. EDUCATION
• Schools lack basic facilities such as whiteboard or even
stationaries.
• Research shows that Instructions in some educational
system are geared more towards students with more
advantaged background.
• Schools in poverty-stricken areas have conditions that
hinder children from learning in a safe environment such
as urban war zone.

7. HOUSING AND UTILITIES
• Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's urban
population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural
people
• There are over 100 million street children worldwide.
• Because of poor targeting of utility water subsidies, only 30%,
on average, of the supplying costs in developing countries is
covered.
• Lack of incentive to expand delivery means the poor have to
pay about five to 16 times the metered price.

8. VIOLENCE
• According to experts, many women become victims of
trafficking, the most common form of which is
prostitution, as a means of survival and economic
desperation.
• Deterioration of living conditions can often compel
children to abandon school in order to contribute to the
family income.

9. HOW CAN WE HELP?
• Everyone should put in an effort and make donations to charity or organisations.
• We can spread the message to everyone through different aspects of mass media.
• Join one of the organisations and understand poverty more through it.

10. HOW CAN WE HELP?
• Everyone should put in an effort and make donations to charity or organisations.
• We can spread the message to everyone through different aspects of mass media.
• Join one of the organisations and understand poverty more through it.