Let's eradicate poverty!

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Poverty
Group Members: Spencer Loh, Joseph Chan, Timothy Ang, Bryan Lam

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What is Poverty?● Poverty is scarcity
● Lacking in possessions or
money
o Poverty is chronic
o Correlated to
inequality
● Deprivation of basic
human needs - food,
water, sanitation,
clothing, shelter and
health care.

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How does it happen?
● Vicious Cycle of poverty
● Unable to obtain education.
● Lack qualification for jobs
● Trapped and bound to
poverty.
● People are often powerless.
● Inferior and cannot make a
change
● Events are multiplied and hits
others

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Who does it affect?
It affects many people in the world, especially in developing
countries
Poverty causes
– Crime
– Alcohol & Substance Abuse
– Disease
– Children’s Lives to be Affected
– Environmental Issues
– Shorter Life Expectancy
and many more...

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How is it being solved?
✓ Social entrepreneurship
o Work for minimal/no profit
o Goals of company are social good
Example - Muhammed Yunus’ Grameen Bank
o Problem - interest rates too high for poor people
o Lends to poor people for little interest rates
o Allows poor people to start sustainable businesses to pull themselves
out of the poverty cycle

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How can you make a difference?
Poverty exists even in Singapore!
1. You can donate money to the poor through
charities
2. Understand the plight of the poor and not
abuse them
3. Visit them in their homes and help them out (for

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References
1. http://www.poverties.org/effects-of-poverty.html
2. http://www.muslimawards.org/img/nominee_photos/a4f89981e30a6
cc0a672f14ddc23d02e.jpg
3. http://www.grameen-info.org/grameen-founder-muhammad-yunus/
4. http://www2.crcna.org/pages/sea_cycleofpoverty.cfm