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.
