Poverty leads to numerous health, education, and social issues according to the document. It discusses how poverty results in one third of global deaths each year from preventable causes like malnutrition and infectious diseases. Those in poverty spend a large portion of income on food and lack basic access to education, clean water, and housing. Violence is also more prevalent as living conditions deteriorate and people engage in risky behaviors out of economic desperation. The document calls on everyone to help address poverty through donations, advocacy, and volunteering with organizations working to improve conditions.

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.