2. Especially in third world countries like Africa.
Half the world is facing poverty right now- About 3 million
people.
Poverty is all around the
world
3. • ◦According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due
to poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest
villages on earth
• ◦Less than one per cent of what the world spent every
year on weapons was needed to put every child into
school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen
Poverty Facts
4. • ◦Widespread diseases and hunger about 50,000 people die
per day due to poverty most of them are children and
women since 1990.
• Water and food-related diseases, simply because the poor
can't always afford "safe" foods.
Poverty Effects
5. • By International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
• By Government Schemes - Conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs
conditional upon the receivers' actions.
• By Voluntary Welfare Organisations - Examples include the
Center for Global Development (CGD), Child Poverty Action
Group, End Poverty Now (EPN), and the United Nations
Development Program Millennium Development Goals
(MDG), Poverty Assessment and Monitoring.
• By Individuals - Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank, a
microfinance organization and community development bank
started in Bangladesh.
Actions taken
