3. POVERTY
What does poverty means ?
Poverty is the lack of basic necessities
that all human beings must have:
food and water, shelter, education,
medical care, security, etc.
Relative poverty: needs to live, such as food,
sanitation, and health care are met, but just barely.
Moderate poverty: live on 1 to 2 dollars per day
Extreme poverty: less than 1 dollar per day
5. CAUSES
1. Natural disasters
People lose their homes and their jobs
2. war and civil unrest
Destroys farms and businesses
Almost 30,000 children under the age of five die
every day from malnutrition and preventable diseases.
That’s one kindergarten class every minute.
6. SOLUTION
If it doesn’t affect you and me, why should we care ?
Of the total 6 billion people in the world 3 billion
are living in poverty.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
Donate food that wont spoil to food banks.
Donate things you don’t use to charity
7. WHAT DOES A DOLLAR MEAN TO YOU
?
YOU
A pen
A piece of candy
A small drink
A pack of gum
A pad of paper
Probably something you will
use for a day, and throw away
the next.
POOR
Another day to live
8. THE POVERTY CYCLE
People in
poverty
have
children
The parents
don’t have
money to
provide a
good life for
their child
The child
also lives in
poverty
The
children
grow up
and cannot
support
their
families.
9. QUOTES
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty
are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
demographic. (n.d.). Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
Shah, A. (n.d.). Causes of Poverty — Global Issues. Global
Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that
affect us all — Global Issues. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-povert
