Here we learn what is poverty and what can be done to help those in poverty

1. DISCUSSION
TOPIC:POVERTY
Members:Terrian(Lead-er)
Darren
Hao Jen
Aden
Jing Hao

2. WHAT IS POVERTY???(TERRIAN)
•Bascically Poverty is describing a state of poor
people , who has a low income to afford any
sanitation , clean water and other basic needs
like medicines and food.
•We can call these people “ the ones who live
below the poverty line”
•They normally live with less then 2.00USD a
day. 

3. THE FOUNDER: MUHAMMAD
YUNUS
•The founder is Muhammad Yunus . He is borned on 28 June, 1940 in
the village of Bathua, in Hathazari, Chittagong, the business centre of
what was then Eastern Bengal. He was the third of 14 children, of
whom five died in infancy. his biggest influence was his mother,
Sufia Khatun, who always helped any poor person or relative who
knocked on their door. This inspired him to commit himself to
eradication of poverty. His early childhood years were spent in the
village. In 1947, his family moved to the city of Chittagong, where his
father started a jewelery business.

4. HISTORY OF THE VENTURE
(ADEN
In 1974, Professor Muhammad Yunus , led his students on a field trip
to a poor village. They interviewed a woman who made bamboo
stools, and learnt that she had to borrow the equivalent of 15p to buy
raw bamboo for each stool made. After repaying the middleman,
sometimes at rates as high as 10% a week, she was left with a penny
profit margin. Had she been able to borrow at more advantageous
rates, she would have been able to amass an economic cushion and
raise herself above subsistence level.
After realizing that there’s something wrong with the economic he
was teaching , using he’s own money , lent 17 to 42 basket-weavers .
He found out that it was possible to help the basket weavers to not
just survive, it can also spark up their hope to work hard and pull
themselves out of poverty.

5. THE IMPACTS OF THEIR ACTIONS.
Against the advice of banks and government, Yunus carried on giving
out ‘micro-loans’, and in 1983 formed the Grameen Bank , founded
on principles of trust and solidarity. In Bangladesh by 2015, Grameen
has 2,568 branches, with 21,751 staff serving 8.81 million borrowers
in 81,392 villages. On any working day Grameen collects an average
of $1.5 million in weekly installments. Of the borrowers, 97% are
women and over 97% of the loans are paid back, a recovery rate
higher than any other banking system. Grameen methods are applied
in projects in 58 countries, including the US, Canada, France, The
Netherlands , Norway , etc.

6. BUT…..HERE ARE SOME IMPACTS
CAUSED BY POVERTY..
(DARREN,HAO JEN)(PLZ SPLIT.)
1.Poverty causes one third of the worlds’ death 18 mil. People or
50,000 people a day dies from poverty related cases.In total , 270
million people , most of them are women died as a result of poverty
since 1990.According to the World Health Organisation(WHO) ,
hunger and malnutrition are the gravest threats to the worlds’ public
health and malnutrition is by far the greatest contributor to child
mortality , present in half of all cases.
In the US educational system, these children are at a higher risk than
other children for retention in their grade, special placements during
the school’s hour and not even completing their high school’s
education.

7. MORE EFFECTS CAUSED BY
POVERTY.
2. Illiteracy - In the US educational system, these children are at a
higher risk than other children for retention in their grade, special
placements during the school's hours and even not completing their
high school education.
3. Homelessness - 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, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing
world, according to a report by the United Nations
Violence - 51% of fifth graders from New Orleans (median income for
a household: $27,133) have been found to be victims of violence,
compared to 32% in Washington, DC (mean income for a household:
$40,127).
Thus, you can see poverty is a serious problem.

8. ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST
POVERTY.(JINGHAO)
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - This call was made
by Joseph Wresinski, founder of the International Movement ATD
Fourth World, and was officially recognised by the United Nations in
1992.
Government Schemes - Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim
to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the
receivers' actions. The government only transfers the money to
persons who meet certain criteria.
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.
Mentioned earlier, The Grameen bank is also a group that helps out
people who lives under the line of poverty.

9. LINKS AND URL OF WHERE WE
TOOK THE SOURCES FROM.
http://www.wri.org/resources/charts-graphs/rural-share-poverty-
1993-and-2002
Graph ^^^^^
http://bb.valuesventure.com/LearnResources.aspx
Poverty Effect ^^^^^^^^
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/poverty.html
Definination of poverty^^^^^

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND
ATTENTION AND TIME
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Powerpoint: some random.
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