This document is a presentation from Barh Koh Environment and Sustainable Development Aid, an international nonprofit organization. It summarizes the difficult living conditions faced by millions living in poverty, including lack of access to education, clean water, sanitation, and modern energy sources. It calls on people to help relieve poverty through donations, volunteering, sponsoring students, and supporting humanitarian programs that can improve agriculture, the environment, rural education, health, and local economies.

2. A Presentation of Barh Koh Environment and Sustainable Development Aid An international non profit charitable organization

3. Share this document with all your contacts … and help increase awareness of poverty facts Titki D. Tarassoum Barh Koh E.S.D.A

7. For these students, school is a wide open space But this does not affect their determination

8. Lack of school material does not keep them from learning But the youth needs our help to learn better …

9. Rural women live under harsh conditions Day After Day They are subject to physical labor

11. More than one third of the world population has no access to clean drinking water Open water holes are susceptible to many sources of contamination

12. Their source of energy is either wood or charcoal Banning the use of firewood protects the environment …. But what can we do for those families who have no access to modern energy sources such as gas or electricity?

13. If we don’t do anything to help the villages We will risk more humanitarian and ecological crises that would further weaken the developing countries – as well as the balance of the global economy

16. To Make A Donation Visit our web site: http://www.barhkoh.org to make a secure online donation. You can also send your donations to the following address: Barh Koh E.S.D.A 3950 Lawrence Ave. East, Unit# 1205 Toronto, Ontario M1G 1R8 (Canada) Tel: (416) 282-2301 We are capable of relieving poverty