Basic data and information about urban poor and urban poor families.

2. Session Outline
 Video Presentation
 Reporting
 Discussion
 Sample Images
 Class Participation

3. An urban area is characterized by higher population
density and vast human features in comparison to
areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns
or conurbations, but the term is not commonly
extended to rural settlements such as villages
and hamlets. (Wikipedia)
What is Urban?
Urban areas are created and further developed by
the process of urbanization. Measuring the extent of
an urban area helps in analyzing population density
and urban sprawl, and in determining urban and
rural populations. (Wikipedia)

4. What is Poor?
 Being poor means experiencing a low quality of life,
deprived of both the material and non-material
requirements that allow an individual to live like a
human being. (Guide to Economics for Filipinos 4th
Edition)
 A poor person has a narrow range of policy choices. To
a large extent, he is not completely free to determine
his physical welfare, and most probably, he is also
deprived of other things that allow him and his family
to maintain their dignity as human beings. (Guide to
Economics for Filipinos 4th Edition)

5. A poor is deprived of:
Participation
Opportunities and Access to Basic
Services
Ownership of Assets
Resources to meet Basic Needs
Asian Development Bank

6. Who are poor?
1.Labor is the most important asset of the poor.
5.The poor often use their social capital or
assets to cope with shocks.
2.The head of the household has limited
schooling.
3.The poor live in marginalized areas.
4.The poor have limited access to sanitation,
water and electricity.
Asian Development Bank

7. Then, who are considered as
Urban Poor Families?
 From the word urban means city, they are the
families who are in poor condition, living in the
city, despite of the lot of opportunities they can
apply to.
 They families who lives at city’s central areas
which are in utterly wretched conditions.
 The families who are residing in an urban area
whose income falls below the official poverty
threshold.

8. Why there are Urban Poor
Families?
 The first reason why they are urban poor families are,
because of urbanization and or urban migration.
 Urbanization is the physical growth of urban areas
as a result of rural migration and even suburban
concentration into cities, particularly the very largest
ones. Urbanization is closely linked
to modernization, industrialization, and
the sociological process of rationalization.
(Wikipedia)
 Urbanization means, the quality of life being urbanized,
from the rural living. (Webster)

9.  Second one is poverty. Poverty is a deprivation
of essential assets and opportunities to which
every human is entitled. (Asian Development Bank)
 Unavailability of employment in rural villages has
resulted influx of mass in search of jobs in towns.
This situation is added by illiterates, semi-literates,
and educated class. Even the kind of education we
have is responsible as is mostly method of obtaining
urban employment. Urban areas have this
opportunity so, it becomes the loving place for all.

10. What are the common problems of
Urban Poor Families?
 The poor in the cities have remained jobless and
homeless. Government services such as safe water,
electricity, and health allocations hardly reach their
communities and as if adding insult to injury, their
shameless are ripped down and their only means to
survive is snatched from them.
 No descent homes. If worst, they don’t have
homes
 Insufficient social services
 No jobs
 Fast spreading diseases

11. Where do they commonly live?
Rail Road Sides
 Urban poor families commonly lives in marginalized
areas like:

12. Ilalim ng Tulay

13. Gilid ng Estero

14. Squatter’s Area

15. What are there common jobs?
 Urban poor families commonly sustain their daily
needs through these following jobs:
Side Walk Vendors

16. Scavengers

17. Drivers

18.  Roughly, 50% or more of the urban poor are skilled
workers such as drivers, plumbers, electricians,
painters, or carpenters. A bigger proportion
consisted of unskilled laborers engaged in such jobs
as pier hands, janitors, “peons” (infantryman),
factory casuals, and the like.
 These jobs do not pay well: slum dwellers are also
faced with a more pressing problem of security of
tenure. While employment opportunities is higher
paying jobs may exist, they usually cannot go into
these due to their low educational attainment and to
the lack of resources to even pursue the higher
education required. Thus, they appear to be caught
in a vicious cycle. (Guide to Economics for Filipinos
4th Edition)

19. What are there common diseases?
 The most common, and at the same time, the most
famous and deadliest disease that they can have is,
dengue.
 Dengue is transmitted by
several species of mosquito
within the genus Aedes

20. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
 Are illnesses that have a
significant probability of
transmission between humans
by means of human sexual
behavior, including vaginal
intercourse, oral sex, and anal
sex.

21. Diarrhea
 Diarrhea is the abnormally
frequent intestinal evacuations with
more or less fluid stools. (Websters)
 Diarrhea causes of intake of dirty
or contaminated water.

22. Food Poisoning

23. Do you consider your family belongs
to the Urban Poor Families???

24. What do you think???

25. References:
 Asian Development Bank
 Mish, Frederick C., Webster’s Ninth Collegiate
Dictionary. U.S.A Springfield Massachusetts: Miriam-
Webster Incorporated, 1985
 Villegas, Bernardo M., Guide to Economics for Filipinos
4th Edition. Manila: Sinag-Tala Publishers, Incorporated,
1991
 “Urabanization” Wikipedia.com
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty>
 Google_images.com

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