How poverty affects child development around the world.

1. Courtney Braman| HON401-Honors Component| Fall 2016

2. • Component Summary
• Thesis
• Inspiration for Component
• The World of Poverty
• Child Development and Poverty
• Exploring Poverty Around The World
• USA Poverty
• History of Poverty
• Steps To Making A Change
• What’s Next?
• Conclusion

3. • In this component I will show students the importance of
understanding the effects that poverty has on child development.
• Our children’s health will have a direct affect on future generations
around the world and we need to be more informed about our
surroundings as a community.
• By sharing statistics, history, and findings I hope to inform students
to help them take the step to support poverty and want to make a
change in the world.
• It is important that this component connects different parts of the
world, while also analyzing what many of us overlook; The United
States of America is suffering from poverty.

4. • This component is proof that by informing students about the
effects that poverty has on child development, we can come
together as a community to become more informed and make a
change.

5. “CARE cuts poverty off at its roots. We provide tools for sustainable change to the people most vulnerable to
hunger, violence and disease.”
“CARE works in 90 countries around the world to support over 880 poverty-fighting development and emergency
projects.”

6. • 7 billion people on earth
• 2.2 billion children
• 1.1 billion live in poverty
• 1 out of every 2 children live in poverty today
• In developing countries 50% of women lack
proper maternal care and there are 300,000
deaths annually from childbirth.
• Each day, 22,000 children die to conditions of
poverty.
• 1 of 6 infants are born at low birth weight in
developing countries.

7. • Asia at 525.6 million
• Sub-Saharan Africa at 214 million
• Latin America and the Caribbean at 37 million

8. • In the 1980’s we had a total of 200 food banks, now we have nearly
40,000.
• In 2014, 15% (47 mil.) of our population in the United States were living in
poverty.
• That is a 2.3 % increase from 2007, which was a year prior to the 2008 recession
• In 2015, the weighted average poverty threshold, also known as the
poverty line, for a family of three was $18,871 per a year.
• 15% of US population is considered “poor.”
• 16.1 million (22%) of American children lived in poverty in 2013.
• 3 million more than during 2008 recession.

9. • Ashamed of acknowledging/Government denial
• Too many expectations
• Food Desserts still exist (Max. deliver, Min. cost)
• No room for delivering to small towns
• Without transportation- No access to healthy foods
• With transportation- Gas costs & overall cost to get to a grocery store
• End Hunger Network
• Film made in 1983, still resembles hunger and poverty today. Today is actually
worse.
• School lunch costs
• Have $2.68 per student for lunch before labor costs
• After labor cost, less than $1 left per student for lunch
• Hasn’t changed since 1973

10. • Farm Policy
• Started in 1930’s with the Great Depression
• Hit farmers first, so government assisted by
increasing the price of crops and then “letting the
market take over”
• Never let the market take over
• Business farms profit, not family farms
• 1980: Obesity Epidemic Began

11. • Japan
• Haiti
• India
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Chad
• Brazil
• Peru

12. • Poverty in Japan is hidden due to leading to
public shame and discrimination.
• More than 1.23 million single mother households.
• Single mothers make on average 150,000 yen per
a month($1,490).
• Mothers get limited support from welfare programs in
place.
• Japan is one of the world's richest countries.
• 1of 6 children are currently living in poverty.
• Country’s child poverty rate is 16.3%.

13. • Study of how homelessness correlated to
suicide.
• Face-to-face survey method, 423 subjects
• Both street and sheltered homeless
• Results:
• Wish to die, 51 subjects (12.2 % of valid
responses)
• Frequent thought of suicide, 29 (6.9 %)
• Made plans, 22 (5.3 %) In addition
• Attempted in past 2 weeks, 11 (2.9%)
• Ever attempted, 74 (17.7 %)
• These are people’s CHILDREN.

14. • 50% of children don’t attend school.
• Under five mortality rate is 88 lives out
of 1,000 births.
• Out of every 1,000 birthday, 59 will die
before their 1st birthday.

15. • Mumbai is capital city in Maharashtra, India.
• 22 million people live in Mumbai, over 70% of
them reside in slums.
• About 98,000 people die each year from
diarrhea.
• Highest rate of child marriage in the world.
• One of every three girls become child brides.
• Many girls marry at an early age, which then
become servants or prostitutes in order to
survive.

16. • Africa’s second largest country.
• Less than 20% of African women have
access to education.
• African women with no little to no education
are twice as likely to contract AIDS and 50%
less likely to immunize their children.
• Children with a minimum of five years of
education have a 40% higher chance of
survival.

17. • One of the poorest countries in the
world.
• Challenges are poor access to medical
service, epidemics, conflict and refugee
crisis from neighboring countries.
• More than 500,000 refugees.
• Every 1 of 6 children die before age 5
due to malnutrition and preventable
diseases.

18. • Largest country in South America with
population of 201,009,622.
• 21.4% of population below poverty line.
• 10 million people live below international
poverty line
• 50% are children

19. • Nearly 40% of children and adolescents
live in poverty.
• Many child drop out of school to
support family.
• 33% of children age 6-14 have jobs; many in
dangerous mining and construction.
• More than 18% of children under 5 are
chronically malnourished
• Over 37% of children under 5 have
anemia.

20. • Within the first 3 years of life; 80-85 % of child's brain is developed.
• Synapses, which are connections between neurons and the brain are
forming more rapidly than this will for rest of life.
• Synapses are essential for the ability to learn.
• Highest ability to mold brain in first 3 years of life.
• The number of words a child knows a 3, will directly correlate to how well
they do in 3rd grade.
• Poverty creates stress for children, stress in children affects chemistry of their
brain, which leads to decreased growth.
• Parents work so much that children don’t see them. Children need
attachments to parental figures.
• Children need to learn to express themselves and need structure.

21. • Fight for change in the government and an increased funding for
people in need of assistance.
• Currently, legislatures only care about corporate health to make
profits, not public health. Legislative needs to change.

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