15. 1.1 Billion.
Do not have access to clean water.
2.6 lack basic sanitation
Billion.
Totally .
*barefootagainstpoverty.org
16. According to UNESCO, in
2010 approximately 73
million school-age children
were not getting a formal
education of any kind
*United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
17. % of children not in school*
53% are girls
47% are boys
boys
girls 47%
53%
*Global Campaign for Education
18. 73 million may not be able to read this sentence
*Global Campaign for Education
19. Not even America
Land of the free
Home of the brave
Has alluded this societal
and economical "illness"
20. Not even America
Land of the free
Home of the brave
Has alluded this societal
and economical "illness"
30. What is perspective?
A particular attitude or way of
regarding something; a point
of view; true understanding of
the relative importance of
things; a sense of proportion
31. What is perspective?
Perhaps comparing a broken heel on your
favorite pair of shoes to wearing temporary
shoes fashioned out of flattened water bottles?
36. "If your family income is $10,000 a year, you are
wealthier than 84 percent of the world. If it's $50,000
or more a year, you make more than 99 percent of the
world. That's one of the more oft-cited stats. The
World Bank, Poke's Global Rich List and various
economists have a bunch of perspective-gathering
statistics to chew on if you have some time to go
online and find out just how rich you are. They can
also back up their numbers."
- Elizabeth Hovde, Oregon Live, August 2012
http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2012/08/income_in_perspective_americas.html
37. "If your family income is $10,000 a year, you are
wealthier than 84 percent of the world. If it's $50,000
or more a year, you make more than 99 percent of the
world. That's one of the more oft-cited stats. The
World Bank, Poke's Global Rich List and various
economists have a bunch of perspective-gathering
statistics to chew on if you have some time to go
online and find out just how rich you are. They can
also back up their numbers."
- Elizabeth Hovde, Oregon Live, August 2012
http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2012/08/income_in_perspective_americas.html
38. Look at those last sets of numbers one more time. . .
39. Look at those last sets of numbers one more time. . .
2010 American poverty threshold: $22,314
*$10,000 = making more than 84% of the world
2010 American low-income threshold: $44,405
*$50,000 = making more than 99% of the world
40. Look at those last sets of numbers one more time. . .
2010 American poverty threshold: $22,314
*$10,000 = making more than 84% of the world
2010 American low-income threshold: $44,405
*$50,000 = making more than 99% of the world
So are Americans still suffering?
41. Look at those last sets of numbers one more time. . .
2010 American poverty threshold: $22,314
*$10,000 = making more than 84% of the world
2010 American low-income threshold: $44,405
*$50,000 = making more than 99% of the world
Do Americans have perspective?
44. As "rich" as we may be compared to the rest of the world
we seem to lack the same solutions for aiding our needy
and preventing any further spiral into relative poverty
50. "The world is very different now. For man holds in
his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of
human poverty, and all forms of human life."
-- John F Kennedy