This document discusses poverty around the world. It provides statistics showing that billions of people live on less than $1.25 per day. Poverty has many negative effects such as widespread disease, hunger, illiteracy, homelessness, and violence. To address poverty, actions are being taken including international anti-poverty days, government welfare programs, and voluntary organizations. Individuals can join the fight against poverty by educating themselves, donating, volunteering, participating in campaigns, and writing petitions.

1. To wipe
poverty off
planet Earth
Boys’ Brigade Citizenship
stage 2

2. Content
 Poverty Around The World.
 Poverty Facts
 Poverty Effects
 Poverty Actions
 How individuals can join the fight
against Poverty
 Credits

3. Poverty Around the
World
Many people around the world
are deprive even the most basic
human needs, which includes
food, water, sanitation, clothing,
shelter, health care and
education. According to Chen
and Ravallion, about 1.76 billion
people in developing world lived
above $1.25 per day and 1.9
billion people lived below $1.25
per day in 1981. The world's
population increased over the
next 25 years. In 2005, about 4.09
billion people in developing
world lived above $1.25 per day
and 1.4 billion people lived below
$1.25 per day. On the left is a
picture of children that are going
through Poverty.

4. Through this venture, we are able to research on
poverty around the World. Organisations such as
Garmeen Bank, stepped forward and offered a
helping hand to make a diiference in the World
regarding poverty.

5. Poverty facts
 Almost half the world - about 3 million people - live on less than
USD$2.50 a day. The poorest 40 percent of the world's
population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The
richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.
 According to UNICEF (United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund), 22,000 children die each day due to
poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on
earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the
world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying
multitudes even more invisible in death.“
 Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on
weapons was needed to put every child into school by the
year 2000 and yet it didn't happen.According to the Unesco
(United Nationals Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation), it was reported that one in five adults is not
literate today and two-thirds of them are women.

6. Poverty effects
 Widespread diseases and hunger - One third of deaths, some 18
million people a year or 50,000 per day, are due to poverty-related
causes: in total 270 million people, most of them women and
children, have died as a result of poverty since 1990. According to
the World Health Organization, hunger and malnutrition are the
single gravest threats to the world's public health and malnutrition is
by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all
cases.
 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.
 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).

7. Poverty Actions
 Poverty Actions
 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.

8. How individuals can join the fight against
Poverty?
 1. Educate Yourself
A nationwide lack of affordable housing, sad state of public education,
lack of public transportation systems linking commercial and residential
neighborhoods, racial injustice, domestic violence, and policies
restricting contraception all contribute to an endless cycle of poverty
that pervades every state in this country. By reading and education
yourself, you can strengthen your understanding of anti-poverty aspects
of workers' rights, immigrants' rights, women's rights, reproductive justice,
environmental justice and economic human rights movements.
 2. Donate
You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys
and magazines.
 3. Volunteer
You can volunteer with kids, families, the elderly, the disabled, the
homeless, women, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens,
community centers, after school programs, and employment centers.
You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL,
computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.

9. How individuals can join the fight against
Poverty?
 4. Join a Campaign
There are a number of different local and national campaigns that you
can join to help combat poverty. Even better, you can ask your local
synagogue, church, youth group, community center, workplace, or
school to do the same. Locally, you can get involved with Focus and
Fight Poverty, Seattle International Human Rights Coalition, and Real
Change News. Nationally, you can get involved with Fighting Poverty
with Faith; CARE: Defending Dignity, Fighting Poverty; The ONE
Campaign; and End Poverty 2015.
 6. Write or Start a petition
Petitions are fantastic ways to create change in your local government
or neighborhood. You can choose to fight a bad policy, or create a
good one. You can write your own petition, or help to propagate one
already in existence.

10. Credits
Done by:
CPL Stevenson Koo
CPL Joe Ong
CPL Thaddeus Soh
CPL Nicholas Goh