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• Africa, the poorest continent

• Zambia, the poorest country

• Possible solutions

Africa• More than 300 million people live on less than $1

per day.

• 30 million five-year-old minor children suffer

malnutrition

• 43 % of the population doesn’t have drinking-water

• 70 % of the cases of AIDS takes place in Africa,

with more than 2,2 million deaths a year.

• The life expectancy is 46 years

Zambia• It’s the poorest country in the world :

80% of the population lives in the poverty

• 15 % of the adults are infected by the

AIDS

• In 2003 life expectancy was 35 years old:

there were 120000 deaths because of this

virus.

• In 2011 life expectancy was 52: the

number of deaths got down to 45000

Poverty in Zambia

Possible solutions•  Richer governments and charities actually

choose which poor countries to help, usually giving

no help to those poor countries whose

governments are considered 'unfriendly', and

they also choose how to help

• Improving supplies of clean water.

• Improving the supply of accessible, affordable

health care information and services, to

reduce the vulnerability to disease of children

and the elderly especially.

• Improving the training and equipment of

farmers in poor countries related to agriculture

and natural resource management, to help

increase crop yields and conserve the environment

• Improving the quality of education for poor

children.

• Improving opportunities and incentives for

poor.

• Improving work opportunities and incentives

for the poor and the families.