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Poverty

Today:Guest SpeakersRed Cross and Coach ArtPoverty Globally

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Social Location - Advantage WalkThe purpose of this exercise is to provide participants with an opportunity to understand the intricacies of social location in American society.

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Social Location - Advantage WalkCommon themes in reflections

• Biggest advantages listed: parents, grandparents, public school, health, overall appreciation

• Obstacles: parents’ education, finances, alcoholism, parent that passed away, language barriers

• Some obstacles not mentioned in questions: emotional instability in home life, special learning needs, abuse

• Questions reflect SOME aspects of social location, outline some of the topics we will look at this semester

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Defining and Measuring Poverty

Poverty: lack of resources necessary for well-being:

FoodWaterHousingHealth care

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Defining and Measuring PovertyRelative poverty: deficiency in material resources compared with some other population.

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Defining and Measuring PovertyAbsolute poverty: Lack of resources that leads to hunger and physical deprivation Life threatening

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Source: Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 by TransparencyInternational.org

Poverty Globally

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Poverty Globally

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Problems of PovertyHunger

AIDS

Pneumonia

Tuberculosis

Malaria

Measles

Diarrhea

11 million children under the age of 5 die each year because of preventable diseases and malnutrition. –World Health Organization

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Work in groups of 5-6. Read the excerpt.Depending on your article, answer the following questions

Poverty’s Diseases1.What is it?2.How many people die yearly worldwide?3.Why is it deadly?4.How is poverty a factor?5.What solutions/ treatments are there?6.Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher

Diseases and Non-profit Organizations

Non-profit Organizations1.What is the mission of the organization?2.How does it work?3.Who does it help?4.Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization (why or why not)?5.Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher

15 minutes

Don’t write on

info sheet.

Save paper-clips

Write down

answers and

names

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computer screen door

Back of class

Team 1B Claudia L Osvaldo M Lizbeth G Gerardo L Britnee B Ashley

Team 2Flores Cynthia Nguyen Henry Mansour Eiriny Rodriguez Christian Akiba Chisato Kang Michelle

Team 3Molina Areli Alvarez Rosio Chu Alex Pilone Alyssa Padilla Josue Campbell Catherine

Team 4Holguin Madison Lucero Adriana Duran Marisol Liu Wen-Hao Marquez Wendy Garcia Viviana

Team 5Calaquian Meryl Cardenas Jose Cameron Jonathan Adams Shannon Escobar Vanessa Harden Jennifer

Team 6Martin Sebastian Sanchez Wendy Carrillo Jasmine Kwak Samuel Winders Molly

Team 7Khan Bisma Hirabayashi Marc Bedolla Ricky Perez Cynthia Zalenski Peter

Team 8Lam Thang Gonzalez Ana Barrera Sabrina Dheming Steve Hernandez Annie

Team 9Kim Daniel Martinez Angie Kim Sara Ventura Alejandro Peper Derek

Team 10Rangel Christopher Torres Mildred Ramirez Jessica Hernandez Joanna Cervantes Nancy

Team 11McOsker Caoimhe Cananea Jessa Alvarez Lauro Ballesteros Sofia VCervantes Yunuen

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Work in groups of 5-6. Read the excerpt.Depending on your article, answer the following questions

Poverty’s Diseases1.What is it?2.How many people die yearly worldwide?3.Why is it deadly?4.How is poverty a factor?5.What solutions/ treatments are there?6.Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher

Diseases and Non-profit Organizations

Non-profit Organizations1.What is the mission of the organization?2.How does it work?3.Who does it help?4.What can we do? 5.Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?6.Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher

15 minutes

Don’t write on

info sheet.

Save paper-clips

Write down

answers and

names

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For your notesDiseases: write down name of disease and solutions

Non-profits: write down name of organization and what they do

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Malaria

• What is it? • How many people die yearly

worldwide?• Why is it deadly?• How is poverty a factor?• What solutions/treatments are there?

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Measles

• What is it? • How many people die yearly

worldwide?• Why is it deadly?• How is poverty a factor?• What solutions/treatments are there?

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Tuberculosis

• What is it? • How many people die yearly

worldwide?• Why is it deadly?• How is poverty a factor?• What solutions/treatments are there?

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Diarrhea

• What is it? • How many people die yearly

worldwide?• Why is it deadly?• How is poverty a factor?• What solutions/treatments are there?

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Pneumonia

• What is it? • How many people die yearly

worldwide?• Why is it deadly?• How is poverty a factor?• What solutions/treatments are there?

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Feeding Americahttp://feedingamerica.org/

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Wine to Waterhttp://www.winetowater.org/

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Meals on Wheelshttp://www.mowaa.org/

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Kivahttp://www.kiva.org/

http://www.kiva.org/lend/342858 http://www.kiva.org/lend/340654

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Oxfamhttp://www.oxfam.org

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Mercy Corpshttp://www.mercycorps.org

1. What is the mission?2. How does it work?3. Who does it help?4. What can we do? 5. Would you recommend others to

donate time or money to this organization?

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Pass up group work with first and last names

Pass up info sheets re-attached with paperclips

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Solutions to Poverty

• Organizations mentioned are listed as Top 10 Poverty Fighting Non-Profits by TakePart.org

• Other ways to be a part of the solution: www.charitynavigator.org

• This website provides rating as well as CEO compensation

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View: The Way We Live. Ups and Downs of Global

Stratification

Answer questions on Video Note Taking Guide while watching

56 secs start-911-1316:30

1. How did Doctors Without Borders start?2. What is their charter? 3. What is brain drain?4. How is the role of women a factor?5. What do you think about the increase in care workers in the United States

from other countries?

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Provide assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened due to:•armed conflict•epidemics•malnutrition•natural disasters.

1999 Nobel Peace Prize

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Next Class

Read article on website: Hunger in the United States

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Malaria

• Over a million people die from malaria each year• Spread by mosquitoes• Anti-malarial drug often not available• Best cure is prevention, mosquito nets for beds• $6 donation can provide a net to save lives

UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO).

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Measles

• A million deaths per year• Do not usually die directly of measles, but

from its complications• Preventable through vaccines• Less than $1 per vaccination can save lives

UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO).

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Tuberculosis

• Kills well over 1.5 million people each year• Highly contagious – one person can infect 15 • Children can be vaccinated, adults cannot• Long antibiotic treatment needed

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Diarrhea

• Kills 1.6 million people each year, almost all of them children.

• Result of unclean water• Malnutrition causes death• Treatable with a mixture of water, salt, and

sugar that replenishes the lost fluids

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Pneumonia

• Kills more than 2 million children each year• Contagious• Not enough doctors or health care• Solution-train one person in each village to

recognize symptoms and dispense antibiotics