Child PovertyBy: Jessica Grover

Presentation Overview

What is Poverty?Poverty

throughout HistoryCauses of PovertyTypes of PovertyWhere is it

happening?What we can do to

help

Application

Would you be able to survive?

Conclusion

Thesis

Children in the developing world spend most of their childhood struggling to survive, without much hope for a secure, productive life. Children are suffering all across the globe, even in places we could never imagine, such as only minutes away from our homes.

Personal Relevance

Passion for Kids

Helping others

P.I.P.

Your Relevance

Awareness

Support

Value your possessions

It?

What

is

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have. Such as:

Lack of Food and Water

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have. Such as:

Lack

of

Shelter

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have. Such as:

Lack of Education

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have. Such as:

Lack of Medicare

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have. Such as:

Lack of Security

Poverty doesn't know your age, or the colour of your skin, hedoesn't even care about the poor state that you're in. He doesn't want to know, if you're hungry, or you're cold, he justkeeps calm and quiet, while head bent you hold. Many who have met him are still with him today, not throughtheir own choices, but by him not giving way. Desperately needing clothes or shoes, so into purse you peer, you'llhave to wait another week, or visit charities you fear. He knows you've little money, and this he never defends, he knowsyou'll have to borrow, from loan sharks, or from friends He doesn't even blink an eye, when you're worse off than before, heswears, that it's your own fault, you must have known the score.

Qualifications

A four-person family earning less than $22,050 a year sets the poverty standard 14 million children (newborn to 18)

U.S. Poverty level is $10,400/year

200,000 U.S. youth are homeless

Welfare

Miscellaneous Facts

48% of poverty victims are children.

15 million children (1/4th) live below poverty line.

2,660 children born into poverty

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100 billion pounds of food is wasted in America each year.

Poverty Throughout History

The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl

Hierarchy of Needs

Causes of Poverty

Natural Disasters Drought

Crop Failure

Earthquakes

Haiti

Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina

“It took my bike, it took my house. It took my clothes, my games. It took everything”

Accidental Causes Disease

AIDS

HIV

Maleria

Tuberculosis

Accidental Causes Cont.

Birth defects

Brain damage

Handicaps

Missing limbs

Economic Causes Loss of Job

not enough income

High standards/cost of living

prices

Overpopulation

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Socia

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ses

Social causes Dishonesty

Racism

Sexism

Ethnic division

War

Types of poverty

Relative poverty

Absolute poverty

Hunger

High levels of infant mortality Closly linked to mothers diet

Iron-deficiency anemia Developmental and behavioral disturbances

Emotional impact Fatigue Headaches

Hunger Continued

Stunted growth Aching joints No social skills

Hinders learning process

Concentration lowered Negatively affects

ability to learn

134 million

60%

40%

Homeless

Effects all ages. Before birth

Homeless mothers usually means unhealthy pregnancies.

Infants Low birth rates Greater risk of death Endangered health. Lack immunizations

Toddlers Developmental delays

Infectious disease

Asthma

Lead poisoning

Low graduation rates

100,00 youth

Homeless continued

45,000 45,00

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Effects of poverty

Adequate diet

Substandard housing

Stunted growth

Poor hygiene

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Where is Poverty Happening?

Africa Congo Zimbabwe Liberia Guinea

Asia India

Poorest country in the world Cambodia

Europe Poland

Middle East Turkey Tajikistan Afganistan

United States

Poverty in the United States?

35 million poor people

two-tenths

Arkansas

Georgia

North Carolina

Poverty in the United States cont.

Spending money on other countries

8.6 % New Hampshire

31.2 % Arkansas

Locally

http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Philadelphia-Pennsylvania.html

Poverty in Philadelphia

33% without a high school diploma live in poverty

56% of school students qualify for free lunch

80% drop out of high school between 8th and 9th grade.

In our own backyard?!?

http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Norristown-Pennsylvania.html

Poverty in Montgomery County

778,048

23.1%

6.1%

3.1%

Future of America

“as far as I’m concerned, we should be calling for a state of emergency on this issue”

-Miss Katene

Organizations

FWOP (future without poverty) www.futurewithoutpoverty.org

UNICEF www.unicef.org

Feed the Children www.feedthechildren.org/site/PageServer?pagename=org_us_p

rograms

World Vision www.worldvision.org

What We Can Do to Help

Fundraise

Canned Food Drive

Book Drive

Sponser a Child

Application

Application

Can you survive?

Split into groups

Make a grocery list for a week

“Six million children die every year as a result to hunger”

Conclusion

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit” –Eli Khamarov

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