What is Poverty?
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. The word poor refers to not having enough money to support yourself and/or family with the basic supplies of life such as: food, water, and shelter.
Affects
Here is a documentary of a family living is poverty.
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. The word poor refers to not having enough money to support yourself and/or family with the basic supplies of life such as: food, water, and shelter.
- Statistics show that 80% of the WORLDS population lives on $10 a day. 2010 study shows that 22% lives on $1.25 a day.
- 25,000 billion die everyday due to extreme poverty. 22,000 billion are children
Affects
- Poverty affects everyone in its surroundings. Family, Friends and Citizens.
- 1.1 billion people in developing countries don’t have adequate access to water. 400 million of them are children, meaning that one-fifth of children worldwide cannot access safe water.
- One of the biggest issues linked to poverty is world hunger.
- About 870 million people in developing countries are considered undernourished , and more than 100 million children under age 5 are undernourished and underweight.
- Children who are poorly nourished are ill for up to 160 days a year. Of 10.9 million child deaths a year, malnutrition plays a role in more than half. Hunger—and by extension, poverty—kills over 5 million children a year.
- 250,000 to 500,000 children every year, half of them dying within a year of losing their sight.
- Stunted development of children due to under-nutrition. 1 in 4 children around the world show signs of stunted growth.
- Hunger also inhibits proper mental development, and sometimes even causes mental impairment. Some assert that because it prevents people from working and learning to their full potential, poverty-born hunger causes even greater poverty in a vicious cycle.
- Poverty also restricts education, as many children leave school because their families need them to work. 1 in 4 children who enter primary school leave before reaching the last grade. 123 million young people between 15 and 24 lack basic reading and writing skills.
- Because they have no access to proper healthcare or education, people living in poverty are at heightened risk of diseases. 2.5 million people were infected with HIV in 2011, more than 8 million were diagnosed with tuberculosis, and 660,000 people died of malaria.
Here is a documentary of a family living is poverty.