POVERTY

POVERTY

1. Consequences

   • Social
     • High Infant Mortality and Annual Death Rate.
     • Increase in hygiene and diet-related diseases.
     • More homeless people
   • Economic
     • Those who already have a roof over their heads may experience difficulty paying rent to their landlords and those without homes cannot afford a home or even a school for their children. Even they can't afford their basic needs
   • Political
     • Increased risk of war.
     • Mass emigration of population.
     • Terrorism.

2. Examples

   • Inadequate availability of clean water and nutritious food.
     • More than 2 billion people have no access to safe drinking water in their homes, while more than 800 million people suffer from hunger.
   • No or little access to livelihoods or jobs.
     • Without a job or a way to earn money, people face poverty.
   • Poor education
     • Many families can't afford to send their children to school and instead need them to work.

3. What is?

   • It is the state of those lacking a regular or socially an acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.
     • These needs can be defined as "those necessary for survival" or "those that reflect the prevailing standard of living in the community".

4. Institutions that help dilute poverty

   • Oxfam International
     • Mitigation of poverty and help with external doubts.
   • United Nations The World Bank
     • They make an alliance to end famine ( a big problem of poverty).
   • The Catholic Church
     • Helps to promote education and work. At the same time gives aid in food and community homes.

5. Reflextion

   • This topic made me think about many things
     • How lucky I am to have the basic necessities like food, water, school and a home.
     • How ungrateful we sometimes are with the things we have.
     • The great social difference that exists.
     • How important it is to have the basic necessities in order to have a good life.
     • How important it is to have the basic necessities in order to have a good life.
     • How important it is to help people and children to study and work.
     • The importance of studying to be able to have basic knowledge like reading, writing or even speaking.
     • It made me think that I should think of more ways to help people.
       • Donate clothes that are in good condition and not used.
       • Giving markets to families or organizations that help people
       • Help by giving school supplies to public schools
       • help street people with markets or toys

6. Experience of injustice with reasons.

   • In Bogota when I was like in 4 and I was between 8 to 9 years old, one day in my class we were talking about random things but suddenly we started talking about soccer and with some friends we started saying our favorite teams and things about it. when suddenly a guy told me that soccer is not a girl thing and that we shouldn't be talking about it.
     • Reasons
       • Because I was a woman
       • Because I didn't know much about it.
       • Because I was too little
       • "Because soccer is not a women's thing".

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