1. NAME: HATHBOUR MOHAMED
ID: H00253420
SECTION: CMA

2. CONTENTS PAGE
 Poverty
 Causes
 Solution
 Bibliography

3. POVERTY
 What does poverty means ?
 Poverty is the lack of basic necessities
that all human beings must have:
food and water, shelter, education,
medical care, security, etc.
 Relative poverty: needs to live, such as food,
sanitation, and health care are met, but just barely.
 Moderate poverty: live on 1 to 2 dollars per day
 Extreme poverty: less than 1 dollar per day

4. WHERE IS POVERTY FOUND ?

5. CAUSES
 1. Natural disasters
 People lose their homes and their jobs
 2. war and civil unrest
 Destroys farms and businesses
 Almost 30,000 children under the age of five die
every day from malnutrition and preventable diseases.
That’s one kindergarten class every minute.

6. SOLUTION
 If it doesn’t affect you and me, why should we care ?
 Of the total 6 billion people in the world 3 billion
are living in poverty.
 Put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
 Donate food that wont spoil to food banks.
 Donate things you don’t use to charity

7. WHAT DOES A DOLLAR MEAN TO YOU
?
YOU
 A pen
 A piece of candy
 A small drink
 A pack of gum
 A pad of paper
Probably something you will
use for a day, and throw away
the next.
POOR
Another day to live

8. THE POVERTY CYCLE
People in
poverty
have
children
The parents
don’t have
money to
provide a
good life for
their child
The child
also lives in
poverty
The
children
grow up
and cannot
support
their
families.

9. QUOTES
 Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
 Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty
are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 demographic. (n.d.). Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
 Shah, A. (n.d.). Causes of Poverty — Global Issues. Global
Issues : social, political, economic and environmental issues that
affect us all — Global Issues. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-povert