This document discusses poverty statistics globally and locally. Some key points include: over 1 billion people live in extreme poverty worldwide, with half of Africa's population and 1 in 3 children living in poverty. The number of people in developing countries suffering from poverty and malnutrition has increased in recent decades. Locally, 1 in 10 families and 1 in 2 adults live in poverty in the Rogue Valley region, where food donations can help feed families for a week. The document encourages readers to donate or volunteer to help address poverty and hunger.

1. Poverty
By: Taya Barber
and Julia Cole

3. • About 1.1 billion people
live in extreme poverty
• In Africa half the
population live in
extreme poverty

4. • 1 in 3 children live in poverty.
• Child poverty has increased 50%
since the 1960’s.
• A third of all children live with
family whose income is below
poverty line.

6. • In developing countries 824
million suffered from poverty in
2010 it increased to 925 million.
• 1 in 3 people in developing
countries suffer from
malnutrition.

7. • 1 in 10 families live in
poverty
• 1 in 2 adults live in poverty
• An average homeless
family is a single mother
and 2 children under 6

9. 1 in 12 will go
to bed hungry
tonight

10. More than 20,000
people perished
from extreme
poverty yesterday.

12. For the price of 1 missile
a school of hungry
children could eat lunch
every day for 5 years

13. Nearly 1 in 4
people live on less
than $1 a day!!

14. 1 in 5

15. are in
extreme
poverty

16. By the time you’ve
read this a person
has died of poverty
related diseases

17. Earth has only 7 Billion
people on it. The
earth can also
produce food for
over 40 billion
people.

19. There are
3 types of
hunger

20. Acute,
Chronic and
Extreme.

22. Living in acute
poverty means only
making a dollar a day
which only meets
basic requirements

23. Child poverty
has increased
50% since the
1960’s

25. In 2009 24.7
million people
over 65 were
in poverty

26. 925 Million
PEOPLE
SUFFERED
FROM HUNGER
IN 2010

28. SO WHAT CAN
YOU DO TO
HELP?

30. ACCESS donates food to people
who are hungry here in the
rogue valley. For just $3 a
month you can feed a family of
4 for almost a week.

31. Problem:
But… only 20% of
people in the
rogue valley are
donating

32. That’s only 17
cents a day!!
That’s less than
the cost of a
postage stamp!

34. Every year, just
from access the
donate over
100,000 pounds
of food.

36. More than 200
hundred people
have died by
now.

37. You can
save them
today.

38. Ask your parents if
you can donate
food or volunteer at
a local food kitchen.

39. With your
help

40. We can
make

41. POVERTY
HISTORY!!!

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