1. Tackling Poverty
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2. What is poverty?
 Poverty is scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who
lacks a certain amount of material possessions or
money.
 About 21,000 people die every day of hunger or
hunger-related causes, according to the United
Nations.
 This is one person every four seconds, sadly, it is
children who die most often.
 Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone.
The problem is that hungry people are trapped in
severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough
food to nourish themselves. Being constantly
malnourished, they become weaker and often sick.
This makes them increasingly less able to work,
which then makes them even poorer and hungrier.
This downward spiral often continues until death for
them and their families.

3. An example of urban poverty in this slum
in Jakarta, Indonesia

4. Volunteering
 We can volunteer and work with the community.
 For example, we can help charities by going for flag
day.
 During flag day, student volunteers from all over
Singapore would congregate on a Saturday morning
and help raise funds. With their donation bags in toll,
volunteers would walk around the vicinity of their
collection centres and solicit for donations while giving
out stickers as a token of appreciation.
 Even though flag day is primarily a fundraising event
for Singapore Cancer Society, this would still be
helping the poor as many people would find the
treatment for cancer as expensive.

5. Donating
 We can also donate money to different charities
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which would benefit the poor.
Even though donating money is one of the most
common forms of donations, our group prefers
donating other items such as used textbooks that
are in good condition.
“Give a man to teach, and you will feed him for a
day. Teach a man how to fish, and you feed him
for a lifetime.”
Small amounts of money will not be able to help a
poor person as much as compared to a good
level of education.
With education, they would be able to get
themselves a job more easily and can possibly

6. THANK YOU!