Poverty By: Taya Barber and Julia Cole

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

1 in 12 will go to bed hungry

tonight

More than 20,000 people perished

from extreme poverty yesterday.

For the price of 1 missile a school of hungry

children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Nearly 1 in 4 people live on less

than $1 a day!!

1 in 5

are in extreme poverty

By the time you’ve read this a person

has died of poverty related diseases

Earth has only 7 Billion people on it. The earth

can also produce food for over 40 billion people.

There are 3 types of

hunger

Acute, Chronic and Extreme.

Living in acute poverty means only making a

dollar a day which only meets basic

requirements

Child poverty has increased 50%

since the 1960’s

In 2009 24.7 million people over 65 were in poverty

925 Million PEOPLE SUFFERED FROM HUNGER IN 2010

SO WHAT CAN YOU DO TO

HELP?

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.

Problem:But… only 20% of

people in the rogue valley are donating

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

Every year, just from access the donate

over 100,000 pounds of food.

More than 200 hundred people

have died by now.

You can save them today.

Ask your parents if you can donate

food or volunteer at a local food kitchen.

With your help

We can make

POVERTY HISTORY!!

!

Bibliography

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