POVERTYBoy’s Brigade Project

Elias ,Ivan ,Xian Ying

What is poverty? It is the state or condition of having

little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor.

The examples of poverty are : A person whom has not enough money to pay a person’s bills.

What is poverty ? The World Bank estimated 1.29 billion

people were living in absolute poverty in 2008.

Of these, about 400 million people in absolute poverty lived in India and 173 million people in China.

In fact, extreme poverty is a global challenge; it is observed in all parts of the world, including the developed countries.

What is poverty? However, there are charitable sponsors

that help to reduce poverty .In this case , our presentation would be referring to a charitable organisations as well . There are alternative uses of helping the poor other than just charitable organisations.

There are at least three common ways to reduce poverty.

The three ways to reduce poverty These are the three ways to reduce poverty:

1. Increase the wages of low skill labor or government redistribution policies.

The advice to get more education to avoid being poor works for individuals, but since for many jobs having a college education does not increase your productivity it cannot be a solution for everybody. There is also the problem of people who are poor due to mental or physical illness which can only be solved with subsidies

The three ways to reduce poverty

Through this ,poorer people can feed the family if they participate job skills ,to earn money

Today ,there are ways to reduce poverty ,when organisation is involved.

The organisation that we are going to talk about is” FREE THE CHILDREN “ organisation

What is “FREE THE CHILDREN” all about?(Part 1)

About :“FREE THE CHILDREN” :

Free The Children is an international charity and youth movement founded in 1995 by Craig Kielburger , a young Canadian man , that helps to prevent child labour and help rural communities, such as Kenya , Asia etc.

Their movement , which is the “ Adopt A Village” helps to provide four components: education, health care, alternative income, and clean water and sanitation

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What is “FREE THE CHILDREN” all about?(PART 2) In fact, among other projects,” Adopt a

Village” builds schools and water wells, and provides medical treatment and alternative income sources to people in developing. (Based on Clean water and Sanitation)

These projects are designed to address the root causes of poverty and remove the barriers to children’s education in the developing world.

What is “FREE THE CHILDREN” all about?(Pictures)

Here are just some pictures from “FREE THE CHILDREN” organisation .

These are the countries that are involved in are: Sierra Leone, Kenya, China and Sri Lanka.

Which are the countries that “FREE THE CHILDREN” organisation is involved?

The result? The organization updated its website to show that

it has now built 650 schools and school rooms which educate 55,000 children a day.

In addition to the following , Free the Children has also teamed up with Me to We, their partner organization, to offer international volunteer trips for youth.

They return with new perspectives and more energy than ever before to be involved in raising awareness and funds for overseas development projects through Free The Children.

“We Day” conference We Day is an annual "youth

empowerment" event. Held in cities across Canada, We Day

motivates youth to take action on local and global issues.

This annual event starts of as a year-long initiative encouraging students to participate in Free The Children’s campaigns, which raise awareness for local and international projects.

Summary There may be many social ,local and

global organisations or charities , however we must understand that poverty cannot be solved directly .All in all, we must be grateful for being fortunate.

We have prepared a video , just to summarise what we have learnt .

Video FREE THE CHILDREN Video :Free the Children

VideoAbout poverty:

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Free_the_Children

http://www.freethechildren.com/

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Day

Sources : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=-RiUHRCK0yw

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