Edwin

Edwin April 28, 2011


 * __My Guiding Questions__**
 * **Who is responsible for poverty or is anyone responsible for it?**
 * **Why is there poverty?**
 * **Where does it occur most?**
 * **When did poverty start?**
 * **What can we do to help or help stop it?**
 * **When will poverty stop?** (new)

Any lacking on basic needs are considered as poverty.About 1 child will die due to Poverty every three seconds. That's 20 kids in 1 minute! Gross National Income or GNI helps country that have higher income to give part of their money to countries that need it. In 2005, Canada gave 0.34% and 0.3% in 2006. Around 850 million people in world that suffer malnutrition. Malnutrition is basically occurs if the body does not receives nutrients. It could be temporarily but if it happens for a long period of time then you could have a permanent on the body. 28% of the kids that are age less than 5 in developing countries are underweight. At the same time, there are 26% of the kids in Canada are overweight or obese. Unclean water was the world's second biggest killer to kids at the beginning of year 2000. There's about 1.1 billion people in the world that have no access to clean water. A person might only use up to 10L per day in a developing country. Compared to Canada, average use by 1 person is 335L.



The image above shows the most recent number of hungry people around the world:
 * Total of 925 million hungry people around the world
 * Most people are in Asia and the Pacific ( 578 million)
 * Developed countries have the least amount of hungry people

__Facts from Squidoo__
 * 70% of the world's poor are women.
 * Women lead 80-90% of the poor families
 * In every 5 children, there will always be 1 that does not have access to clean water
 * In every 7 children, there will always be 1 that does not have access to health care
 * In developing countries, 153 million children under 5 are underweight



From the youtube video below, I found out:
 * That the world population is around 6.5-7 billion people.[]
 * 2.2 billion are children[]
 * 1 billion of them are in poverty
 * Therefore, in the you tube video it said there was 4.7 billion people facing poverty is it very possible and likely
 * Also, in the video there was pictures of a child getting water, and the water doesn't look clean
 * I also thought if poverty was not common in our community, but if we look at it worldwide more than half of the world is facing poverty
 * All this makes me think of my guiding questions **Who is responsible for poverty or is anyone responsible for it?** Well, I think it goes along with the place you live in, for example Canada has a whole bunch of natural resources and other countries don't
 * That makes their economy smaller than ours
 * **Why is there poverty?** and **When did poverty start?** To me poverty is there because they are not lucky and we just are and we should be grateful for it.
 * Poverty can start almost at anytime and anywhere so I change my question it should be **When will poverty stop?** Like really if I knew when it start will I be able to help?
 * **When will poverty stop?** Maybe when everyone stands up to help stop this injustice from happening in our world. For now all we can do is spread the word, be grateful for what we have and donate money but be sure it is reliable

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[|http://article.wn.com/view/2008/08/31/Poverty_is_terrorism_to]

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