How is Poverty Defined Around the World?
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Around the world, 57 million primary school aged children are still not in school. Poverty is a global phenomenon that no matter where you go, individuals living in absolute poverty will never be far away. In 2001, 2.7 billion people were living on less than $2.00 a day and 1.1 billion people were living on under $1.00 a day. Poverty does not affect every region of the world equally.
On day 3, teachers will introduce different parts of the world and give students statistics based on the poverty levels of these regions. A majority of the worlds poorest countries are in Africa. This is due to confusion of land ownership, short term help from financial aid, and the problems with education, medicine, and drinking water. Diseases like AIDS, malaria, and cholera are widespread with the last two diseases involving poor water systems. Many of the countries in Africa need substantial prolonged aid to fund direct universal welfare benefit systems to help them climb out of poverty. African poverty often means widespread hunger and starvation and if you are too poor than you may have no resources to improve that.
Poverty in Asia is mainly due to the majority of the world's population and excessive population growth. Other restraints include education, medicine, clean water, and sanitation that are also inadequate. The current world recession is also causing family remittance from overseas workers or migrant works to fall. As more migrant workers lose their jobs in Western Europe and the US, it is causing their families in Central Asia to be hit hard.
In Latin America, poverty has been worsened in some countries due to migration, internal conflicts, and bad government. The pressure of population growth with scarce resources has also hit a huge tool on poverty. Lastly, poverty has been really hard to escape from for Latin American countries because of alliances with countries that have high interest rate aid loans.
In the United States, poverty has affected individual access to quality education. This is because education systems are funded by local communities. Therefore the quality of materials and teachers is reflective of the affluence of community.
In Day three's lesson, students will participate in a class discussion about poverty around the world. The teacher will discuss with their students the difference in poverty around the world and inform students that in some places poverty is less distinct than in others. If the students have any questions about poverty they will ask the teacher so that the teacher can answer them. On this day, it would be fun for the students to break into groups and each research poverty in a different country. There are different resources that have been listed on the outside resource tab that will be of help to the students. Once enough time has been provided, each small group will present their country to their classmates. Students can present their information on a poster board, powerpoint, whiteboard, etc. At the end of this lesson, students will understand how poverty differentiates throughout the world.
On day 3, teachers will introduce different parts of the world and give students statistics based on the poverty levels of these regions. A majority of the worlds poorest countries are in Africa. This is due to confusion of land ownership, short term help from financial aid, and the problems with education, medicine, and drinking water. Diseases like AIDS, malaria, and cholera are widespread with the last two diseases involving poor water systems. Many of the countries in Africa need substantial prolonged aid to fund direct universal welfare benefit systems to help them climb out of poverty. African poverty often means widespread hunger and starvation and if you are too poor than you may have no resources to improve that.
Poverty in Asia is mainly due to the majority of the world's population and excessive population growth. Other restraints include education, medicine, clean water, and sanitation that are also inadequate. The current world recession is also causing family remittance from overseas workers or migrant works to fall. As more migrant workers lose their jobs in Western Europe and the US, it is causing their families in Central Asia to be hit hard.
In Latin America, poverty has been worsened in some countries due to migration, internal conflicts, and bad government. The pressure of population growth with scarce resources has also hit a huge tool on poverty. Lastly, poverty has been really hard to escape from for Latin American countries because of alliances with countries that have high interest rate aid loans.
In the United States, poverty has affected individual access to quality education. This is because education systems are funded by local communities. Therefore the quality of materials and teachers is reflective of the affluence of community.
In Day three's lesson, students will participate in a class discussion about poverty around the world. The teacher will discuss with their students the difference in poverty around the world and inform students that in some places poverty is less distinct than in others. If the students have any questions about poverty they will ask the teacher so that the teacher can answer them. On this day, it would be fun for the students to break into groups and each research poverty in a different country. There are different resources that have been listed on the outside resource tab that will be of help to the students. Once enough time has been provided, each small group will present their country to their classmates. Students can present their information on a poster board, powerpoint, whiteboard, etc. At the end of this lesson, students will understand how poverty differentiates throughout the world.