What Is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic human needs. For example: clean water, good nutrition and health, clothing, education and shelter. The reason this is so bad, is these kids are living in conditions that they can't help. Almost 1.7 people are living in complete poverty.


This is a slum in Indonesia. An example of extreme poverty.

According to the United Nations, one person dies every three and a half seconds. Unfortunatly, it is the children who die most often. On Friday, December 3rd 2010, during the hour of 10:00am, Over 1043 people died of hunger and poverty. This is a number that we should not even be seeing when it comes to a topic like this! We have to do something to help. But what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
http://poverty.com/


Hoped you liked it!!

~Julia Wilkie