Poverty By: Brooke

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Poverty

Poverty is when you have almost nothing some people don’t even have clothes, food and houses, and your mad because you can’t get lulu lemon pant but your friend can. If you want chicken but your family wants hamburgers and you start to cry because you wanted chicken just stop and think about the family’s living in poverty that some days only get one meal. Just think about this the next time you are buying clothes or don’t get what you want just think of the kids living in poverty.

Poverty Around the world

• Over 3 billion people live in poverty • Almost half the world lives on less than $2.50

a day• 1 person dies every 3 and a half seconds

because they have no food or clean water

Kids in poverty

• 10.6 Million kids died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5

• 640 million kids live without shelter• 270 million kids have no access to health care

Facts About Poverty in Canada

• Saskatchewan, BC and Alberta have no poverty reduction plan

• Saskatchewan has the third highest rate of children living in poverty in Canada

• BC has the highest rate of poverty in Canada

How can you help

Chalice is a that work in Bolivia, Chile, Haiti and Ukraine is just some of the places. They helping family’s living in poverty, by giving the family a cow, the mother a stove and give kids a school.

To help What you can do to help stop poverty is donate to your local food bank, help with the shoe boxes at Christmas time and donate Charity or charity’s.http://www.ccgs.wa.edu.au/atccgs/publications-and-presentations/newsletters/14-september-2012/psnotices/operation-christmas-child/atccgs/publications-and-presentations/newsletters/14-september-2012/psnotices/operation-christmas-child/41252_419942308877_679335_n.jpg

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• http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty Kids in Poverty

•http://www.poverty.com/ Poverty around the World

• http://bcpovertyreduction.ca/learn-more/poverty-reduction-plans/ Poverty in Canada

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