As I researched poverty and formulated my presentation, I was focused on criticizing the myths but did not highlight the facts as much. Thus in this blog post I will focus on 11 facts on global poverty. In the first fact, it is evident the great impact poverty has on billions of lives, specifically a half of the world population is a current state of poverty with more than 3 billion people! This is absolutely shocking but it continues to worsen as 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty with an income of about 1.25 on a daily. What is even more devastating is out of these billions 1 billion children live in these conditions. According to UNICEF 22,000 kids die because of poverty. Now these are the two facts I wish to shed light upon specifically since it is the two that are issues that us (POP) advocate for. Our slogan is People Over Poverty, (hence the name) in which we value human lives over the economic state they are forced to live in. It is horrible that due to their social class, human rights of the poor are deprived and limited. This is a major problem, children are supposed to grow and proper in order to provide for the future generations but they cannot do so if their living conditions prevent them. Now please do read the link below and read through the facts, it is an excellent article with statistics to back up the facts and provides much more insight on poverty. Thanks for reading!
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-poverty
POP- People Over Poverty 