A website created for our GP Group to raise awareness and to raise funds for Poverty and Inequality around the world.
Poverty and Inequality
Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. It’s a commonly known worldwide problem that is yet to be solved. The numbers in relation to poverty are staggering, especially in countries in Africa or Asia. When it comes to poverty, depending on the government has been proven ineffective, so, individuals in the community have decided to build charities with a main purpose of helping the community by collecting donations and reploughing them to feed, shelter and finance poor people.
Top 10 poor countries in the world:
1-DR Congo (GDP per Capita:$500)
2-Mozambique (GDP per Capita:$514)
3-Uganda (GDP per Capita:$798)
4-Tajikistan (GDP per Capita:$928)
5-Yemen (GDP per Capita:$996)
6-Haiti (GDP per Capita:$975)
7-Ethiopia (GDP per Capita:$1,210)
8-Tanzania (GDP per Capita:$1,228)
9-Kyrgyzstan (GDP per Capita:$1,310)
10-Uzbekistan (GDP per Capita:$1,566)
Top 5 poor countries
in each continent:
Africa:
1-Somalia (GDP per capita: $500)
2-Central African Republic (GDP per capita: $681)
3-Democratic Republic of the Congo (GDP per capita: $785)
4-Burundi (GDP per capita: $808)
5-Liberia (GDP per capita: $867)
Asia:
1-North Korea (GDP per capita:$651)
2-Nepal (GDP per capita:$718)
3-Tajikistan (GDP per capita:$729)
4-Yemen (GDP per capita:$851)
5-Kyrgyzstan (GDP per capita:$1,004)
South America:
1-Venezuela (GDP per capita:$3,374)
2-Bolivia (GDP per capita:$3,683)
3-Guyana (GDP per capita:$4,689)
4-Suriname (GDP per capita:$5,799)
5-Ecuador (GDP per capita:$6,315)
North America:
1-Haiti (GDP per capita:$671)
2-Nicaragua (GDP per capita:$1,997)
3-Honduras (GDP per capita:$2,172)
4-Guatemala (GDP per capita:$3,838)
5-El Salvador (GDP per capita:$4,131)
Europe:
1-Moldova (GDP per capita:$2,289)
2-Ukraine (GDP per capita:$2,639)
3-Kosovo (GDP per capita:$3,893)
4-Albania (GDP per capita:$4,537)
5-Bosnia and Herzegovina (GDP per capita:$5,674)
Causes of poverty:
• Rapid population growth
-Increase in the number of individuals leads to low standards of living
• Natural disasters
-Natural event causes great damage or loss of life
• Political instability
-Conflicts or rampant competition hurts economic growth and employment levels
• Lack of education
-People who have a below-average level of common knowledge suffer poor health, lack of voice, shorter lifespan, unemployment and gender inequality
• Insufficient country revenue
-fiscal systems can worsen poverty levels.
• Inadequate rate of taxes
-Taxing poor families makes it harder to work their way to self-sufficiency and reduce their resources to pay for additional expenses.
• Economic decline and trade obstacle
-Great depression and trade barriers descending global economy.
• Poor governance
-Weak governance doom developing countries to poverty.
• Conflicts and Corruptions
-Conflict and corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise and have very high costs for society that weakening the government and causing discontent.
• Civil Wars
-Civil wars causing damage to infrastructure, institutions and productions, break up of communities and social networks, displacement, high unemployment and inflation levels.
• Dependence on agriculture
-Farmers depend on agriculture suffer from drought, flood, lack of adequate use of inputs, poor extension leading to large yield gaps and crop failure.
Consequences of poverty:
• Family conflict
• Physical Health problems
• Low education rate
• High crime rates
• Antisocial behavior
• Unemployment
• Psychological Problems
• Mental health problems
• Drug and alcohol use
• Low standard of living
Sources:
Poorest countries in the world:
https://www.focus-economics.com/blog/the-poorest-countries-in-the-world
https://www.concernusa.org/story/worlds-poorest-countries/
Poorest Countries in Africa:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poorest-countries-in-africa
Poorest Countries in Europe:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poorest-countries-in-europe
Poorest Countries in South America:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in-south-america.html
Poorest Countries in North America:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poorest-countries-in-north-america
Types of Inequality:
-Wage inequality
-CEO pay
-Homelessness
-Gender pay gaps
-Racial gaps in education
-Racial discrimination
-Health insurance
-Wealth inequality
-Social inequality
Inequality is the unfair treatment distributed among different types of people in society. Whether it's between women and men, different races or different beliefs, there is common unfair treatment when it comes to payment. This could affect these disadvantaged people mentally in a negative way. We hope this could give awareness to whoever lacks it in order to have a happier, more stable and fairly treated community in the future.
Causes of Inequality:
• Lack of education
• Lack of innovation
• Gender inequality
• Political goals
• Globalisation
• Tax evasion
• Discrimination
How to help:
North America:
Haiti Charities:
Hope for Haiti
Hotline: (239) 434-7183
Email: [email protected]
WE Charity
Hotline: 1-604-875-8791
Email: [email protected]
Nicaragua Charities:
ANF
Hotline: (505) 2264-5600 ext. 300
Email: [email protected]
SOS Childrens Villages
Hotline: +44 1223 365 589
Email: [email protected]
Honduras Charities:
Shoulder 2 Shoulder inc
Fax: 540-554-2681
Email: [email protected]
One Earth Conversation inc
Hotline: +1 718-776-7284
Email:
[email protected]
Guatemala Charities:
Wuqu' Kawoq
Hotline: 502-7840-3112
Email: [email protected]
Population Council
Hotline: +1 212 339 0500
Email: [email protected]
[01:06, 20/11/2020] Nour el Din: El Salvador Charities:
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation
Hotline: 1-800-992-8858
Email: [email protected]
Plan International
Hotline: +353 (1) 5685861
Email: [email protected]
South America:
Venezuela Charities:
Americares
Hotline : 203.658.9500
Email: [email protected]
World Vision
Hotline: +18885116548
No email
Bolivia Charities
Fundacion Helping Hands-La Paz
Hotline: +591 2 2494106
Email:
[email protected]
Smiles Forever
Hotline:
(+1) (206) 407-3855
Email: [email protected]
Guyana Charities:
Guyana Medical Relief
Hotline:1-855-466-5887
No email found
Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps
Hotline: 8655791530
Email: [email protected]
Suriname Charities:
The Carter Center
Hotline: (404) 420-5100
Email: [email protected]
Sign Fracture Care International
Hotline: 509.371.1107
Email: [email protected]
Ecuador Charities:
Brother's Brother Foundation
Hotline: 412-321-3160
No email found
Christian Blind Mission
Hotline: +49 6251 131-131
No email found
Europe:
https://www.themoldovaproject.com/
https://www.ukrainecharity.org/https://www.ukrainecharity.org/
https://care.org/our-work/where-we-work/kosovo/
https://charitybosniankids.org/
https://www.caritas.org/where-caritas-work/europe/albania/
Africa:
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/countries/democratic-republic-congo
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/mozambique
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/uganda
https://www.care.org.au/country/ethiopia/
https://www.africanchildrensfund.org/tanzania
Asia:
https://www.oxfam.org/en/what-we-do/countries/tajikistan
https://www.savethechildren.org/us/where-we-work/yemen
https://europe.mercycorps.org/en-gb/where-we-work/kyrgyzstan
Videos:
1-
https://www.facebook.com/kader.amiur/videos/998327333584688/
2-https://www.facebook.com/emiratetai/videos/662596040982990/
3-https://www.facebook.com/everyyday/videos/1475787999126900/
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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1080725835468316&id=503641643176741
We decided to make a survey to determine how much people from all around the world know about Poverty.
We got responses from men and women
we also received responses from a wide variety of age groups
These were the questions we asked
In your opinion do you think the bigger cause of poverty is that people are not doing enough to help themselves or that issues beyond them caused them to be poor?
The replies we got to that question was:
1.I believe there is just not enough resources and support is provided to help people in poverty receive a better quality of life. I would argue that people trapped in poverty are the most hard-working/creative individuals with the limitations of finance holding them back. They manage to find ways to make money and feed themselves, their families, and the community whereas a middle-class family would struggle if they didn’t have their office job to rely on.
2.Issues beyond them - government legislation, allocation of taxes, corruption; nationwide violence and war; historical and societal issues (e.g. discrimination, lasting impacts of colonisation); growing wealth inequality perpetuated by those already in wealth; lack of support and education at a young age.
3.Complex question ,the is problem is multi factorial :Firstly shortage of possibility Of education so no good opportunity for them, the absence of social justice,no good clear modality of the management of the poverty.
4.Neutral, because some people rely on charities and the government to give them money and other stuff to help them . In this case poverty becomes a big problem that has no end and in other cases , living in a poverty life is not a choice some people lack life-luck and chances that might help them but it will not be that big problem since these people want to change.
5.Neither - I think that the main causes of poverty are various actions by the governments of the world, like welfare (which causes welfare traps), minimum wages and labor laws (which cause unemployment and push workers into the gray/black market), restrictions on trade and freedom to do business (which decrease the amount of opportunities available to everyone), high taxes, and so on.