Poverty
Nate Unzen and Sammie Peterson
Nate Unzen and Sammie Peterson
Children:
There are 2.2 billion children in the world and 1 billion (every second child) lives in poverty. For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world, there are 640 million without water, 400 million with no access to safe water, and 270 million with no access to health services. So many children have died due to poverty, and not being taken care of. Worldwide, 1.4 million children die each year from lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized, and due to HIV/AIDS.
Poverty in Economics:
Countries with poverty don’t live as healthy as countries that don’t have poverty do. Like Sudan, and Haiti for example, live in poverty. Their lifespan is dramatically shorter, because of the diseases, lack of nutrition, and lack of medical care. Countries that live in poverty, have bad economies. The better your economy in your country, the less poverty you see. Almost half the world, over three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, and at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. Poverty has been rapidly increasing since the 1800’s.
Poverty to wealth ratio statistics:
-1820: 3 to 1
-1820: 3 to 1
-1913: 11 to 1
-1950: 35 to 1
-1973: 44 to 1
-1992: 72 to 1
*Has increased rapidly*
*Has increased rapidly*
What do you feel the US and other industrialized countries could do better to help the poverty in other countries?
9 comments:
We being the US and UN should step in and make the lives of those people in those countries better and so they can live a more filled life.
I feel like we could send more aid over there. We do have alot but i feel like they could use more! It is very sad to see poeple in poverty! i wish i could help them myself
Other industrialized countries could donate as much money as they can afford to the other countries. They could also donate food and safe water to them.
I feel like they could give to these countries as they do now but they could do it to a higher extent. We already aid poor countries but we could in the future give more and more.
Leandra---
We already donate and have numerous foundations for these children. It is the company that should do something instead of the company's taking out 80% of the profit for there own satisfaction they should take less then ten percent. They will increase the amount of food and water the children get.
I think that industrialized countries should help start up and stimulate economies in these countries in addition to programs that are already in place. If the economy relates to life spans and poverty than helping them to start up economies should help their countries more in the long run.
I think that industrialized countries could give money, safe water, food, and vaccinations to the poorer countries. They could also help to stimulate the economies in the poorer countries so that those countries economies can grow. We do already aid a lot of countries, but we could always do more.
I think that we should send some people to these poorer countries and have them help on disease and give them aid. Sending them supplies like food and water
I think that wealthier nations such as the United States need to focus their attention on helping countries build better economic systems in an effort to help them help themselves. However, I do believe that immediate aid is essential in time of famine, national disaster, war, or other similar events.
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