Making Strides in Eradicating Poverty and Hunger

How You Can Help the Hungry

1. Donate money. Many relief agencies are seeing budget shortfalls in the millions—if not hundreds of millions—of dollars this year.
2. Support food banks.
3. Waste time for a cause.
4. Reduce food waste.
5. Reward retailers.

Why should I care? We all want our families to have enough food to eat that is safe and nutri- tious. A world with zero hunger can positively impact our economies, health, education, equal- ity and social develop- ment. It’s a key piece of building a better future for everyone.

1. Provide governments zero-interest development financing, grants, and guarantees.
2. Offer technical assistance and other advisory services to reduce poverty and malnutrition.
3. Use safety nets and nutrition programs to cushion the impact of the food and financial crises.

9 Ways to Reduce Poverty

1. Increase employment.
2. Raise America’s pay.
3. Sustain not cut the social safety net.
4. Paid family and sick leave.
5. End mass incarceration.
6. Invest in high quality childcare and early ed.
7. Tackle segregation and concentrated poverty.
8. Immigration reform.

How to Stop Poverty

• Create Awareness. Social media has become an integral part of daily life, and now is the time to use it as a voice of social good.
• Take Action on Your Own.
• Donate.
• Eliminate Gender Inequality.
• Create Jobs Worldwide.
• Increase Access to Proper Sanitation and Clean Water.
• Educate Everyone.

Education is often referred to as the great equalizer: It can open the door to jobs, resources, and skills that a family needs to not just survive, but thrive. Access to high-quality primary education and supporting child well-being is a globally-recognized solution to the cycle of poverty.

What are the causes of poverty? Explain in at least 5 points

1. Increase rate of rising population:
2. Less productivity in agriculture:
3. Less utilization of resources:
4. A short rate of economic development:
5. Increasing price rise:
6. Unemployment:
7. Shortage of capital and able entrepreneurship:
8. Social factors:

Write a letter to fight hunger! Start by encouraging friends and family to contact your local representatives. You can write a letter on the causes of children poverty and what we can do to end hunger! Organize a food drive at your school. Create posters and flyers to raise awareness on the problems of poverty.

You can help struggling students succeed in school by donating your time or money as a tutor or a regular person. You might tutor children in reading, spelling, current events, Algebra, writing, cursive, Math, Science, History, and/or English as a Second Language.

1. 5 Ways In Which You Can Start Educating Underprivileged Children Right Now.
2. Rent a small van/mini-bus and start a weekend mobile-school.
3. Start a classroom right inside your living room!
4. Start a library with old books.
5. Setup a small training unit to teach skills to children.

And now without a further ado, let’s see the good excuses not to go to school for strict parents, starting with number 11:

• Left your homework/project at home.
• You had a bad toothache.
• Something bad happened, you were in tears so couldn’t go to class.
• Other kids made fun of you, so you hid.

Unemployment, a low level of health, sickness and lack of interest from the parents are common factors that increase the probability of non-schooling and dropout average twice. The truth is that most of the children from developing countries leave their education back due to problems related to health and economy.

The Effects of Poverty on Education Poverty reduces a child’s readiness for school because it leads to poor physical health and motor skills, diminishes a child’s ability to concentrate and remember information, and reduces attentiveness, curiosity and motivation.

5 Ways Policy Makers Can Improve the Quality of Education

1. Acknowledge and address overcrowding.
2. Make funding schools a priority.
3. Address the school-to-prison pipeline.
4. Raise standards for teachers.
5. Put classroom-running and curriculum-building decisions in the hands of the community.

Children’s lack of access to school, the failure of schools to retain their students, and the “learning crisis” are key problems that the global community needs to address to meet educational targets, say campaigners. According to Unesco, 264 million children are out of school for the third year running.