The document discusses various ways to help address extreme poverty around the world. It notes that poverty levels in places like the Congo are very high, with 71% of people experiencing malnutrition. It also discusses how foreign aid from countries like the US has been misused in some places. Several organizations have been set up to better monitor foreign aid. The document suggests that more education is needed worldwide to help address poverty. It provides some examples of organizations and websites people can get involved with to help address poverty issues.

1. What can we do to help stop it?
By Pamela Marie Comens

2.  The world bank defines extreme poverty as not
having enough income to meet the most basic
human needs such as sanitation, health care, or
education.

3.  The United States alone has a 12.6% poverty
level with 45,950 for household income
 United States 2.5% malnutrition
 Congo 71% malnutrition

4.  Wall Street Journal broke a story of how
Afghanistan officials were literally taking
money from the United States Foreign Aid
fund and leaving the country.
 Results of this is that the United States cut
foreign aid to Afghanistan by 4.5 billion
dollars.

5.  The United States government set up three
organizations so far to keep an eye for the
misuse of foreign aid money that is supposed
to be for poverty stricken areas.
 Presidential Study Directives on Global
Development
 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development
Review
 Initiating Foreign Assistance Reform Act of
2009

6.  Making sure we could try to put an end to
poverty all together would mean we would
have to enforce more education in the world.
 The schools, churches, commercials that show
poverty just isn’t for third world countries but
also here in the United States.
 We need to get everybody on the same
thinking path to help put an end to world
poverty, so these adults, children and everyone
in between can be healthier, live longer, get a
better education.

7.  If the people in the state of Massachusetts gave
up a cup of coffee a day for a year the U.S.
government could give 14.4 billion dollars to
keep a few children from dying of hunger.

8.  Young students and their teachers can help
even more with poverty and trying to alleviate
it by joining and reading further into what it is
and the damage it can cause for any country
that has severe poverty stricken areas in it.
 The adults need to show the teenagers where to
go to help with this sort of problem and what
sites they can visit or what type of volunteer
work can be done in their own neighborhood
to help with local families that need this kind of
assistance also.

9.  There are several different ways to help with
trying to end poverty around the globe.
 To be part of the action you need to step up to
the plate and look into all the information you
can to help with ending poverty.
 Some of the sites for this are: Net aid: student
center, Just give.org donor info: 20 ideas for
volunteering, Habitat for humanity: ccyp.2006
 The Borgen project.2006

10.  Cutbacks in health, education, and other vital
social services around the world have resulted
from structural adjustment policies prescribed
by the International Monetary Fund(IMF) and
the World Bank as conditions for loans and
repayment.
Also, in addition, developing nation
governments are supposed to open their
economies to compete with each other and
with more powerful and established
industrialized nations.

11.  To attract investment, poor countries enter a
spiraling race to the bottom to see who can
provide lower standards, reduced wages and
cheaper resources.
By this happening, it has increased poverty and
inequality for most people. This also forms a
backbone to what we today call globalization.
As a result, it maintains the historic unequal
rules of trade.

12.  Overall, poverty needs to equal out and come
to an end so people have healthier lifestyles
and children can get the life they deserve.
 The children can live healthier, happier, and
have the family life they so deserve and not a
short life that may take them to barely age 5,
because of malnutrition and other reasons.

13.  American Poverty Relief.(2010). Retrieved
from the internet on October 22, 2011
from website: www.feedthechildren.org
 Corruption in Foreign Aid Undermines our
Strategy in Afghanistan(2010). Retrieved
from the internet on October 22, 2011 from
web site:
online.wsj.com/article/5b10001424052748
703999304573999422902747074.html.

14.  How you can help Alleviate Poverty. (2010).
Retrieved from internet on October 22, 2011
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 Causes of Poverty. (2011 September 24).
Retrieved from internet on October 22, 2011
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http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/caus
es-of-poverty.

15.  Singer, P. (2009 March 13). America’s Shame.
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 Singer, P. (2009, March 18). The Life You Can
Save: Acting Now to End Poverty. Retrieved
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http://www.carniecouncil.org/resources/tr
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