What is Ending Poverty?
What is Ending Poverty?
Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Poverty is currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day.
Costs of ignoring the problem
Costs of ignoring the problem
Benefits driving positive change
Benefits driving positive change
Huge economic costs around $4.2 billion per year spent on social services to poor people
Lower rates of deaths and healthy people
$500M per year spent on primary healthcare for impoverished children
High rates of educated people
287 million of illiterate people
Higher economic growth and welfare
1.5 million deaths each year
Reduction of disparities in the society
Nadya Okamoto
Nadya Okamoto
Social Entrepreneur
Social Entrepreneur
Nady Okamoto is a 23-year-old Harvard graduate.
She founded Period NGO an organisation fighting to end period poverty and stigma at the age of 16.
She has distributed more than 5 million menstrual products to people in need around the world in 2020.
Case Study
Case Study
The SOS Children's Villages in Africa work in 46 countries with orphaned and abandoned children find a new home in the 147 children's villages across the continent.
With their long-term development projects and emergency humanitarian aid, SOS Children's Villages has been fighting poverty in Africa since 1970.
Ideas youngsters can implement
Ideas youngsters can implement
Volunteering to build shelters for the homeless
Establish an act of kindness jar
Starting and maintaining a small vegetable garden
Organise and gather school supplies for the less fortunate
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