Poverty

1. Poverty Today: Guest Speakers Red Cross and Coach Art Poverty Globally

2. Social Location - Advantage Walk The purpose of this exercise is to provide participants with an opportunity to understand the intricacies of social location in American society.

3. Social Location - Advantage Walk Common themes in reflections • Biggest advantages listed: parents, grandparents, public school, health, overall appreciation • Obstacles: parents’ education, finances, alcoholism, parent that passed away, language barriers • Some obstacles not mentioned in questions: emotional instability in home life, special learning needs, abuse • Questions reflect SOME aspects of social location, outline some of the topics we will look at this semester

4. Defining and Measuring Poverty Poverty: lack of resources necessary for well-being: Food Water Housing Health care

5. Defining and Measuring Poverty Relative poverty: deficiency in material resources compared with some other population.

6. Defining and Measuring Poverty Absolute poverty: Lack of resources that leads to hunger and physical deprivation Life threatening

7. Poverty Globally Source: Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 by TransparencyInternational.org

8. Poverty Globally

9. Problems of Poverty Hunger Malaria Measles Tuberculosis AIDS Pneumonia Diarrhea 11 million children under the age of 5 die each year because of preventable diseases and malnutrition. –World Health Organization

10. Diseases and Non-profit Organizations Work in groups of 5-6. Read the excerpt.Depending on your article, answer the following questions Poverty’s Diseases • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/ treatments are there? • Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher Don’t write on info sheet. Save paper-clips Write down answers and names Non-profit Organizations • What is the mission of the organization? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization (why or why not)? • Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher 15 minutes

11. computer screen door Team 1 B Claudia L Osvaldo M Lizbeth G Gerardo L Britnee B Ashley Team 11 McOsker Caoimhe Cananea Jessa Alvarez Lauro Ballesteros Sofia VCervantes Yunuen Team 2 Flores Cynthia Nguyen Henry Mansour Eiriny Rodriguez Christian Akiba Chisato Kang Michelle Team 3 Molina Areli Alvarez Rosio Chu Alex Pilone Alyssa Padilla Josue Campbell Catherine Team 4 Holguin Madison Lucero Adriana Duran Marisol Liu Wen-Hao Marquez Wendy Garcia Viviana Team 5 Calaquian Meryl Cardenas Jose Cameron Jonathan Adams Shannon Escobar Vanessa Harden Jennifer Team 6 Martin Sebastian Sanchez Wendy Carrillo Jasmine Kwak Samuel Winders Molly Team 7 Khan Bisma Hirabayashi Marc Bedolla Ricky Perez Cynthia Zalenski Peter Team 8 Lam Thang Gonzalez Ana Barrera Sabrina Dheming Steve Hernandez Annie Team 9 Kim Daniel Martinez Angie Kim Sara Ventura Alejandro Peper Derek Team 10 Rangel Christopher Torres Mildred Ramirez Jessica Hernandez Joanna Cervantes Nancy Back of class

12. Diseases and Non-profit Organizations Work in groups of 5-6. Read the excerpt.Depending on your article, answer the following questions Poverty’s Diseases • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/ treatments are there? • Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher Don’t write on info sheet. Save paper-clips Write down answers and names Non-profit Organizations • What is the mission of the organization? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization? • Select 1-2 people from your group to share what you found, 1 recorder, 1 researcher 15 minutes

13. For your notes Diseases: write down name of disease and solutions Non-profits: write down name of organization and what they do

14. Malaria • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/treatments are there?

15. Measles • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/treatments are there?

16. Tuberculosis • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/treatments are there?

17. Diarrhea • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/treatments are there?

18. Pneumonia • What is it? • How many people die yearly worldwide? • Why is it deadly? • How is poverty a factor? • What solutions/treatments are there?

19. Feeding Americahttp://feedingamerica.org/ • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?

20. Wine to Waterhttp://www.winetowater.org/ • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?

21. Meals on Wheelshttp://www.mowaa.org/ • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?

22. Kivahttp://www.kiva.org/ • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization? http://www.kiva.org/lend/342858 http://www.kiva.org/lend/340654

23. Oxfamhttp://www.oxfam.org • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?

24. Mercy Corpshttp://www.mercycorps.org • What is the mission? • How does it work? • Who does it help? • What can we do? • Would you recommend others to donate time or money to this organization?

25. Pass up group work with first and last names Pass up info sheets re-attached with paperclips

26. Solutions to Poverty • Organizations mentioned are listed as Top 10 Poverty Fighting Non-Profits by TakePart.org • Other ways to be a part of the solution: www.charitynavigator.org • This website provides rating as well as CEO compensation

27. View: The Way We Live. Ups and Downs of Global Stratification How did Doctors Without Borders start? What is their charter?  What is brain drain? How is the role of women a factor? What do you think about the increase in care workers in the United States from other countries? Answer questions on Video Note Taking Guide while watching 56 secs start-9 11-13 16:30

28. Provide assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened due to: • armed conflict • epidemics • malnutrition • natural disasters. 1999 Nobel Peace Prize

29. Next Class Read article on website: Hunger in the United States

30. Malaria • Over a million people die from malaria each year • Spread by mosquitoes • Anti-malarial drug often not available • Best cure is prevention, mosquito nets for beds • $6 donation can provide a net to save lives UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO).

31. Measles • A million deaths per year • Do not usually die directly of measles, but from its complications • Preventable through vaccines • Less than $1 per vaccination can save lives UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO).

32. Tuberculosis • Kills well over 1.5 million people each year • Highly contagious – one person can infect 15 • Children can be vaccinated, adults cannot • Long antibiotic treatment needed

33. Diarrhea • Kills 1.6 million people each year, almost all of them children. • Result of unclean water • Malnutrition causes death • Treatable with a mixture of water, salt, and sugar that replenishes the lost fluids

34. Pneumonia • Kills more than 2 million children each year • Contagious • Not enough doctors or health care • Solution-train one person in each village to recognize symptoms and dispense antibiotics