What Is Poverty?

• Poverty is hunger.
• Poverty is lack of shelter.
• Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor or afford one.
• Poverty is not having a job, or a future - living one day at atime.
• Poverty is not having access to school and being unable to read.
• Poverty is losing a child to an illness (that is preventable).
• Poverrty is lack of power.
• Pooverty is lack of voice andrepresentation.
• Poverty is lack of freedom.

NOTE: Poverty is a call to action - for the poor and the rich alike - a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their community.

Child Poverty - The Facts

• A child will die in the next 2 seconds because of hunger. Can you believe it?
  

• Every year 15 million children die of hunger.

• 6 million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.
  

• More than 153 million of the world's malnourished people are children under the age of 5.
  

• Malnutrition can severely affect a child's intellectual development. malnourished children often have stunted growth and score significantly lower on math and language achievement tests than do well-nourished children.