Overcoming Poverty

Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve.

Words provoke preconceived ideas and images in the mind, when it comes to a situation like poverty these preconceived notions can have undesirable and unintended consequences. Diana George examines the semantics and the imagery of the word poverty in her article titled “Changing the Face of Poverty; Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation. While also addressing the issue of the perception poverty and what someone in poverty truly looks like (676). Prof. George is arguing that organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which are created to help people in poverty actually perpetuate the wrong image of what someone in poverty looks like (678). Most organizations created to help those in need, especially those in the US tend to portray poverty as what is seen and thought of as living conditions in Third World countries (683). In reality, poverty is all around each and every one of us in this country on a daily basis, and people might not always recognize it for what it is (681,682). Furthermore, the majority of people living in poverty in the United States do not live like or look like someone living in a Third World country. But in reality they are still living in poverty nonetheless (682,683). Organizations that portray people living in poverty here in the US as totally devastated and completely impoverished are doing a disservice to the people they are attempting to help. Consequently, by doing this they are giving a limiting idea of what someone living in poverty

Forty-six million people living in poverty in America today. America is the most wealthiest country in the world. America is called the “Land of Opportunity”, yet we have families who go to bed hungry each night. Poverty is defined as the state of being extremely poor. Lacking the most basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter. Their is a young girl living in a one room shack scooping the remaining beans from the stove onto a plate for herself. She is walking towards her corner of the room, while her mother does without anything to eat yet again for a second night. This is not in a third world country where this girl lives, but it is right here in America. Although people who live in poverty

The purpose and importance of fundamental education although coming from a generational poverty background. Does the generational poverty student complete secondary or post-secondary education with lack of resources? For example, can the generational setbacks hinder the 21st century student (Mortenson, T (1998). How does generational poverty effect the concentration level of the student in the everyday classroom environment? Overcoming generational poverty and thriving beyond the secondary level of education and completing post-secondary education (Mortenson, T (1996). Does the percentage of generational poverty effect students more who have completed post-secondary education versus those who don't complete their secondary education at all

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

The book, Microfinance and its Discontent: Women in Debt in Bangladesh written by Lamia Karim, gives us account on what causes a culture to be known as “economy of shame” status, such as in the case of Bangladesh. She writes on a subject that is a top list priority in the economical world these days, the corrupt ways NGO’s lenders do business not only in Bangladesh but across the world, however, she centralizes her views on Bangladesh and only a handful of NGO’s. Even though this was primarily a look at Bangladesh, it has resulted in capturing the attention of people across the globe not only with the NGO’s mention in the book but resulting in a closer look at all NGO’s and how they serve the people. Karim shares with the readers how the 1980’s nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) led in the way of microfinance institutions and claimed that they were providing women with an empowerment tool by issuing them loans. We find that over 80% of borrows are women and most are economically challenged already. With that being stated Karim also takes a look at how and why that is, she discusses the long term effects it is having on women and how it is furthering the exploitation of women in Bangladesh. She looked at how this type of exploitation has not only weakened further women’s economy in Bangladesh but has also strengthen the power NGO’s have over the people (mainly women) at the same time. It takes a look at this type of expansion and brands NGO’s use as a “shadow state

SPENT is a game that allows a person to make decisions concerning money to get through the month. It gives people an outlook of how difficult it can be to make it through the month with a low amount of income. It gives people a new outlook on poverty and why people in those positions make the decisions they do.

Functionalism is the belief that all aspects in a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of the of the society, even if the function of a class is to stay in poverty. There are certain groups that benefit when someone is thrown under the bus. It is functional to keep a class in poverty because they benefit people, it is difficult for the people in poverty to move out of poverty, and school funding is not equal for every school.

Poverty for centuries has been a very severe issue that has troubled many nations while impeding economic developments and progress. Poverty stricken countries are majorly concentrated in the continents of Africa and Asia. Continents like the Americas and Europe have globally been recognized as been wealthier yet still many parts of these ostensible countries face massive cases of poverty. Most at times, countries with high populations owing to high birth rates face the most cases of poverty. The definition of poverty can be boundless in the sense that poverty entails so many subsections as it sometimes gets complicated to group everything under one umbrella. Society tends to focus more on the tangible aspects of poverty because many people associate poverty with lacking money and it makes sense because poverty in terms of lacking money is a major problem affecting almost every country in the world. Even though it is debatable that poverty can be physical, intellectual, spiritual and even emotional, it is best to talk about the lack of money and economic developments in this essay. With reference to the oxford English Dictionary, poverty is state of being extremely poor and the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. Reflecting on this definition given, I deduced that malnutrition and hunger can define poverty. In the light of this, I think poverty is lacking a comfortable place of shelter, being ill and not having access to a better

There are three main arguments believed to be the explanations for the existence and persistence of poverty. The first account is the Dependency-Based Explanation that puts the blame of poverty to the individual or to their cultural background. The Exclusion-Based Explanation and Structural-Based Explanation are the next two which establishes the society that condemns people to poverty.

A social problem, is “a general factor that effects and damages society”. It can be used to describe an issue or a problem within a certain group of people or an area in the world. Examples of contemporary social problems today include anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, and sexual abuse. Poverty is an example of a social problem that exists all over the world, and to different extents. In the UK, poverty has effected at least a third of the population, as shown by the Office of National Statistics, providing evidence that it is a massive social problem in the country. Tameside has a big poverty problem. 1 in 4 children in Tameside are born into poverty, and workers in Tameside earn significantly less than other workers in the rest of the North-West area. In addition, Tameside has the largest proportion of people claiming unemployment benefits compared to the rest of the North West of England.

For thousands of people in the United States, poverty is a real life obstacle. People in poverty live pay check to pay check, and several of them rely on aids such as food stamps and welfare. Furthermore, families go hungry and can’t pay their bills, which presents them with family conflict and stress. In the game Spent, these issues bring themselves to our attention, and the player is faced with dilemmas thousands of people face on a day to day basis in the real world.

The development of rural Bangladesh has figured prominent in the development plans and programmes of the 1970s. It is well known that majority of the people of Bangladesh live mainly in rural area under mass poverty. Poverty reduction has therefore become an important aspect of rural development (Islam.1992). As women in Bangladesh compose half of the total population, it certainly demands a remarkable involvement of women in the process of development process to alleviate poverty. There have been many institutional involvements taken so far in this context.

While most people only think about poverty only in third world countries, it is very prominent in the United States. The effects of growing up in poverty are significant. Poverty affects many people in the local community, state, country, and world. It is more common than anyone realizes. Ultius, Inc says, “many children with grow up in poverty, and the effects can last throughout the lifespan. Although some researchers differently the main effects of growing up in poverty include poor health, a high risk for teen pregnancy, and the lack of an education.”

The surplus funds that all the enterprises under BRAC Enterprises provide fund many of BRAC’s non income earning activities, for instance, health and education programs. This has helped BRAC Bangladesh to be 80% donor independent. BRAC works to assist those with potential but do not have financial support or the confidence to succeed. BRAC Enterprises run with the vision of serving the society in a profitable, yet socially ethical manner and stand somewhere between a profit seeking and a non–profit social organization. The efforts of BRAC Enterprises are not driven towards maximizing profit and do not always operate on a purely commercial basis, but we work to benefit our stakeholders, i.e. the millions of deprived and disenfranchised poor of the country. BRAC works with people whose life is dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other handicaps, and BRAC strives to bring about positive changes in the quality of life through multifaceted development interventions. In this context, we think it very important to find the right balance between profit-seeking commercial activity and non-profit social activity. If the businesses aspect is to be emphasized in the context of sustainability, then exploitative business would thus be created. On the other hand, if idealism was to be emphasized on, then sustainability would be lost. We therefore seek to find a balance between a development and a commercial approach.