CALL TO ACTION | Chapter 4 Exercise 47B Identifying global poverty and its effects
Key Skills Success criteria
I can give examples showing how extreme poverty is concentrated in certain places and some eff ects of it.
Working in pairs, discuss the statements and tick whether you think they are true or false. True False
1. India has the greatest number of people living in extreme poverty. 2. Nearly 356 million children in the world live in extreme poverty. 3. Half a billion children live in multidimensional poverty. 4. A person earning €29,000 is among the world’s richest people.
5. 30% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (south of the Sahara) lives in extreme poverty.
6. Children are more than twice as likely as adults to be living in extreme poverty. 7. Almost three-fi fths of the world’s extreme poor live in just fi ve countries.
8. Approximately 297,000 children under fi ve die every year from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene or unsafe drinking water.
9. Malnutrition is the second most common cause of poor health and death around the world.
10. Only 40% of adults in Niger can read and write, because they had little or no education as they had to work to provide extra income for the family.
Exercise 47C Identifying symptoms of poverty Key Skills
Success criteria
I can name symptoms of poverty.
Working in pairs, discuss the following and tick the ones that are symptoms of poverty.
1. Children begging on the street 2. Adults hanging around the streets in groups talking for long periods in the day 3. A Christmas party in a nice restaurant 4. Toilets shared by a number of households 5. Unsafe neighbourhoods 6. People with sores and unhealthy-looking skin 7. Nail bars 8. People sleeping in railway stations 9. No clean drinking water
10. Children not going to school from the age of 14 216