What is poverty?

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 We taking granted of others rights, deprivation of food,water, shelter & education.

Most of us would know poverty means just “not having food”,
but according to the world organizations, Poverty is the short/deprivation
of common necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water,
all of which determine a quality of life.

It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and
employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the
respect of fellow citizens. According to Mollie Orshansky who developed the
poverty measurements today used by the U.S. government.

“To be poor is to be deprived of those goods and services and pleasures which others around us take for granted”.

Here are some actions we can take to end poverty

Hunger / Poverty Related

  • Organise a free lunch/food distribution
  • Distribute free improved seeds, fertilisers

Child / Education Related

  • Donate used-books / stationeries
  • Build / Reconstruct/retrofit community schools

Health / Public Sanitation Related

  • Blood donation Camp
  • Improve basic sanitation facilities
  • Mosquito nets distribution
  • Free medical check-up camps

Environmental Related

  • Tree plantation campaign
  • Mobilise community to protect trees
  • Mobilise community to build / clean / maintenance of public parks/ponds
  • Car-pool/Car-free day
  • Waste recycle / No plastic bag campaign
  • Setting up appropriate technology fares in the 3 days

Actions / Activities aimed at petitions and communications / popular education

Formal Statements

  • Public speech
  • Letters of opposition or support
  • Signed public declarations

Communication with wider audiences

  • Slogans, caricatures, and symbols / displays / caravans
  • Group or mass petitions
  • Banners, posters, and displayed communications
  • Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
  • Newspapers and journals
  • Records, radio, and television
  • Sky-writing and earth-writing
  • MDG quiz, debates, poster and essay competition
  • Issue based MDG flag march or rally
  • Web online / SMS actions
  • Filing Right to Information (RTI) letters and petitions

Actions / Activities aimed at mass action / popular mobilization/dissent

  • Public speech as part of mobilisation activity
  • Displays of flags and symbolic colours
  • Wearing of symbols – e.g. White bands
  • Prayer and worship
  • Delivering symbolic objects
  • Protest disrobing
  • Humorous skits and pranks
  • Performances of plays and music
  • Singing / Requieming
  • Public concerts
  • Marches
  • Parades
  • Religious processions
  • Teach-ins on MDGs
  • Deputations / Delegations to Government
  • Mock awards – Worst performed of MDGs
  • Group lobbying
  • Overloading of facilities by emails / faxes / letters
  • Sit-in to Stand Up
  • Stand-in to Take Action
  • Mill-in to Stand Up
  • Pray-in

Psychological Intervention

  • Self-exposure to the elements – Semi-nude actions
  • The Fast – Individuals / Groups / Mass / relay
  • The Fast of moral pressure to deliver on promises
  • Hunger strike to protest Government inactive on MDGs
  • Satyagrahic fast to assert truth

http://www.endpoverty2015.org/

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