Poverty● There are many meanings to poverty. It can be where the state or condition of

people having very little money or almost no money, goods. Poverty can also mean where people suffer of deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients or qualities.

● Right now there are many people that are living in poverty and these places are mostly located in poor countries such as afghanistan, niger and central africa and the people living there are most likely in poverty.

● The people living in central africa some of them whose income is below 75p - £1.50 a day which is very low and typically not even enough money to pay for basics like food, clean water, clothing and proper shelter which are needed to survive in reasonable health.

● Many of these people are also children some of them cannot even afford soap to wash their school uniform and cannot go to school which means they would not be able to complete their basic education.

● These people that have so low incomes also mean that they do not live in proper houses but in slums. Slums are a squalid or overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.Them living in slums results in their makeshift houses very vulnerable to the risk of fires, landslides and even evictions. Hence, they face the risk of injuries and deaths as well.

● People living in slums generally do not have access to safe drinking water and so they drink from sources such as polluted rivers and contaminated wells, with their water containing bacteria which can cause a widespread of diseases in the slums. Some examples of these diseases are cholera and dysentry. There might be also stagnant water in clogged drains which would provide breeding grounds for mosquitoes and lead to the spread of malaria and dengue fever.

( Picture 1) Picture 1 is an example of a slum.

( Picture 2)Picture 2 is an example of the children living in slums.

Solving poverty● Although we cannot completely stop poverty, there are already a lot of effort put

in by many people to try and solve poverty.● 1 way of how the people are trying to solve poverty is by including public

housing. Public housing is where the government provides housing units with basic services, usually for low-income households and other persons of need such as the elderly and disabled, public housing is also more reasonably priced compared to private housing, and can also be subsidised by the government so as to allow even more people to be able to afford to live in a proper house. An example of a country that practices public housing is Singapore.The housing development board(HDB) was set up in Singapore in 1960 to build and provide public housing for Singapore’s increasing population.

● Another way of solving poverty can be where some cities do slum upgrading. This process is where cities try to improve conditions in slum areas by improving the quality of housing and basic services such as water, electricity and sewerage. Slum upgrading is carried out in many ways, residents can be moving out of the slums and be relocated temporarily so the basic infrastructure of the slums can be built up. Financing schemes and assistance are also provided to fund the projects.

( Picture 3) Picture 3 shows a slum being upgraded for the people to live in with the basic amenities being provided.

(Picture 4) Picture 4 shows public housing in africa where flats are being built up for the people to live in for a lower price than private housing.