Courtney Braman| HON401-Honors Component| Fall 2016

How poverty affects child development around the world.

Table of Contents• Component Summary• Thesis• Inspiration for Component • The World of Poverty• Child Development and Poverty• Exploring Poverty Around The World• USA Poverty• History of Poverty• Steps To Making A Change• What’s Next?• Conclusion

• In this component I will show students the importance of understanding the effects that poverty has on child development.

• Our children’s health will have a direct affect on future generations around the world and we need to be more informed about our surroundings as a community.

• By sharing statistics, history, and findings I hope to inform students to help them take the step to support poverty and want to make a change in the world.

• It is important that this component connects different parts of the world, while also analyzing what many of us overlook; The United States of America is suffering from poverty.

Component Summary

• This component is proof that by informing students about the effects that poverty has on child development, we can come together as a community to become more informed

and make a change.

Thesis

Inspiration: Care.org

“CARE cuts poverty off at its roots. We provide tools for sustainable change to the people most vulnerable to hunger, violence and disease.”

“CARE works in 90 countries around the world to support over 880 poverty-fighting development and emergency projects.”

The World of Poverty

• 7 billion people on earth• 2.2 billion children• 1.1 billion live in poverty• 1 out of every 2 children live in poverty today• In developing countries 50% of women lack

proper maternal care and there are 300,000 deaths annually from childbirth.

• Each day, 22,000 children die to conditions of poverty.

• 1 of 6 infants are born at low birth weight in developing countries.

Where is poverty the worst?• Asia at 525.6 million • Sub-Saharan Africa at 214 million• Latin America and the Caribbean at 37 million

USA Poverty-The Statistics

• In the 1980’s we had a total of 200 food banks, now we have nearly 40,000.

• In 2014, 15% (47 mil.) of our population in the United States were living in poverty.• That is a 2.3 % increase from 2007, which was a year prior to the 2008

recession • In 2015, the weighted average poverty threshold, also known as

the poverty line, for a family of three was $18,871 per a year. • 15% of US population is considered “poor.”• 16.1 million (22%) of American children lived in poverty in 2013.• 3 million more than during 2008 recession.

USA Poverty-The Problem

• Ashamed of acknowledging/Government denial• Too many expectations• Food Desserts still exist (Max. deliver, Min. cost)• No room for delivering to small towns• Without transportation- No access to healthy foods• With transportation- Gas costs & overall cost to get to a grocery store

• End Hunger Network• Film made in 1983, still resembles hunger and poverty today. Today is actually worse.

• School lunch costs• Have $2.68 per student for lunch before labor costs• After labor cost, less than $1 left per student for lunch• Hasn’t changed since 1973

USA Poverty-The History

• Farm Policy• Started in 1930’s with the Great Depression• Hit farmers first, so government assisted by

increasing the price of crops and then “letting the market take over”

• Never let the market take over• Business farms profit, not family farms

• 1980: Obesity Epidemic Began

Exploring Poverty Around The World

• Japan• Haiti• India• Democratic Republic of the Congo• Chad• Brazil• Peru

Japan • Poverty in Japan is hidden due to leading to

public shame and discrimination.• More than 1.23 million single mother

households.• Single mothers make on average 150,000 yen

per a month($1,490).• Mothers get limited support from welfare programs in

place.• Japan is one of the world's richest countries.• 1of 6 children are currently living in poverty.• Country’s child poverty rate is 16.3%.

Japan (Cont.)

• Study of how homelessness correlated to suicide.• Face-to-face survey method, 423 subjects• Both street and sheltered homeless

• Results: • Wish to die, 51 subjects (12.2 % of valid

responses)• Frequent thought of suicide, 29 (6.9 %) • Made plans, 22 (5.3 %) In addition• Attempted in past 2 weeks, 11 (2.9%) • Ever attempted, 74 (17.7 %)

• These are people’s CHILDREN.

Haiti

• 50% of children don’t attend school.

• Under five mortality rate is 88 lives out of 1,000 births.

• Out of every 1,000 birthday, 59 will die before their 1st birthday.

India• Mumbai is capital city in Maharashtra, India.• 22 million people live in Mumbai, over 70%

of them reside in slums.• About 98,000 people die each year from

diarrhea.• Highest rate of child marriage in the world.• One of every three girls become child brides.•  Many girls marry at an early age, which

then become servants or prostitutes in order to survive.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Africa’s second largest country.• Less than 20% of African women have

access to education.• African women with no little to no

education are twice as likely to contract AIDS and 50% less likely to immunize their children.

• Children with a minimum of five years of education have a 40% higher chance of survival.

Chad

• One of the poorest countries in the world.

• Challenges are poor access to medical service, epidemics, conflict and refugee crisis from neighboring countries.• More than 500,000 refugees.

• Every 1 of 6 children die before age 5 due to malnutrition and preventable diseases.

Brazil

• Largest country in South America with population of 201,009,622.

• 21.4% of population below poverty line.• 10 million people live below

international poverty line• 50% are children

Peru

• Nearly 40% of children and adolescents live in poverty.

• Many child drop out of school to support family.• 33% of children age 6-14 have jobs;

many in dangerous mining and construction.

• More than 18% of children under 5 are chronically malnourished

• Over 37% of children under 5 have anemia.

Why does this matter?

• Within the first 3 years of life; 80-85 % of child's brain is developed.• Synapses, which are connections between neurons and the brain are forming

more rapidly than this will for rest of life.• Synapses are essential for the ability to learn.

• Highest ability to mold brain in first 3 years of life.• The number of words a child knows a 3, will directly correlate to how well they

do in 3rd grade.• Poverty creates stress for children, stress in children affects chemistry of their

brain, which leads to decreased growth.• Parents work so much that children don’t see them. Children need attachments

to parental figures.• Children need to learn to express themselves and need structure.

Steps To Making A Change

• Fight for change in the government and an increased funding for people in need of assistance.

• Currently, legislatures only care about corporate health to make profits, not public health. Legislative needs to change.

Work Cited:• https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/

pdf/SR199/SR199.eng.pdf• https://haitipartners.org/about-

us/haiti-statistics/• http://www.gabrielprojectmum

bai.org/Poverty_in_India.html• http://borgenproject.org/10-

facts-poverty-india/• https://blogs.unicef.org.uk/201

5/07/01/five-things-didnt-know-poverty-hunger-chad/

• https://www.childfund.org/Brazil/

• http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/LACEXT/0,,contentMDK:21896642~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258554,00.html

• http://data.unicef.org/country/HTI/

• Okamura, T., Ito, K., Morikawa, S., & Awata, S. (2014). Suicidal behavior among homeless people in Japan. Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49(4), 573-582. doi:10.1007/s00127-013-0791-y

• http://borgenproject.org/10-quick-facts-about-poverty-in-africa/

• http://www.thp.org/knowledge-center/know-your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/childrens-cafeterias-combat-poverty-neglect-in-japan/2016/09/19/b0a244f0-7e20-11e6-ad0e-ab0d12c779b1_story.html

• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-01/japan-high-child-poverty-rate-driven-by-single-parent-families/6272428

• http://borgenproject.org/problem-poverty-tokyo/• https://www.worldvision.org/our-impact/country-

profiles/peru

Photos Cited:• https://timjohnpurkiss.wordpress.co

m/2016/08/30/why-im-fundraising-for-send-a-cow/

• http://www.richestlifestyle.com/poorest-countries-in-asia/

• http://www.borgenmagazine.com/child-labor-today/

• http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/01/foodscaping-a-beautiful-solution-to-food-deserts.html

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-piraino/violence-against-women-act_b_1459207.html

• https://blogs.unicef.org.uk/2015/07/01/five-things-didnt-know-poverty-hunger-chad/

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peoplearenotforsale.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/do-not-give-upge-inte-upp/

• https://creationsciencestudy.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/god-hates-haiti/

• http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/11/world/science-health-world/child-poverty-impacts-brain-development#.WBYM7NydWCQ

• http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/life/poverty-japan-approaches-one-six-158714/

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• https://www.thinglink.com/scene/510154828236718081

• http://www.ibtimes.com/what-might-be-stopping-latin-americas-economic-development-1557945

• http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/u1029838/docs/latinamerica.html