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**__Introduction:__**
The problem we have knower days is poverty, poverty is all over the world and you sometimes see that poverty has taken over in some countries they have left countries with starvation and no clean water to live; this also leaves the people living there homeless and no clean place to live or to take shelter. This can resolve into many diseases outbreaks and could kill a large portion of a village, Some people in some countries have no access to clean water therefore they have to resolve into drinking muddy water and unclean and unsafe water, when they drink this unhygienic water this will also leave into outbreaks of diseases and could kill a large portion of children and many of the adults and that if they do find some clean water they would have to walk for miles to get it and when they do get back their legs must be very saw and they must be very tired and that they should not cope like this and people should be doing the best they can to help these people out. Another thing is that children do not have a lot of food, they might have a little fruit or vegetables left over from their crops and some of which must of died out cause the plants must of had to water for it to grow therefore leaving it into very dry condition. Together we can put a stop to all of this, we need to help the countries that are suffering from poverty and help out the community build things like wells, and little houses for the people to live in, and if we all helped out by building things or donating money, the children will have an education and they will not have to travel very far for clean and safe water, it will be there when they need it.


 * __Absolute poverty:__**

Absolute poverty is measured by the number amount of people which are living under the certain amount of poverty for example, they go around the countries and see which countries need help and that they see some of the people that are living under the relevant amount of poverty.

__**Relative poverty**:__

Relative poverty measures the amount of households which are falling behind on their income which therefore means they need money and they need support to get through there money problems it also means when they go below the amount that they need and that how much food they actually need and they need amount to live on and not be rich or wealthy just enough to feed the family and to live on.

__**Four problems which are facing less economically developed countries are:**__

1. Many people will die of starvation and thirst because not enough water is around for everyone to drink, and there aren’t enough food going round because of the crops being destroyed by not being given water or that the sun is too hot it will just die.

2. There are a lot of outbursts of diseases and it’s very easy to catch a disease of someone because there aren’t anything people can give u like a jab to protect you and that if you do get it its very rare for you to find medicine which will cure it and that get a doctor to help you out, but the main thing is how they get the disease, they catch it from the unclean water they drink, cause if they cannot find any clean water there going to have to resolve into drinking any water around but it is not clean therefore when they drink it they catch the diseases, and that when they try to go to sleep they aren’t got a good protected house to sleep in and that many insects can get in and all different types of things can happen which will lead to them getting a disease.

3. In many less developed country’s children are not being able to go to school for many reasons but the 2 most reasons are is that, 1 they don’t have much qualified teachers around and they need a good environment to teach and good use of equipment to learn from, they need these things to lean some of the basic stuff, 2 some of the children don’t go school because they need to get a job some of them start working when they are 7+ over and that they have no time to go school b because they need to raise money and buy food to feed the family and that if they went to school someone else would have to find work and try to get money to feed the family, and some need to walk miles to get them to places to buy food or to get water, therefore leaving the children unable to read and to write because of the lack of education they are given and ONE key rule about this is that, each child has a right to learn!.

4. My last problem is that they have are the living conditions, they are not suitable for people to live in, sometimes it is small and very cramped and not a good places to live, not really good to get a lot of sleep cause they might feel uncomfortable and that if there is a new born baby it cannot put with that and if this was in England social services would of haven taken the baby away but still no help for the other countries out there and it is not a really good place to live and that many diseases could be cached from the wind and that they might be very cold which can leave to many fatal injuries.

__**Causes Of Poverty**__

Many different factors have been cited to explain why poverty occurs. However, there is no single explanation which can explain the causes of the poverty. At the international level some emphasise global systemic causes for example such as trade, aid and debt, the focus of the [|Make Poverty History] campaign, while others point to national level deficiencies of [|public administration] and [|financial management], the focus of the [|Good Government] agenda of the international financial institutions. At the national level, [|work ethic] and education level as the main cause of poverty, while others indicate inadequate social services and policies biased in favour of the wealthy and social elite, some of these maybe due to: 1. 1. Erosion: This leads to the crops that they are growing for them to eat or sell to make money and buy other things will be destroyed and when it is destroyed they will have no food to eat and nothing to sell, this would lead to the family living in poverty and some of the people dying of starvation. 2. [|2. Deforestation]: As exemplified by the widespread rural poverty in China that began in the early 20th century and is attributed to non-sustainable tree harvesting.3. 3. 3.  [|Drought] and [|water crisis].

__**What I Think About The Government Aid ?**__

I think that the government or presidents from other countries should give money to the least developed money because they aren’t going to spend it on something useful, England have a lot of money and the mayor is blowing it on things that are not even needed for example they just launched a campaigning to build this glass building, this aren’t going to help anyone plus it is going to cost millions of pounds or maybe billions when they can be helping the undeveloped countries in Africa, just help them build a well were so they can have nice clean water and maybe help them build a house which they can actually live in.

__**The Work Of Christian Aid And CAFOD.**__

They also campaign at a local and national level, and work to get media coverage for CAFOD’s work locally. **__Raising funds __** CAFOD supporters and volunteers raise funds through [|Fast Days] at Lent and Harvest, an Advent appeal and through long-term fundraising schemes such as [|Focus Africa]. Could you offer some of your time to promote CAFOD's work in your parish, school or diocese? Whether you have plenty of spare time, or only a little, we have something for you Money is also raised through legacies, emergency appeal donations and grants from the UK government and other bodies such as the European Union.
 * __Across England and Wales, CAFOD is a network of communities putting faith into action through fundraising, campaigning, and education __**
 * __How you can help __**

__**Poverty In The Uk**__
Poverty has been the centre of attention for some years. Money has been spent yet no positive outcomes have come out. Thousands of charities have tried to prevent this from growing but haven’t succeeded. · <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">The proportion of children living in poverty has **doubled** in the past generation. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 145%; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">The UK has **proportionally more** poor children than most rich countries. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 145%; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">In 1999, **the Prime Minister committed to ending child poverty** by 2020. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 145%; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">In 2005, **3.4 million** children were living in poverty. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 145%; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">700,000 children **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"> have been lifted out of poverty between 1998 and 2005. <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 145%; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">This is a **reduction of 17%**. The **target was 25%.**


 * __My Questions__**
 * 1) **__What will it take to end child poverty?__**
 * 1) **__What will policies to end child poverty cost?__**
 * 1) **__Will current policies eradiate child poverty by 2020?__**
 * 1) **__What will happen if we don’t end child poverty?__**

__**What The Bible Says About Caring For Others.**__
__**Matthew 18: 1-14 Into Thy Word Ministries**__ The Call for Caring. While the disciples were acting like children, Jesus used the opportunity to call us to take care of the children! Children are dependent on us for the quality of life and substance we provide.

__****1 Timothy 5:4****__ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by **caring** for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.

__**What The Bible Said About Poverty And Wealth**__

Here are bits of what it says about what the bible believes about the poverty and wealth, and it shows how people are living and to see if they should carry on living like this.

An Extract From http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/poverty.html, this tells us about A Biblical View of Wealth: "First, wealth itself is not condemned. For example, we read in Genesis 13:2 that Abraham had great wealth. In Job 42:10 we see that God once again blessed Job with material possessions. In Deuteronomy, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes, wealth is seen as evidence of God's blessing (Deut. 8; 28; Prov. 22:2; Eccles. 5:19). But even though wealth might be an evidence of God's blessing, believers are not to trust in it. Proverbs, Jeremiah, 1 Timothy, and James all teach that the believer should not trust in wealth but in God (Prov. 11:4; 11:28; Jer. 9:23; 1 Tim. 6:17; James 1:11; 5:2). Second, when wealthy people in the Bible were condemned, they were condemned for the means by which their riches were obtained, not for the riches themselves. The Old Testament prophet Amos railed against the injustice of obtaining wealth through oppression or fraud (4:11; 5:11). Micah spoke out against the unjust scales and light weights with which Israel defrauded the poor (6:1). Neither Amos nor Micah condemned wealth //per se//; they only denounced the unjust means by which it is sometimes achieved.

This is what it says about the poverty, and the view of the bible:

__A Biblical View of Poverty:__ The Bible classifies the causes of poverty into four different categories. The first cause of poverty is oppression and fraud. In the Old Testament (e.g., Prov. 14:31; 22:7; 28:15) we find that many people were poor because they were oppressed by individuals or governments. Many times, governments established unjust laws or debased the currency, measures that resulted in the exploitation of individuals. The second cause of poverty is misfortune, persecution, or judgment. In the book of Job we learn that God allowed Satan to test Job by bringing misfortune upon him (1:12-19). Elsewhere in the Old Testament (e.g., Ps. 109:16; Isa. 47:9; Lam. 5:3) we read of misfortune or of God's judgment on a disobedient people. When Israel turned from God's laws, God allowed foreign nations to take them into captivity as a judgment for their disobedience. The third cause of poverty is laziness, neglect, or gluttony. Proverbs teaches that some people are poor because of improper habits and apathy (10:4; 13:4; 19:15; 20:13; 23:21). The final cause of poverty is the culture of poverty. Proverbs 10:15 says, "The ruin of the poor is their poverty." Poverty breeds poverty, and the cycle is not easily broken. People who grow up in an impoverished culture usually lack the nutrition and the education that would enable them to be successful in the future.