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REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE! → https://bit.ly/2CwckC3 This is a must-see documentary about Katrina Gilbert, a working mother on the edge of poverty struggling to raise three children. The film touches on vital national issues like wages, health care, education, and food adequacy. A nurse's assistant in a nursing home, she cares for frail elderly ...

A group of women from Leeds share stories of poverty through eight everyday objects and the community initiatives they’ve launched to fight the shame that surrounds it, in a bid to start a dialogue with policymakers. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by ...

Laina Raveendran Greene has witnessed a paradox - she has seen the oppression of poverty and cultural assumptions on women, yet at the same time, she maintains the optimism that women can be the ones to effect change and get themselves out of destitution. Laina is the Co-founder at Angels of Impact, an impact network focused on women social ...

If poverty had a face, it would be that of a rural woman, says Cornelia Richter, the new Vice-President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). She highlighted the importance of investing in rural women and girls, as well as efforts underway to help realize their potential. More at UN News: https://news.un.org/en/story ...

Menstruation is one of the most taboo topics in the world, and for millions of American women, there's a high price to pay for that stigma. This CBS Reports documentary looks at how some women are trying to change that.

What is poverty? Poverty is more than simply not having money. Poverty is a battle that has mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges. Understanding this gets you at the core of Compassion's holistic child development program. It’s not just about sending a child to school, it’s about teaching them to identify their goals ...

Tamara Magwashu grew up using old rags when she was on her periods due to poverty, she grew up in a shanty town in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa and was bullied severely. She has now created her own business, delivering free pads to hundreds of schools in the country to ensure no girl goes through what she did. Tamara has been ...

How poverty can affect health

What is poverty? Poverty refers to a lack of the necessities of life—food, shelter and clothing. In reality, poverty is more complex than this and includes other factors such as access to clean water, education and health care. Learn more about the complexities of poverty and how you can support combating it: https://www.worldvision.ca ...

Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Approximately 700 million people worldwide currently live in extreme poverty, a state of severe financial and social vulnerability that robs many of hope and dignity. BRAC, the world's largest NGO, began a ...

There are 405,000 older women at risk of homelessness in Australia. These are stories of four of them. Vanessa, Jo, Robyn and Lynette tell their stories in this powerful video. Take action or find support at www.oldertenants.org.au

In this powerful documentary, we delve into the profound impact of poverty on individuals, families, and communities. Through compelling narratives and eye-opening interviews, we shed light on the hidden costs of poverty and the cycle of disadvantage it perpetuates. Join us as we explore the economic, social, and psychological effects of ...

About one in five of the Philippines's 106 million people live in extreme poverty, getting by on less than two dollars a day. Many, including children, work long hours as street vendors or labourers to make enough to feed themselves. Hunger occurs the most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where 70 percent of workers are poor. Al Jazeera's ...

To strive for a world in which all regions, countries, households, and people experience the benefits of poverty reduction, we need to piece together the poverty puzzle to understand its full impacts. Learn more: www.worldbank.org/psp

43 million people in the United States now live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. 1.5 million children are homeless and growing up poor, three times more than during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Working adults live out of their cars. Entire families are tossed from one place to another to work unstable jobs ...

In America almost 40m people—one eighth of its population—live in poverty. Why does the richest big country in the world still have so many people living in profound need? Find out more here: https://econ.st/2ofmd33 Click here to subscribe to The Economist on YouTube: https://econ.st/2xvTKdy For more from Economist Films visit: http://films ...

37.9 million Americans are currently living in poverty, accounting for 11.6% of the total population. That’s despite the fact that America ranks first as the richest nation in the world in terms of GDP. Poverty in the U.S. is not only a humanitarian crisis but an economic one as well. About 11% of the federal budget, or $665 billion goes to ...

Find answers to questions about global poverty, including poverty facts and statistics. Discover the progress toward ending extreme poverty.

A third of Cape Town's 3.7 million people now live in slums, with limited access to basic services, such as water, electricity and toilets. But whilst some are being 'upgraded', many are languishing in squalor. Subscribe to Journeyman: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures Similar stories: South Africa's Post ...

http://www.worldbank.org/poverty - Do you wonder how we measure poverty? Do you know how we do it, but have a hard time putting it into simple words? This 3 minute video explains the methodology that we used, how it works and why it is important. Go ahead! Use and share this video! And come to our website to learn more about poverty and equity!

What does poverty in Canada look like and what can be done about it? Scott MacAfee, chair, National Advisory Council on Poverty Subscribe to BNN Bloomberg to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/BNNBloomberg Connect with BNN Bloomberg: For the latest news visit: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca For a full video offering visit BNN Bloomberg ...

Many people believe that poverty and inequality (economic inequality, income inequality and so on) are the same thing but... well, they're not. As explained in this video, poverty and economic inequality sometimes paint a remarkably different picture of reality. In other words, as the definitions as well as explanations you'll come across in ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is just one of many prominent politicians born in the province of Eastern Cape. Still, it is one of the poorest parts of the country. It has been 30 years since the end of apartheid, and many families are still waiting for the conditions to improve. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Mlungisi ...

What is poverty? In this video we explain what poverty is and how you can help reduce the poverty rates around the world starting with one child at a time. Child poverty is an issue with a scope so widespread that many don't realize just how much work is needed. Poverty involves more than a lack of money, it's an incredibly difficult battle ...

Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe The elderly will soon make up a third of the population in more than 60 countries, according to the UN. But even in wealthy nations like the United States, many seniors do not get the care they need, where one in seven seniors are living in poverty. Al Jazeera's Gallacher reports from Florida.

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Poverty - Types and Causes. A video covering the types and causes of poverty Twitter: https://twitter.com/econplusdal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EconplusDal-1651992015061685/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

From Ecuador and Cambodia to Ethiopia, poverty manifests itself in various forms, impacting communities worldwide. The Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets to be achieved by 2015, including reducing waste, ensuring access to clean water, and providing education for all children. While progress has been made in certain areas ...

The World Bank’s International Development Association, or IDA, works to reduce poverty and create a more level playing field. Closing gaps between women and men is essential to reducing poverty and charting a better future for all. IDA is uniquely suited to support gender equality outcomes, which require integrating work across multiple ...

When we ask who is poor in the United States, the answer depends on how we measure poverty. This video explains two measures of poverty used by the U.S. Census Bureau and how the differences between the measures matter.

Reading, Pa. was recently named the poorest city in America, according to recent census figures. Forty-one percent of the city's residents live below the poverty line.

There is a common misconception that poverty is equal to laziness or unemployment, but poverty is a very complex issue. Poverty isn't just an economic issue, but rather a reinforced cycle of lack of income and the basic capabilities to live with dignity. In this video you will learn from the United Nations the 7 points of poverty and how you ...

Extreme poverty goes far beyond a lack of income. This is because poverty is multidimensional. Health, education, clean water and sanitation, electricity, housing, social inclusion are all crucial indicators which determine standards of living and future prospects of an individual and their household. We cannot eradicate these challenges by ...

Women are subject to fall into poverty because of widowhood, caring for others and declining health.

Thousands of women in the UK cannot afford to buy sanitary products. Research by the charity Plan International suggests that one in 10 girls and women - aged between 14 and 21 - in the UK has been affected at some point. A Scottish government pilot project is providing towels and tampons to those who need them through an Aberdeen food bank ...

A higher proportion of young people today live in relative poverty than ever before, and for women in particular, the problem is getting worse. But, Cosmopolitan asks, would you recognise it if it was staring you in the face? Meet 26-year-old Catherine, who has lived in poverty for most of her adult life. Still haven’t subscribed to Cosmo UK ...

More than 38 million Americans live in poverty— one in every five for Black people. That number is higher than Latinos, Asian Americans, and more than double the rate of white Americans. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative ...

On this edition of MetroFocus, PBS NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports on the growing problem of poverty in America's suburbs. On the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty," Thompson takes us to Suffolk County, Long Island to meet Leigh Scozzari, a mother of two, living below the poverty line ...

http://www.fao.org/about/what-we-do/so3/en/ Seventy-five percent of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas. The agricultural sector, therefore has a key role to play in poverty reduction and improving rural lives. Maya Takagi, Deputy Leader of the FAO Strategic Programme on Rural Poverty Reduction, together with Ana Paula De La O ...

United Nations - Traditionally, Rwandan women like Epiphanie Mukamurenzi would be confined to domestic chores, with her husband in charge of anything concerned with household income. Now the Rwandan Government- with support from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - is empowering women like Epiphanie to be equally ...

At this turbulent time, we’re finding out just how much we all rely on each other in our society, and these difficult circumstances have awakened our compassion. We need to make sure there is compassion, justice and action for each and every one of us when we face hard times. Around one in five of us were already in poverty before the ...

What is the picture of poverty in the UK at the start of 2022, coming up to two years after a global pandemic struck? How far has the pandemic changed the reality of those at risk of poverty? Who has been well supported and now has better prospects? Who is facing deep and persistent poverty? Although we don’t yet have official poverty data ...

All his life Bernard has lived in one of Africa's biggest slums. When he turned 17 he had to leave his home due to overcrowding in his family. Many children, often younger than Bernard, face the same issue. To protect themselves on the streets and to avoid loneliness the children and teenagers form gangs. Subscribe to see more full ...

Afghanistan has spiraled into near-universal poverty since the Taliban took over. Under international sanctions, the price of basic goods has surged, drought is worsening food insecurity and some have resorted to selling their organs. WSJ’s Margherita Stancati reports. Video/Photo: Paula Bronstein for WSJ More from the Wall Street Journal ...

Life for women in Kenya can be hard. For women living in one of the largest slums in the world, life can be devastating. With remarkable access to the inner areas of the Kibera slum in Nairobi, this film introduces just a few of the thousands of women, whose daily lives are blighted by poverty and serious human rights violations.

Optimism NZ is working with NGO - Flame Cambodia - to help the women in Cambodia’s slums to start and grow their own small (micro) businesses - so that they can feed their families and their communities sustainably. Slums are a way of life for a lot of Cambodians, and small makeshift villages pop up by rivers, dumps, rural parts of outlying ...

The levels of poverty in rural areas in Zambia tend to be very high. However, the Zambia Demographic Health Survey of 2013/14 reveals declining levels of poverty the higher the education level attained by the head of the household. At 0.4 Zambia’s Human Capital Index (HCI) score lags behind other countries in the same income group, suggesting ...

Poverty in the USA: A Chronicle | ENDEVR Documentary Half Homeless - Living in Cars: https://youtu.be/foOgch5mrqQ 'Poverty in the USA: A Chronicle' delves into the multifaceted and evolving landscape of poverty in the United States. The documentary showcases three pivotal documentaries produced in 2019, 2020, and 2023, offering a compelling ...