Folio 2: Alleviating Poverty (global)
Topic Group 3: Global Issues - People and Power
What assessment task are we working towards?
Hypothetically, the school has raised $1,000 to donate to a non-government organisation (NGO) that is helping to reduce child poverty in Cambodia.
The school's aim is to help achieve Millennium Development Goal 1: To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The thing is, there are over 2,000 NGOs in Cambodia. What do YOU recommend as the most effective way to donate the $1,000? Your recommendations will be published as a page on a class website. |
Millennium Development GoalsEight goals were agreed upon by the United Nations in the year 2000 (the start of the new millennium) and the first was to ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER. There were a variety of targets set for the international community to achieve by 2015. The UN is now leading work to decide what the targets will be from 2015 onwards.
Relative and Absolute PovertyWe started our course by looking at local poverty and now we will move to a global perspective.
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Check out the global rich list to compare Australia with global income levels:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/ |