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Home l Poverty l Disaster Relief l Animal Welfare l Environmental Destruction l Violence and Bullying Facts about Poverty Learn More About Poverty!! = **Poverty** = Poverty is the state of people, all across the world, who are poor, sometimes homeless, in bad living conditions, and lacking essentials of survival, like food, water, shelter, and space. It is a serious problem everywhere, especially in underdeveloped countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. Even so, world powers have this problem too. In America alone, 1 in 8 people are going hungry. It doesn't matter where you live or how nice of a community you live in-chances are, a person you know lives in poverty. [|This] website provides excellent information about poverty and its effects.

Each day, over 25,000 people all across the world die of hunger. It's not that there isn't enough food to go around-these people are too poor to buy food for themselves and their families. The lack of food makes them weak, therefore lessening their chance of a job to get food money. Eventually, they die.
 * Starvation/Dehydration**

Disease spreads very easily in the close, dirty quarters of people in poverty. There are respiratory diseases, like pneumonia and tuberculosis, diseases from mosquitoes (malaria and West Nile Virus), and illnesses from unclean, clustered conditions, like AIDS, cholera, and measles. Many of these conditions are serious in Africa.
 * Diseases**