Other Useful And Helpful Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty

http://www.poverty.com/

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336992,00.html

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Here is a website that just might give you some amazing ideas that will help you to do things like fundraisers, start a club, see other projects and more.
http://www.dosomething.org/whatsyourthing
This link is in the same website, but it takes you straight to the poverty section. There are also some subcategories under poverty like Millennium Development Goals, hunger, homelessness, and more.
http://www.dosomething.org/whatsyourthing/Poverty

Some things to keep in mind

Elements of a good problem:

• people can relate to it
• solving it can benefit the majority
• it can realistic be solved under the current circumstances

Elements of a good solution:

• it is very valuable to have different solutions to a problem to choose from
• multiple benefits can result from your solution
• it is realistic to carry out
• it is original and creative
• it makes sense
• it has more pros than cons

Good elements of a good action plan

• it is flexible
• it is organized
• understandable
• specific
• visuals/diagrams are used to explain things
• addresses,WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, and HOW.

Organizations that help poverty:

http://www.lambifund.org/?gclid=CMuMmLax1KgCFRpVgwodmGKxAA

A Little about this...

So right now you might be looking through this blog spot wondering what it is for right? The reason why we made this blog spot was to create an electronic learning service guide for people in our school, and comunity. This project was started in a course called ITF(Inventing the Future) and our challenge was to create a service learning guide that will provide students, and possibly other poeople around the world, to be successful in projects that include the topic of poverty. Here, we will provide you with tools that will help you make a change such as organizations, websites, videos, and people who you can talk to. surely this will help you come up with unique ideas on how to solve the global  issues of poverty. Most importantly, this guide will help you to not only find ways to make a change, but also be succesfull with your plan of action, and implementation.

What is Poverty?

Poverty is the lack of basic human needs that are needed in an every day bases such as, clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter for the reason that they are not able to afford them. There is relative poverty as well which is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within the society or country, compared to worldwide averages.