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The world is moving
A little hope
Poverty in the world would have been halved since the 90s according to figures from the World Bank, but this decline does not affect all countries in the same way .. Similarly, the recent food crisis due to soaring prices is devastating. The number of undernourished has increased. For years, many humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to fight poverty, more or less large scale.

The Millennium Development
A great action to eradicate poverty took shape in 2000 at the Millennium Summit Development. For the first time, all 189 UN Member States sign a major project to fight against global poverty: the Millennium Development Goals. (MDGs). These are eight major resolutions: to halve extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote the empowerment of women, reduce child mortality, improving maternal health, combat diseases, ensure environmental sustainability or create a global partnership for development ...
These goals aim for success in 2015, but can not be achieved without the assistance of all: "This is not the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals achieved. They should be in each country through the joint efforts of governments and peoples. " However, the assessment made mid-year 2007 is far from conclusive. The mobilization is still required: repeat once again that those who suffer from hunger are now one billion. It's more than yesterday and less than tomorrow ...

To combat extreme poverty, persevere and work together here, there ...

A true Gear
While most poor people can escape from this situation is because they find themselves trapped in a vicious circle. How to make money when you are illiterate, sick, the physical and moral forces are at their lowest?
What happen when the access to physical capital (land, land tenure, credit) and techniques (tools, machinery and agricultural extension) are almost non-existent? Not to mention the competition from imported products, sometimes subsidized, less expensive than local production and climatic conditions can have devastating for crops. The governments of developing countries are not (or very little) present to support their populations. Most poor people derive their livelihoods from agriculture, yet few governments are engaged in agriculture and rural development, a sufficient portion of their budgets, either by choice or by the impossibility. The consequences are tragic for the development of part of the economy of their country and it is here that international aid should intervene.

Many families do not have a home worthy of the name, but live in shelters made of odds and ends, without electricity, on land illegally occupied in the absence of administrative controls. In these circumstances many people find themselves isolated and excluded. They lack access to cultural and social activities and live no personal development. They are not integrated into the civic life of their community and have no impact on policy decisions taken for them.
Why such a disparity?
Historical, geographical, political, economic ... the causes are complex and multifaceted. Slavery, colonialism, wars, conquests, corruption, globalization, environmental degradation have been or are still factors of poverty. In a world where wealth is unevenly distributed (20% of the population owns 90% of wealth), developing countries struggle to repay their debts. Over the past 20 years, they have significantly increased. Refunds are now higher than the amount of the loans while the latter have mostly been raised to repay previous debts. The debt may also have been granted to corrupt leaders and today weigh on the budgets of states and population.

Health, education, unemployment, human ... Poverty affects many aspects of the life of an individual. Poverty is not only a lack of food but also lack of access to care, hygiene, education at all civic and human rights, including lack that engenders the social exclusion. For lack of information and medication, the health of people in development is disastrous. Today, 39 million people living with HIV / AIDS, not to mention other diseases affecting primarily children. Compounded by poor sanitary conditions, viruses priori benign consequences, such as diarrhea, threatening the lives of the weakest.
The poor health status reduces the working capacity of adults and causes frequent job losses. For children, it causes difficulties in learning and concentration at school, for those who attend one. For millions of children are not educated (two thirds are girls) and perhaps never will learn to read or write. It gives them an additional risk of being exploited and abused. Without access to education and training, difficult to find a job or manage a farm properly.

We are in 2010. While many of the rich increases, the technical prowess never cease to amaze, that billions are spent annually in medical research, millions of people worldwide still die of hunger, lack access to drinking water and dying from minor illnesses ... But solutions exist.
Extreme poverty is: "A sustained or chronic deprivation of resources, opportunities, choices, security and strength needed to enjoy an adequate standard of living and civil rights, cultural, economic, political and social. "And actually is: more than one billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nearly one billion people lack enough food to meet their daily needs, millions of children who are underweight, over one billion people lack access to clean water, many children under 5 who die every day from diseases that could have been avoided, more one child in ten who will not reach the age of 5 years in developing countries (DCs). These few figures are frightening, yet they are a reality and are even more revolting when you know it is possible to overcome poverty and hunger. Today it is possible to produce enough to feed the entire planet. Today, circulate enough wealth to lift developing countries out of poverty.

Hello Samuel!
A warm welcome to you from the Architects community!
So glad you are here, how did you find us? Its amazing how Architects is growing with
so many wonderful people joining. Please feel free to add more content, I would love to see more from you and Senegal.
-Rick