Poverty and its effects.
                     POVERTY AND 
ITS EFFECTS
Introduction
• Poverty stretches across the globe 
affecting almost half of the world’s 
population. Its effects reach deeper. 
Uniquely connected to different causes, 
the effects of poverty are revolving—one 
result leads to another source leads to 
another consequence. 
Source: borgenproject.org
Effects of poverty on 
health
• Without effective sanitation in their home, 
children are especially vulnerable to life-
threatening diarrhea and intestinal 
infections. 
• And in houses where there’s insufficient 
ventilation, people are especially 
vulnerable to respiratory diseases.
Source: www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk
 Effects of poverty on 
education and 
schooling
• Home gives children opportunity for the 
future by providing a stable foundation 
where they can study and do as well as 
they can at school.
• Children are also able to develop into 
responsible adults as they experience 
security and see their own parents taking 
care of the home.
Source: www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk
Effects of poverty on 
children and families
• When families have a home where they 
feel safe and secure they will draw 
together as a family unit to love and 
support one another. 
• There is also an added sense of pride 
and dignity that comes with a decent 
home which translates to a hopefulness 
for the future well being and success of 
the family.
Source: www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk
Crime
• There’s an old adage that says, “If a man 
don’t work, he don’t eat.” That’s not the 
case for a large number people living in 
poverty. Lack of economic opportunity 
leads to impoverishment which then leads 
to crime.
Source: borgenproject.org
Homelessness
• Poor people are usually homeless. They 
sleep on the roadsides at night. This 
makes the entire scenario very unsafe for 
women and children.
Source: fairgaze.com
Stress
• Due to lack of money, poor people suffer 
from a lot of stress which leads to are 
duction in the productivity of individuals, 
thereby making poor people poorer.
Source: fairgaze.com
Child labor
• Poverty forces poor people to send their 
children to work instead of sending them 
to schools. This is because the families 
fail to bear the burden of their child/ 
children. Among the poor families, 
children start earning at an average age 
of 5 years only.
Source: fairgaze.com
Effect on Economy
• Poverty is directly proportional to the 
success of the economy. The number of 
people living in the poverty is reflective of 
how powerful is the economy.
Source: fairgaze.com
Effects on society as a 
whole
• In the end, poverty is a major cause of 
social tensions and threatens to divide a 
nation because of the issue of 
inequalities, in particular income 
inequality. This happens when wealth in a 
country is poorly distributed among its 
citizens. In other words, when a tiny 
minority has all the money.
Source: www.restlessstories.com