Speaches

=Poverty= ==Over half of the worlds population is living in the streets, in disease, in poverty.26 to 30 thousand children die each day due to poverty,15 million have been orphaned due to H.I.V./aids, 6 thousand children die each day because of disease infested drinking water and nearly one billion people entered the twenty first century not being able to read or sign there name, all this is just the start of poverty.==

==infectious diseases keep on taking the lives of humans but when you're living in poverty you've become more open to disease. One of the more common diseases is Maleria, Maleria is a disease that is spread by mosquitoes it infects the cells of humans and kills many. In fact every year there are 350 to 500 caces in Africa alone. The other quite common disease is HIV, HIV is a disease that infects your blood cells and immune system, it is very contagious, if you get HIV you're stuck with it for the rest of your life.==

==some of the countries and continents that are effected by poverty are America, Asia, North and South Africa, Canada, Russia, Europe and Afganistan. Did you know that in Africa one in five children die before the age of five and three hundred Africans don't have access to clean and safe water. What organises are there to help people out of poverty? Well theres World Vision, Unicef, save the children, child fund and lots more. World vision helps more with children than with adults but are widley spread over the world. Unicef is also working more with children but they don't just help with poverty they help with violence, natural disasters, aids, health, edeucation and lots more.==

==Every year American Idol has a night where they raise money for poverty its called idol gives back. they invite famous singers onto the show they sing then people call and donate. last year they raised seventy six million dollars but this year they raised lots more.==

==Did you know that every five seconds a child dies because he or she was hungry, in 2005 about seventy two million children of primary school thats our age and younger were not in school 57% of them were girls and the other 43% of them were boys, and half of the world thats nearly three billion people live on less than two dollars a day.==

==Poverty in New Zealand hasn't been a problem in the past but is becoming something because on third of New Zealand's children are now living in poverty so think about how lucky you are not to be one of them.== =Poverty is like a punishment for a crime you didn't commit!=