POVERTY IN

SPIRITUALITY FOR
SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATON
 What is happening to poverty?

What happens to inequality and

socio-economic social class?

What is happening to
unemployment?
PER CAPITA INCOME
Development of a country shows itself in
per capita income
POVERTY IS A BIG WORLD REALIY AND
DISEASE
Poverty, unemployment, lack of five
basic human needs are associated with
various ways per capita income

Inability to feed a nation or buy food is

lack of income level
DEVELOMENT THAT BRINGS SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATION IS MORE THAN
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Development works towards the eradication
of lack of five basic human needs:
Food, water, education, health care,
shelter

Eradicates poverty and hunger

TRANFORMATION IS A LONG TIME PROCESS
THAT BRINGS ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE
ABJECT POVERTY MEANS INABILITY TO FEED ONE SELF
ON A MEAL IN A DAY
PRIMACY OF FOOD AS ONE OF THE FIVE BASIC NEEDS IS
ESSENTIAL
To be able to buy food is in the area of income level

To be able to feed a nation is a sign of development

People need to have enough food

To be below level of nutrition a human person lacks

bodily energy and good health

Consequence of lack of food is weakness and lack of

capacity to concentrate

Poor nutrition in children results in mental retardation

which last in impairment of body and mind
UNEMPLOYMENT IS CRITICAL TO A
COUNTRYS DEVELOPMENT
Unemployed depends primarily on:
others and other peoples productive
capacity, charities, or beginning

Result: lack of respect especially one who

has had education and many years in
school in preparation for an active role in
society

Growing of unemployment is associated in

various ways in per capita income
 Unemployment in labor force is considered
to cause poverty in development;

income may grow worse in years to come

Unemployment results to large slums as a

result of rural urban movement;

congestion of cities and towns;

increased level of street begging and

street people
 Lack of housing therefore slum housing

No registration of births and deaths or

lack of data on rural-urban migration

For indicator for national income creation

of jobs and provision of employment
requires the creation of tools, skills and
table of competent performance.
It is difficult to measure unemployment in:
a non-industrial societies; Cities and
towns as well as in rural areas

It lacks statistics to show detailed sector:

by region
By sex
By education qualification

To reduce unemployment is to remove

main causes
REDUCING LEVEL OF UNEMPOLYMENT IS:
REDUCTION OF POVERTY
EQUAL DESTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES;
MAKING AVAILABLE RESOURCES AT ALL
LEVELS AND TO ALL PEOPLE

FOR EQUAL DISTRIBUTION DEMANDS

REDUCTION OF INEQUALITY
 ADDRESSING HIGH LEVEL OF
CORRUPTION

A MEANS OF FINDING TECHNIQUES

WHICH ARE LABOR INTENSIVE

EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION
APROPRIATE PLANNING IN COUNTRIES:
TO PRODUCE

CREATE EDUCATION FACILITIES

CREATE JOBS /EMPLOYMENT BY

EXPANSION OF MANUFUCTURIES
INDUSTRIES
 OPEN UP MORE SECTORS FOR JOB
CREATION

SOCIAL SERVICES

ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORTED SELF-

EMPLOYMENT

ESTABLISH DEVELOPMENT STARTEGIC

PLAN MAKING WITHOUT IGNORING THE
PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT
INEQUALITY
Can be considered as an object in its own
right the 3rd level of SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATION
Found in any country of the world: in
politics, church and by ethical standards

Cause social barriers, inhibitions of

unequal society

Distort the personalities of those with high

income no less than those who are poor.
 Trivial differences: caste system,
tribalism, racism; different of accents,
language, dress, customs, are inquired
important for those who lack social
classes especially if you belong to the
specific country where any of the named
inequality is dominant.

Economic inequality stands at the center

of SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Others include:
Inadequate educational levels

Lack or controlled and censored freedom of speech

Citizenship of a country which is independent - but

such a country does not determine its own
independence economically and politically; that is
the governments lack their own decision making
powers (e.g. South Sudan before its independence)

With inequality: political, education, and economy

dwindle

Circulation of wealth in the hands of the rich

minority
REDUCTION OF POVERTY
Draws a person or human beings slightly
just above an animal existence

Abject poverty dehumanizes the human

person

Poverty includes lack or minimal supply of

the five basic human needs: education,
health, food, housing and security and
water.
 Associated with decline of income

No real income and over spent or miss-

spent income leads to poverty

Bad government policies

Economic corruption hinders development,
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION and increase
poverty:
Country riddled with corruption becomes
unequal society and makes its population
poor, suffer and opening the door for them to
suffer

The few rich save their personal income in

overseas banks (Sesseko Mobutu)

The few rich put money in luxurious

investments, income generating projects while
the poor go hungry UNABLE TO PUT BREAD ON
THE TABLE FOR DAYS/WEEK/FOR SOME EVEN
MONTHS