Wealth: The Widening Gap and Future Possibilities

This week's focus was looking specifically at how globalisation and poverty are linked. The inevitability of global progression or development in the world we live in means that some countries economically thrive and others tend to fall by the wayside.


Last session we looked the Grameen Bank Project and how this organisation works to reduce poverty in Bangladesh. The concepts of micro-finance, empowerment and creativity all combined to make a considerable change to the economical situation in this country.


The first section of this blog task involves you investigating an organisation that aims to overcome poverty.


You will need to include the following 

• the name and location of the organisation
• the main work done by the organisation
• examples of programs to reduce poverty

Some examples include:

• http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/
• http://www.careaustralia.org.au/
• http://solvepoverty.com/

The next section of the task involves you heading to the United Nations website and look at the stated Millenium Goals located on the right hand side bar:

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Study each of the eight goals and rank them in your order of priority. You need to discuss what each goal aims to achieve and justify your ranking.

Also you need to use the website to find out what progress has been made by some of the developed countries. The big question that you need to discuss is what has Australia achieved over the last 10 years to address global poverty?

Your post needs to be at least 500 words and include all of the activities and observations to the questions outlined.

This post is due to be posted up on your blog by Thursday 17th March