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Grades 9-12

Combating Global Poverty

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SUBJECTS: Social Studies

TOPICS: Economics, Family Size Decisions, Food & Hunger, Resource Distribution, United Nations, Wealth & Poverty

Resource Overview

Poverty background reading: More than one billion people around the world live in poverty and lack adequate sanitation, healthcare and education. Learn how breaking this cycle of poverty would benefit the entire global family.

Children living in the Kibera slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

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This reading must be purchased as part of a lesson packet or as part of a full curriculum that is available in our store.

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