Shouting for Humanity
PowerPoint 1
Shouting for Humanity
What do you see in
these pictures?
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Slide 1
An infant with
severe malnourishment?
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Slide 2
A beggar on the street?
A swarm of children
begging for spare
food?
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Slide 3
A homeless person
sleeping on the
street?
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Slide 4
A slum area?
A desperate, impoverished
family?
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Slide 5
A street child not knowing
about tomorrow?
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Slide 6
An orphan looking
after his siblings?
A prostitute?
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Slide 7
A child laborer?
A school absentee?
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Slide 8
Women and children
scavenging in a
mountain of rubbish?
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Slide 9
A horde of children and
women waiting for food,
water, medicine, shelter and
resource distribution?
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Questions for discussion
1. How are these people different from
the baby you expected in Activity 1?
2. What human rights are these people
deprived of?
3. Do we have these problems in Hong
Kong?
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The situation in HK
• About one fifth of the Hong Kong
population lives below the poverty line.
• (Less than $2500 per person per
month).
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The situation in HK
• Top 10 GDP
• BUT highest 20 for poverty gap
–Difference between rich and poor
–Comparable to Niger,Papua New
Guinea.
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Hong Kong
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The Elderly Poor
• Poverty rate: 32%
• Over 100,000 elderly workforce
• Over 10 hours a day collecting cardboard
boxes
– Longer than a school day!
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• All this for… $5 per day
– What can that buy?
• Elderly suicide rate: 25-30 in every 100,000