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The End of Global Poverty

Team 8

Ariana Rizzo, Kaleigh Yurko, Angela Zajmi, Ava Toscano

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Nigeria has a population of 215 million people

83 million people in Nigeria are living in poverty

They have a 9% unemployment rate

41.8 million people in Nigeria are illiterate

On day 1, we met with Team 1 to discuss their findings and heard about facts and details of their country

We then heard from the other teams briefly as they explained facts and contributing factors to poverty in their regions

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Problem Statement:
Many children in Nigeria are not receiving an education because families are sending their children to work instead of school to help with the family income.

Solutions:
>Make public school more accessible
>Allow children to be able to work and go to school at the same time
>Not allowing children to work unless they are currently in school.

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How to make primary school more accessible:

Make primary school free and mandatory for all kids, as it currently is not, so every child can be provided with a good education and have a brighter future.

Make higher paying jobs harder to get without a degree or diploma in order to promote the desire to work towards jobs that require it.

Start campaigns to fund the schools. We need to do all we can to make sure kids are provided with the right educational environment.

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Problem Statement Re-Defined:

There is a serious lack of education in Nigeria.
Ideally, every child would have the privilege to an education, but in reality most children are forced to work to help the family financial situation.
Because of this, the future generations will be uneducated, meaning there will be very few people qualified for high position jobs.
Therefore, it is not just basic education such as mathematics and grammar that Nigerians are lacking but sex education as well.

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-The 3 largest ethnic groups are Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba
-In these groups, a patriarchal society is present where women are viewed as second class citizens.
-Why is this important in terms of Poverty?

Women are blamed for the problems in the country such as the HIV rate being so high.

This issue can not be resolved until the cultural viewings of gender are abolished which is unlikely.

Therefore, having a spokesperson that understands Nigerian culture for organizations willing to help lower the STD rate would be very beneficial.

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Alternative #1:                       Education System in Nigeria

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Alternative #1:                       Education System in Nigeria

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In Nigeria there is a serious lack of a good education system, with an illiteracy rate of 62%, which negatively impacts the poverty rate and the high HIV and AIDS rates.

The lack of a good education system brings a lack of sex education which prevents the population of Nigeria to better understand the risks of these diseases.

How can we help improve this situation?

Make schools free and mandatory for all kids. With the help of nonprofit organizations we can raise money and invest them into the education system.

Implement Sex Education in schools. This way the future generations will gain a better knowledge of this issue and in the long run be able to decrease the HIV and AIDS rates in Nigeria.

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Quality health care is very hard to come by in Nigeria.  Many Nigerians do not even have health insurance, and the poorest citizens have very limited access to health care.
If health care was more accessible, the death rate of HIV and AIDS would likely drop tremendously.  These people would able to get treatments, and live a longer, more fulfilled life if there was an easier access to healthcare.

How can we help improve this situation?

Implement a universal healthcare system so that all demographics of people could get access to essential medical treatment

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Problem Statement:

With the second highest HIV and AIDS rate in the world, Nigeria does not have access to treatment centers and with a lack of sex education the numbers are on the rise. As of 2018, 1.9 million Nigerians are living with HIV and with laws against homosexuality, it makes it even more difficult to prevent it.

Prototype:

Contraceptives such as condoms and birth control would be readily available through nonprofit organizations where donation could take place.

Why would this lower the HIV rate?

Condoms are 90- 95% effective in reducing transmission.

How would lowering the HIV rate help with the poverty issue?

With the lack of a healthcare system, those with HIV and AIDS can not receive the treatment necessary to participate in day to day life such as employment and seeking further education, if any education at all.

Test:
1. Teach the importance of safe sex in schools and what can result from not doing so.
(Ex: STDs, Pregnancy)
2. Through charitable organizations, contraceptives can be donated to Nigeria.
3. Through other aid, one could development clinics in major cities to ensure safety from HIV and judgement.

4. Create more Planned Parenthood’s in Nigeria through the foundation that already exists.

5. Start small; go to each city and interact with the citizens directly!

In other words;

- EDUCATE
- PROVIDE FUNDS
- CREATE MORE CLINICS
- CREATE MORE CONVERSATION

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The organization we chose to partner with to bring our ideas to life is the “ International Planned Parenthood Federation” or “IPPF”.

• IPPF commits through the HAND to HAND Campaign to strive to contribute to meeting the needs of the  millions of women with unmet needs for contraception. With the help of IPPF’s contraceptive services they were able to prevent unwanted pregnancies as well as HIV and AIDS.

• IPPF delivers services to the poorest, most marginalized and under-served women of the world.

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Is Entrepreneurship a Solution To Global Poverty?

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Is Entrepreneurship a Solution To Global Poverty?

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Yes, we believe that entrepreneurship is a solution to global poverty but there are many steps that people, organizations and governments need to take before being able to use entrepreneurship to improve these countries lives.

Nigeria:

In Nigeria, for example, there are many issues that need to be solved, like the lack of a good educational system and the fact that they have the highest rate in the world when it comes to HIV and AIDS. Yes these problems can be solved with the help of entrepreneurship, like the example we mentioned in our presentation of making contraceptives such as condoms and birth control readily available through nonprofit organizations where donations could take place. But for that to happen we need to start small and build our way up. We need to start taking to small groups of people and use the word-of-mouth marketing to raise awareness about this issue. After we take these small steps and succeed we can turn to entrepreneurship and use nonprofits to further solve Nigeria’s problem.

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