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Educate women and girls; 

Create a transparency in government spending. 

Canceling impossible world debts.

Prioritizing human rights programs.

Creating colleges, universities, and STEM academies.

Taxing the rich more and the poor less.

Building a self sufficient economy.

Taxing oil companies from other countries that are taking their oil with no repercussions.

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Seventy-five percent of the world's poorest countries are located in Africa. These countries include Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Ethiopia. The Democratic Republic of Congo is actually considered to be the poorest country in the world with a GDP of $394.25 in 2013.

In 2010, 414 million people were living in extreme poverty across sub-Saharan African countries.

One out of three people in sub-Saharan African countries are not eating enough food to live a healthy life.

In sub-Saharan Africa, 589 million people live without electricity. 80 percent of the population relies on wood, charcoal, and dung in order to cook their food.

37 percent of the 738 million people who do not have access to clean water live in Africa.

]]> 2016-12-02 14:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141385161 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141388324 2016-12-02 14:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141388324 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141388740 2016-12-02 14:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141388740 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141389412 Africa is the most impoverished continent in the world, with approximately 34% of the entire population impoverished. Africa's poverty issue is "a scar on the world's conscience," and it should be pretty obvious that something needs to be done about the issue. Here are some facts and solutions to their poverty issue.]]> 2016-12-02 14:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141389412 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141393305 2016-12-02 14:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141393305 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141759219 There are many things that caused Africa to be such an impoverished nation. These things include the exploitation of oil-rich African countries by large companies and corporations who do not have to pay taxes for the oil they are digging up.
The authoritarian rule of many African countries is also one of the many reasons that poverty is very prevalent in Africa. The authoritarian rule is often based off of religious beliefs, and therefor it restricts some people from things like getting proper education to getting a job that they would be more efficient at.]]> 2016-12-05 15:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/141759219 hunter_hobbs https://padlet.com/hunter_hobbs/3qcf3i34s6ul/wish/142027099

In the 1950's, only four countries had their own independent government, and the rest were colonized by western civilization, where they used the resources and contributed to the poverty stricken continent.

Over the last 30 years, the poverty in the entire world has fallen sharply, but Africa's poverty has barely changed.

In Côte d’Ivoire, 30 years of success was possible thanks to the realization that grass root farmers could become wealthy from their own exports, rather than subsistence farming.

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Many humanitarian foundations and companies have made progress in reducing the amount of poverty in Africa. These foundations include but are not limited to:

• Kids In Distressed Situations (KIDS) put 99% of their income towards charity.
• Concern Worldwide US is a charity group that is mainly concerned with the bottom 40 (in terms of HDI) of African countries.
• Action Against Hunger's primary focus is to end global hunger, and their charity group has helped Africa significantly.

Thanks to help from humanitarian aid and charity groups, the African rate of extreme poverty has dropped from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012.

In the past decade, the fastest growing countries in the world were all African.

Africa is very enthusiastic for new technology. 6 million people in Africa have mobile phones, and a new STEM college is being constructed in Africa.

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