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21 pages. This paper focuses on poverty and its effects on children in the multitude of ways that poverty can strike, not only in the United States but also in the world over. The major focus on this topic is the anti-poverty organization called Childreach, which is the United States member of PLAN. How this organization is reaching out to help those children in need and the results it has seen will all be included herein. Other programs will be noted as well in order to provide a basis of opinion as to what exactly is being done to help the children that are victims of poverty. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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in the world over. The major focus on this topic is the anti-poverty organization called Childreach, which is the United States member of PLAN. How this organization is
reaching out to help those children in need and the results it has seen will all be included herein. Other programs will be noted as well in order to
provide a basis of opinion as to what exactly is being done to help the children that are victims of poverty. ABOUT CHILDREACH: LEARNING ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Childreach is
the U.S. member of PLAN. This organization is located all over the world and is a non-profit organization. Helping not only the children but their needy families as
well, in every nation imaginable, the organizations website explains about their five domains: * Growing Up Healthy * Learning * Livelihood * Habitat * Building Relationships The organization
is "without religious, political or governmental affiliation. We strive to increase understanding and unity among people of different cultures and countries, and to promote the rights and interests of the
worlds children" (Childreach 2002, PG). To understand the hardship of health care placed upon the poverty-stricken, it is important to first define poverty itself. Childreach will tell us
that poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate standard of living" (McDowell 1995, PG). In the 1960s,
federal agencies used the average cost of food to establish the difference between the impoverished and everyone else (Martinez 1994, PG). This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty
line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Northeast or the rural West (1994). Not surprisingly, many people did not look
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