Poverty Observation Report

animals thoroughly. I did 25 hours community service at Grannies House Crèche during the school holidays and recently I have just finished doing 30 hours community service at the Randburg SPCA. I have not been involved in any Poverty Alleviation projects although I would love to help our beautiful country and to help it develop into the country we have always dreamed of.

Certificate of community service at Grannies House

Certificate of community service at the Randburg SPCA

Justin Stanford

Justin Stanford is a 31-year old entrepreneur, an investor and shareholder. He is founder, board member, consultant, managing director and investor to a wide array of companies in the global technology sector. He left high-school early to go after his

How the government spends taxpayers’ money and its own revenue should be available to the media and the public. This causes governments to be accountable for the actions they take. It discourages corruption in the Government.

Poverty alleviation interventions of the Government are currently unable to reduce inequalities. Many of the existing policies deal mostly with unbeneficial jobs rural women perform. Most of these interventions are not well implemented and therefore do not benefit the number of citizens.

Poverty Alleviation Programme aims to ease the impacts of poverty and to help people escape the poverty cycle. This programme aims to provide sustainable economic and social interventions that are linked to the growth of eThekwini Municipality. This encourages co-ordination of services between government and the public.

The Economic Interventions are involved in the cutting of grass and cleaning the area projects. These projects are conducted by people ranging from 12 to 35 per group where they are trained both administrators and members.

The Social Intervention is a form of food security project by running fourteen soup kitchens within the municipal

Prejudice and inequality. Social inequality branches from cultural ideas about the worth of different races and genders as well as ethnic groups, and social classes.

Ascribed inequality happens when placing individuals into different social categories and is often based on religious, ethnic, and racial characteristics which are mainly what apartheid was about.

In our South African history, apartheid laws assigned different rights and social areas to different races, using skin colour to determine the opportunities available to individuals of each group. The government chose to treat different races and religions with prejudice and treat others better which leads to poverty.

5. High rate of unemployment - the global financial crisis has damaged the world's economy and therefore there is a higher number of unemployed people and therefore the crime rates increase as people desperately try to survive. Some governments of the world keep a "sufficient" amount of people out of work on purpose as a back-up for when the need