Campaign for a Better World

Campaign for a Better World

Campaign for a Better World is an initiative created by an anti-poverty advocate. As a way of raising awareness of the need to do more to end extreme poverty. Campaign for a Better World provide stories related to Philippine poverty- all to raise awareness, inspire to action and make an impact.

Raising Poverty Awareness

“Helping the poor is something many of us consider important, and it’s something we could all contribute more. However, learning about poverty, who it effects, and how you can help is one thing. Actually raising enough awareness to inspire other people to get involved is quite another.”

Host Educational Events. We will Invite people to attend an event where they can learn something really useful for their own lives, while also learning about poverty issues.

Host Social Events. Make the reason to get together fun and social, and then tack on some information about your cause.

Organize a Service Project. We will allow groups (e.g., service clubs, employees at a company, etc.) to volunteer together in some way related to our work, perhaps on a special volunteer day.

Be the Helpful Friend.  We will share helpful tips in friendly way, such as how-to articles and checklists.

Share Your Gratitude.  We will bring attention to and share our gratitude for others who are doing good work on our issue. Paragraph

Volunteer or Donate.  We would organize a family day, festival,
 fete or award presentation. It could involve as many local people
as possible from schools, welfare or community organizations,
police, health centers, places of worship etc. Different groups could
have stalls or exhibits which explain or promote their services or
issues.

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Campaign for a Better World is an awareness raising campaign run by the charitable organisation Towards a Better World. 

Philippine Poverty

The Philippines is a country located in Southeast Asia comprised of more than 7,000 islands. Poverty has proven to be one of the most significant challenges facing this country and its citizens. Filipinos are having a hard time surviving in such difficult conditions, and more and more are falling into extreme poverty.

According to the Asian Development Bank, the major causes of poverty include: low economic growth, a weak agricultural sector, increased population rates and a high volume of inequality. Because of these factors, there are a lot of effects of poverty in the Philippines that make it difficult for people to live in such circumstances.

The Philippine’s poverty level is also tied to uncontrolled population growth. According to the U.N. the Philippines “rapid population growth has exacerbated poverty and has fueled rapid urban population growth, overseas labor migration, and unprecedented environmental degradation.”

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Hunger is one of the extreme effects of poverty in the Philippines. With little money to buy food, Filipinos are having to survive on very limited food; even when food supplies are stable, they are most accessible in other areas where people have enough income to purchase the food.

And with such an unequal distribution of income, there is a low demand for food supplies in less developed areas that are home to low-income residents. The quality of food is also decreasing — rice used to be the main source of food for Filipinos, but now it has largely been replaced with instant noodles, which is cheaper but less nutritious. As a result, malnutrition has become a lot more common.

Welcome to our Blog!

Our blog is focused on helping Filipinos who are living in extreme poverty. The Philippines is a country located in Southeast Asia. Poverty has proven to be one of the most significant challenges facing this country and its citizens. Filipinos are having a hard time surviving in such difficult conditions, and more and more are falling into extreme poverty. This Blog is to help those families that is living in extreme poverty as well as raising awareness, inspire to action and make an impact and overcoming Philippine poverty once and for all.

The Philippines is the rising tiger economy of Asia. But only the rich people are going up and up. The poor falling behind again. We want to make a change in this country but the real challenge is not so much to “help the poor” but to make a new commitment to reduce inequalities and finance effective redistribution. We should treat each other equally especially between the rich and the poor.

No one should ever have to live in Poverty and we need to do more to help the world’s poor. Our campaign awareness for poverty would be a big help if you would team up with us. Let us make the Philippines the rising tiger economy of Asia once again and let the poor go up not fall behind.

Find out more about our blog about campaign awareness through the blogs, about, contact, media-information, and photo gallery on this website.

This section includes informations, articles, photos about the poverty in the Philippines that have appeared in the media.

Self-rated hunger in PH returns to downward trend at 9.9%.

The March 2018 numbers show significant improvement after the spike in the 2017 survey, where self-related hunger was 15.9%

Rappler.com
Published 12:31 PM, April 30, 2018
Updated 12:31 PM, April 30, 2018

MANILA, Philippines – An estimated 2.3 million Filipino families or close to 10% (specifically 9.9%) of the population said they suffered hunger in the first quarter of 2018, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on Monday, April 30.

The numbers showed significant improvement after a spike in the December 2017 survey, where self-rated hunger spiked to 15.9%.

The improvement means there were 3.6 million families less who suffered hunger in the first 3 months of 2018 compared to the last 3 months of last year.

It has been below 15% since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office. It was lowest at 9.5% in June 2017 or a year into his term. (READ: Southeast Asia’s poorest mostly Filipinos, Indonesians)

306,000 families suffered severe hunger

The 9.9% is the sum of 306,000 families “often” or “always” hungry (severe hunger) and about 2 million families who experienced hunger “only once” or “a few times” (moderate hunger).

Severe hunger fell from from 3.7% in the last 3 months of 2017. Moderate hunger fell from 12.2% in the December survey.

The highest incidence of self-rated hunger was in Balance Luzon, where 1.1 million families said they suffered hunger at least once in the past 3 months.

More Filipino families considered themselves poor in 2018 – survey

Results of a Social Weather Stations survey show that the average self-poverty rate in 2018 was at 48%, up by two percentage points from 2017A

@reyaika
Published 7:15 PM, January 12, 2019
Updated 7:17 PM, January 12, 2019

MANILA, Philippines – More Filipino families considered themselves poor in 2018, according to the results of the 4th quarter 2018 Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey on self-rated poverty released Friday, January 11.

The survey, which was conducted December 16 to 19, 2018, said that the average self-poverty rate in 2018 was at 48%, or two percentage points higher than 2017’s 46%. In 2016, only 44% of Filipino families think they are poor.

Despite the year-on-year increase, less Filipino households tagged themselves as poor in December 2018, when the self-poverty rate declined to 50% or an estimate of 11.6 million.

This is lower than the 52% or 12.2 million Filipino households that rated themselves as poor in the September 2018 survey. (READ: No poor Filipino by 2040: Can Duterte gov’t set the stage?)

The decline came after an increase in self-rated poverty for two consecutive quarters: 6 percentage points (48%) in June, and 4 percentage points (52%) in September.

SWS said the decline in December was due to a “sharp decrease in Mindanao and a slight decrease in the Visayas, offset by increases in Metro Manila and Balance Luzon.”

Less Filipino families living in Mindanao tagged themselves as poor, with a 16-point difference from 65% in September to 49% in December.

In the same period, self-rated poverty declined from 67% to 61% in Visayas, and increased in Balance Luzon from 47% to 51%, and in Metro Manila, from 26% to 30%.

‘Food poor’

The survey also found that at least 34% or 7.8 million families rated their food as “poor,” lower than the September record of 36% or 8.5 million households.

The decline came after increases in the personal assessment of food poverty during the two previous quarters. Self-rated food poverty rose by 5 percentage points (34%) in March, and two percentage points (36%) in September.

The 2018 average of self-rated food poverty is 33% – similar to the 2017 figure.

Inflation or the increase in the prices of goods started spiking by the end of the 1st quarter of the year, when the March 2018 inflation rate surged to 4.3% from February’s 3.4%. It surpassed economic managers’ target of 2% to 4% in 2018.

Prices continued to accelerate until October, at 6.7% – the highest in more than 9 years. Economists then attributed the high inflation to several factors, such as the upward trend in global fuel prices, agricultural damage caused by Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) in September, and depleted rice supply.

Inflation eased to 6% in November and slowed down to 5.1% in December, as prices of petroleum in the global market significantly dropped.

The latest SWS survey was conducted among 1,440 adults: 360 each in Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao. The survey has sampling error margins of ±2.6% for national percentages, ±5% for Balance Luzon, and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao. – Rappler.com

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