R.E poverty coursework
Christians teach of seven main causes of poverty. They are: * The Cycle of Debt * Inability to Recover from Natural Disasters * Corrupt Governments * The Arms Race * Ignorance and Illiteracy * Unfair Trade * A Population Explosion These have been determined to be the foremost causes of poverty. The Cycle of Debt occurs where countries have been lent money to help them become ultimately independent; however the richer countries who lent money to the third world countries charged them interest which they couldn't afford. This meant they had to loan money to pay the interest and then loan money to pay the interest for that. This cycle still goes on and only builds up the debt of each third world country in this situation. Exodus 22:21-22, 25 says that we must not exploit the poor, but help them without asking for anything in return. If we were to all live in this manner then the Cycle of Debt would no longer be a problem and countries would be able to be economically stable and thus hunger and disease would be greatly reduced in lesser economically developed countries. War and The Arms Race consume an enormous amount of third world countries money. Also wars can ruin trade for citizens within the country at war. Therefore, this deprives countries of such amenities as food and medicine. War divides many countries unnecessarily. If we all lived as Jesus taught then war
There are many different charities in the world, each of them do lots of different work. The work that they do is to help people.
Wesley Aisthorpe GR10-22 Charity Essay There are many different charities in the world, each of them do lots of different work. The work that they do is to help people. Here are some of the categories in which charities help people: Culture, Sport, Education, Scientific Research, Health and Medicine, Social Services, Conservation and Protection, Housing, Civil Rights and Law and Order, Religion, International Activities. For example, Cancer Research UK is in the category of Health and Medicine, researching the disease of cancer and ways to cure or to prevent it, and Oxfam is in the category of International Activities, helping people who are suffering all over the world. Some of the most well-known charities are Oxfam, The N.S.P.C.C, The World Wide Fund For Nature, Age Concern, Cancer Research UK, BBC Children In Need, The R.S.P.C.A and Comic Relief, and these are the charities that we will be looking at. Here is some information about the charities and what they do to help people: Oxfam Registered charity number 202918 Oxfam was founded in 1942. Since then it has grown and became Oxfam International, which is a confederation of 12 different organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, members of Oxfam International believe they can
'Charity should begin at home'.
'Charity should begin at home' C.Sturge 5b 1.10.03 When someone says 'charity' to you, what do you think of? You think of Oxfam and Red Cross and sending food to far off lands which you know little about. Because of this charity is a very misunderstood word. How many of you here today give or know people who give money to organisations such as these? I'm sure you could all name a few. Now although I believe that this is indeed a kind and worthwhile pursuit it believe it slightly misses the point of charity, these people are happy to give money to what they believe to be good causes but they do not wish to give time or have a direct impact. A lot of these people have more than enough money and so donating to charity has little impact on their lives other than clearing their consciences and making them feel like better people. They are assuming that the western world of today, their world, countries like Britain and America are rich, safe and enlightened so that everybody can have a home and enough money to live happily. I put it to you that this is an extremely naïve and arrogant belief. There are almost 380,000 people recorded as homeless in the UK today and many more disadvantaged people such as disabled and single parents who are currently unable to work, living off government benefits in poor conditions unable to break out of the poverty trap for
Christians believe strongly in world equality, as they feel that they have a responsibility to care for the poor and needy. These responsibilities are based upon the five key Christian ideas
Religious Education Coursework Topic 9 - Religion, Poverty and Wealth TASK 1 Christians believe strongly in world equality, as they feel that they have a responsibility to care for the poor and needy. These responsibilities are based upon the five key Christian ideas . Stewardship Genesis (1: 28 - 31) In this story God creates Adam and Eve. He builds a beautiful house and a beautiful garden with trees laden with ripe and delicious fruit for them to live in. 'Pick the fruit and eat it freely,' God told them, 'but do not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle as it is evil, and if eaten you will die.' One day a cunning snake persuaded Eve to eat a piece of fruit from the forbidden tree. After much persuasion Eve reluctantly took the fruit and ate it. God was furious that someone would go against his word, so he banished Adam and Eve from the beautiful house with the beautiful garden, and out into the human world. The moral of this story is to not go against God's word. One of God's teachings is 'Love thy neighbour', by Christians helping poverty suffering communities around the world, then they are 'loving thy neighbour'. 2. Biblical cautions Kings (21: 1 - 25) The King and The Vineyard In this story the King is determined to purchase a specific vineyard, he promises the vineyard owner another vineyard or the King would give him the equivalent in money. The man
Looking at poverty.
The world includes less developed countries and developing countries. Less developed countries are countries considered to be poor and often contain many people who are in absolute poverty. Developing countries are countries like India, which are gaining in wealth. There are two types of poverty within the world. Absolute poverty is where people don't have enough money to provide standard living conditions for themselves and characteristics of substandard lives are disease, malnutrition, and low-life expectancy. Relative poverty is where a person is considered poor in relation to the average wealth held in their society. Poverty is a major problem within the developing world. The developing world holds 75% of the world's population yet only 20% of the world's wealth. This presents a problem and the shortage of money leads them into the vicious circle of poverty, where one factor leads to another and eventually the situation spirals to terrible extents. Natural disasters plunge developing world countries and less economically developed countries. For example the heavy flooding that wreaked havoc on the inhabitants of Mozambique and the Gujarat earthquake disaster of early 2001. The disasters cause poverty because these countries are often weak financially and cannot afford to restore their country after extensive damage. Therefore due to lack of resources the situation gets
Are all the problems of the Developing World caused by greed and selfishness?
Are all the problems of the Developing World caused by greed and selfishness? The problems of the Developing World are not just caused by Greed and Selfishness, there are many other reasons for problems like lack of Education. Education is one of most important basic need for developing a country. But in most developing countries there are only four adults in ten who can read and write and less than one in four children go to secondary school. Without education people can't work properly, but work can give us identity,security and meet many of other basic needs. Today world un employment stands at around 500 millions, 300 millions of there are in the less-developed countries. Lack of clean water, again this is a basic need for developing countries, water is essential for life, without clean water people are hard to stay alive. Clean water vital for the control of diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera, about 80% diseases are from dirty unsafe drinking water. If a people get caught by diseases, they are also hard to stay alive because in most of very poor developing countries, they are facing lack of medical cares. If a person sick by a serious disease he has to travel thousand miles to find a local hospital, but for most the time when people got there, the disease is all ready developed more seriously, and beacuse the lack of right medical equipments, after all
Outline Christian teaching and the teaching of one other religion on wealth and poverty.
R.E Coursework (1) a) Outline Christian teaching and the teaching of one other religion on wealth and poverty. When we think poverty, we think being poor, hungry, homeless which is exactly what it means. The opposite of this would be wealthy, meaning a lot of money, property or riches. Even the world we live in is separated between wealthy and poor, this is called the north-south divide. The wealthier countries are located to be in the north, areas including USA, Eastern Europe, Canada, and Egypt. Meanwhile you would find poorer countries to be in the south, for example Brazil, Mexico, even poorer countries where you are more likely to find poverty would be places like Sudan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. When measuring a countries wealth it is usually measured by their GDP per capita. Some of the richest countries in the world include Luxembourg, USA, Switzerland and some of the poorest countries are Sierra Leone, Tanzania. Ethiopia and Somalia. This essay will be looking at Christian and Islamic views on wealth and poverty. Many Christians believe that wealth is acceptable as long as it is used to help others. Although the bible suggests that being rich may make you selfish, "people who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires", (Timothy 6:9-10). Christians believe it is important to share your wealth; an example of this is
Coursework on equity & trust.
SOUTHBANK UNIVERSITY BUSSINESS SCHOOL LLB LAW - YEAR 1 FULL TIME STUDENT NO. : 2151002 Seminar Tutor: Ms. Thatcher COURSEWORK ON EQUITY & TRUST No.1 " The legal meaning of charity is bonkers," said the Chairperson of the charity Finance Group some years ago. The Charity Commission is currently reviewing the register of Charities. Write a briefing note to the Chief Commissioner, critically evaluating the present legal meaning of "charity," suggesting the most important reforms that ought to be considered, and explaining which type of voluntary organizations would be affected and why. Dear Sir, The purpose of this letter is to give you a brief opinion about the development of charities. I have produced reports that seek information from the preamble to the statute of Queen Elizabeth 1601, till the recent case law. I have visited and found in your website statistics that I shall remind you in order to boldface the great amount that charity organizations produce each year. I will then suggest you some reformations that I hope you will consider deeply, since the charity commission is the only organization for the development and the supervision of the UK charity organizations by statute. The expression "Charity" and its legal meaning, Charities are an everyday phenomenon of the social environment. In simple words charity is "a kindness or sympathy towards others" or
Analyse and Explain the work of one Muslim Agency working for world development
Aiii) Analyse and explain the work of one Muslim Agency working for World Development In this section of coursework I will write about the work of a Muslim agency, a Muslim agency is an organization dedicated to reducing poverty and reducing the suffering of poor people around the world. There are many different Muslim agencies situated in different parts of the world but the one I will be looking into is 'Islamic Relief (IR)'. Islamic Relief (IR) is an international relief and development charity, which aims to reduce the suffering of the world's poorest people. It is an independent Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in the UK in 1984 by Dr Hany El Banna. IR currently has field offices in Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Chechnya, China, Egypt, Kosova, Indonesia, Mali, Pakistan, Palestine, and Sudan, and carries out further projects in Ethiopia Jordan, Kenya, India, Iraq Somalia, and Yemen. Islamic Relief responds to disasters and emergencies i.e. Short-Term Aid. They also provide Long-Term Aid for many countries across the world, which will last for a long time, providing people with many things and means of survival. As a Muslim Agency, Islamic Relief believes: "Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind" Qur'an 5:32 Also the Prophet (s.a.w) said: "Best people are those who are useful to others." This hadith shows that
Religious studies - Wealth and Poverty
Coursework Wealth and Poverty Ai. Outline the Christian teaching, and the teaching of one other religion on wealth and poverty. All religions worldwide have different views and arguments on wealth and poverty, even within Christianity. Most Churches themselves are full of wealth, such as The Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Many Christians also have personal fortunes. In fact there are even some churches that preach that the more wealth you have the more loved you will be by God, this is very common especially in. Yet there have always been Christians who have chosen to live in poverty in some of the poorest parts of the world. They believe that this is right, because even Jesus led a pure and simple life within poverty. This is also shown in the Bible when Jesus said; "It is much harder for a rich person to enter The Kingdom of God than for a camel To go through the eye of a needle." ....Mark 10.25 All Christians believe that the world and everything in it has been created by God, so nothing in the world is evil itself. So money id neither good nor bad, what does matter is what we use it for, and how we share it. If Christians are unsure that what they are doing is right, they turn to the Bible for help. There they will find that Jesus lived in a world, which some people were very rich and other were extremely poor. Jesus announces at the beginning