The Nobel Peace Prize Assignment!

Mother Teresa

The life  of “Mother Teresa”  (Biography)

Mother Teresa was born on the 27^th of August of the year,

1910.

Mother Teresa died on the 5^th of September 1997.

Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun of Albanian and Indian Citizenship. She founded The Missionaries of Charity, Caring for the poor, orphaned, sick and dying. This started just in India and then eventually went on to other countries. Mother Teresa had an older brother, “Lazar” and an older sister, “Age.” Mother Teresa was always her own person. She was so independent and obedient. In 1980, Mother Teresa won India’s highest Civilian Honour, for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa’s orphanages, children’s hospitals, and much other charity’s continued to expand to 123 countries, at the time of her death.

How did Mother Teresa get this award?

Mother Teresa got this award for doing good things, e.g. charity work. She has started many charity foundations, not just in her own country but in many other countries. Mother Teresa got awarded The Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

The Origin of The Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was created by a man called “Alfred Nobel.” “Alfred Nobel” demanded that five people chosen by The Norwegian Parliament, “who have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Each year someone wins The Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa won The Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Explain how the person got involved in the work. 

Mother Teresa has also been involved in Charity work but more recent than earlier on in her life. She left home when she was 18 and joined The Sister’s of Loreto as a missionary, but she then never ever saw her Mother or Sister again. On the 7^th of October 1950, Mother Teresa

received permission to start The Missionaries Charity.

The mission was to care for, in her own words, “The hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, and all of those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.” Then because she did so much good charity work, she got awarded The Nobel Peace Prize.

8 Millennium Goals:

	Goal	Target	What Aus is doing?
1.	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.	Halve between 1990 and 2015 the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day.	Australia is providing 1.6 million Bangladesh disadvantaged children with access to pre-primary and primary education. Providing affordable housing.
2.	Achieve universal primary education.	Ensure that by 2012 children everywhere, boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of primary school education.	Founded new schools in louse and providing them with nutritious snacks. They have doubled the number of children especially girls in Australian supported school.
3.	Promote gender equality and empower women.	Increase proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education.	Increasing the development of scholarship for east Timor women. Encouraging women in east Timor to register for jobs. Supporting leadership and governance training for women across the Asia pacific region.
4.	Reduce child mortality.	Reduce by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, the underline mortality rate.	Training more skilled birth attendants in rural and remote PNG to help reduce infant deaths. Increasing births supervised by skilled staff is an important focus of the PNG Australia partnership for development. Working with governments and other donors to improve the supply of vaccinations and immunisation globally
5.	Improve maternal health.	Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate.  Achieve universal Access to reproductive health.	Helping to train the next generation of midwives and providing specialist surgical services and training in east Timor. Supporting Outreach clinics, which target remote and rural villages with information on health, nutrition and family planning. Helping to find maternal and reproductive health activities in developing countries across the region and in Afghanistan.
6.	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.	Have Halted but 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it.	Committed up to $100 million to work in partnership with Indonesia to combat the spread of HIV and improve the quality of like for those living with the virus. Supporting needle syringe programs, voluntary counselling, testing and prevention services and methadone programs in Indonesia. Committed $160 million in 2009-10 to combat the spread of the pandemic through its global HIV/AIDS inactive, up from $130 million in 2008-9
7.	Ensure environmental sustainability.	Integrate the Principles of sustainable development into countries policies and programs.  Halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.	Providing $150 million through the international Climate Change Adaption imitative, to help vulnerable countries in our region increase resilience to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Working to Improve understanding of current and projected climate change impacts to help Pacific islands countries make informed adaption decisions. Funding monitoring stations to ensure Pacific Island countries have access to accurate data on sea level rise.
8.	Develop a global partnership for development.	Non applicable.	Australia is working closely with developing countries and development partners to build global partnerships which address poverty.

India

Some recent achievements and challenges of India:

·         India has some frequent natural disasters, with such a large population, this means that lots of Indian’s are affected. Although India has a good system for responding to the disasters when they occur.  Cyclones occur in the bay of

Bengal, and they get damaging earthquakes in the central northern area.

·          Deforestation, river and air pollution are major pressures on the environment.

The government has initiated various programs to improve health but India still suffers from health problems linked to poverty, malnutrition, rapid population growth, environmental pollution and neglect of children and women's well being. Life expectancy is about 70 years.

The average income is over three quarters of the population live on less than US $2 a day.

66% of Adults can read and write in India.

45% of mobile phones are available to people in India each year. 

The Government spends $37.6 billion on Education in India per year.

Poverty Reduction. - Assessment.

Poverty Reduction

We need to reduce poverty as it is such a horrible thing.

People going through Poverty have no choice but to keep going through it, we can change this, we can do something about it but people in places like: Africa, would love to get out of their poor living conditions and come to a rich country like Australia or England, etc. The things that we think are nothing, just simple everyday things, well people who are in Poverty would find that what we find nothing, they actually struggle to do. That is why it is so important that we reduce Poverty.

Summary and Background

What is Poverty?

Poverty is where you are starving hungry but you are so poor that you cannot afford your next meal, and you do not know when that is going to be. Poverty is not having a house or a home, not roof over your head, nowhere to go when it rains. Poverty is where you cannot afford medicine. Poverty is not being able to give those who have died a proper farewell and Goodbye, where you can’t bury them, or scatter there ashes because that isn’t an option as they can’t not get put in a coffin to get burnt. Poverty is where you know that you will always be going through this situation – (poverty), as you cannot afford anything because you have no money so it is an endless cycle, which is really sad as people going through poverty have such a bad life.

Why does Poverty Occur?

About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty. Poverty is where people struggle to afford basic human needs. This is due to the fact that the people in the community get a very little income, which means that the poverty life cycle begins, so poverty occurs really based on the fact of a very low income. If people got paid more money then poverty could be avoided.

What can be done about Poverty?

If Employers paid their workers more money then poverty would not exist. Poverty is all about money because if you do not have very much money then you obviously can’t afford human supplies, which means that you will get sick and probably die, or if you survive with having nothing then you will live a very miserable life.

What organisations are currently being done to address Poverty Reduction?

There are a few organisations, such as :

·        Prosthetics Outreach Foundation.

·        United Prosperity.

·        Act Now.

·        Fight Poverty.

·        4Ever Poverty.

It is really great that there are so many organisations to help Poverty, as these poor people really need help and support.

What can we do to address Poverty?

We can get people to do charity work out there and fly over food and clean water supplies, and set up a community where people get paid a fair amount of money, so that we put a stop to poverty.