Maasai Mara Game Reserve

THEME: Poverty Reduction: VOLUNTEERING AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE CONNECTIVITY • Poverty is a broad-term that describes many circumstances where people lack resources such as money, housing, food, clothing, jobs, and suffer physically, socially, and emotionally from this material deprivation. • Poverty describes a standard of living where a person is unable to afford even a basic diet. International definitions of poverty rely on the classification of the poverty level, which is a level of income below which a person cannot afford to buy all the resources required to live. • Poverty eradication encompasses the will and strategies to stop all people from living in poverty. The focus will be on education, training and gender sensitivity. Inter cultural exchange is aimed at enabling people to put global awareness and intercultural learning into practice. This is enhanced through creating awareness through learning themes on global issues. In so doing it will strengthen participants’ skills in working in community-based organizations actively involved in efforts to alleviate poverty.