Global Poverty: Chevron's Riverboat Clinic

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The very first global challenge that I identified is global poverty. Poverty is based mostly on the lack of income or wages that the poor is receiving. Based on the “11 Facts of Global Poverty”, more than 3 billion people in the world live with less than $2.50 per day and nearly half of that amount live in extreme poverty, with just $1.25 per day (2015). This problem extends to the extreme where the article also stated “22,000 children die each day due to poverty”, which has a serious affect on the world’s population (2015). According to the article “Quick Facts about Poverty”, 80% of the global poor are located at Sub-Saharan Africa and also South Asia (2015).
As stated in the article “Only Business Can End Poverty” by Mal Warwick, “private …show more content…

Their approach towards the problem is through financial funding for local organizations and also providing free health services. According to the official website of Chevron, Chevron had been funding the Chevron’s Riverboat Clinic to provide a mobile health service towards the communities along the creeks and islets of the Escravos and Benin rivers in the western Niger Delta. The purpose of Chevron’s Riverboat Clinic is to provide free treatment to communities and currently treats 2,500 patients every day, majority women and children that don’t have access to healthcare. In just the year 2015, Chevron’s Riverboat Clinic has treated more than 49,500 men, women and children in Nigeria (Chevron). In addition to that, the article “Chevron Donates $30 Million to Global Health Fund” stated that Chevron has also donated $30 million to the Global Health Fund to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria in Nigeria through the Global Fund Corporate Champions program (2008). The Global Fund is a unique public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. So far, the Global Fund Corporate Champions program had “averted 2 million deaths by providing AIDS treatment for 1.4 million people and TB treatment for 3.3 million people, and by distributing 46 million insecticide-treated bed nets that help prevent the spread of malaria (2008).” Chevron shows that by investing sufficient amount into health issues, it can bring large improvement on the

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