Transcript Session 3 - PowerPoint 2 - Our Global Community

Our Global Reality
Number of people in the world
7.28 billion
5.3
million people
in Scotland
(Census 2011)
Number of Catholics in the world
1.228 billion
0.8
million Catholics
in Scotland
(Census 2011)
Let’s take 1.2 billion Catholics in our world today and reduce
them to a single congregation of 100 people. If this single
congregation of 100 people represents the whole Catholic
community then it would look like this...
EUROPE .... 37
NORTH AMERICA .... 14
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA .... 27
AFRICA.... 11
ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.... 10
AUSTRALIA AND
OCEANIA .... 1
Literacy
Nearly 800
million people
worldwide,
about 12% of the
population,
are functionally
illiterate
School attendance
On average, 91% of
children attend
primary school
worldwide, but
only 58% of
children of
secondary school
age attend
secondary school
School attendance
According to the
United Nations and
UNICEF, one in five
girls of primaryschool age are not
in school,
compared to one in
six boys
Water
Worldwide,
780 million
people do not
have access to
an improved
water source
Sanitation
2.5 billion
people lack
access to
improved
sanitation
Sanitation
More
people have
a mobile
phone than
a toilet!
Income
Nearly 1/2 of the world’s population,
more than 3 billion people,
live on less than $2.50 (£1.60) a day.
More than 1.3 billion live in extreme
poverty, that's less than $1.25 (80p) a
day.
Income
Worldwide 1
billion children
(one in two
children)
are living in
poverty
Income
In Scotland, one million people,
nearly 20% of the population,
Are living below the poverty line
That’s less than £364 per week
Poverty And Income Inequality In Scotland Report (2012/13)
Income
In Scotland, 1 in 5
children (20%)
are living in
poverty
Poverty
has implications
for how families
feed themselves...
Food
In 2011, SCIAF
provided food aid to
families in East
Africa affected by
drought, with no
income to fall back
on.
Food
In 2013/14, over
913,000 people
across the UK
received food aid
from food banks.
Climate change
At home or abroad,
poverty affects a
person’s ability to deal
with climate change...
Climate change
“The poorest areas and
countries are less capable of
adopting new models for
reducing environmental
impact because they lack
the wherewithal to develop
the necessary processes and
to cover their costs.”
Laudato Si, 52
Overseas – El Salvador
Unpredictable weather makes life very
difficult for poor communities:
“Climate change in this country makes
things complicated, because
sometimes we get flooded, and all life
is drowned by the water.
After that we suffer a period of
drought, therefore it’s difficult to know
what to do to cope with the situation”
Valeriano shows the loudspeakers used to issue
early flooding evacuation warnings to the
community Photo: SCIAF
Valeriano Gonzales, Bajo LempaUsulutan, El Salvador
In Scotland
Jedburgh, Scotland – flooding in 2012
Storms and flooding are
increasingly common
yet 1 in 3 Scottish
households live in fuel
poverty.
This means spending
more than 10% of the
household budget on
household fuel.
Climate change
“Our lack of response to
these tragedies involving
our brothers and sisters
points to the loss of that
sense of responsibility for
our fellow men and women
upon which all civil society
is founded.”
Laudato Si, 25
Migration
Climate change,
combined with
poverty can make it
difficult for people
to continue living
their traditional
lifestyles
Gantulga and his family, Mission Matters Scotland
Migration
“There has been a
tragic rise in the
number of migrants
seeking to flee from the
growing poverty caused
by environmental
degradation.”
Gantulga and his family, Mission Matters Scotland
Laudato Si, 25
Migration
Gantulga and his
family had to give up
their traditional
nomadic lifestyle and
move into town after
losing all of their
livestock in a natural
disaster, a
consequence of
climate change.
Gantulga and his family, Mission Matters Scotland
Migration
“…it is essential to show
special care for
indigenous communities
and their cultural
traditions. They are not
merely one minority
among others, but should
be the principal dialogue
partners…For them, land
is not a commodity but
rather a gift from God…”
Laudato Si, 146
Gantulga and his family, Mission Matters Scotland
Refugees
For other families, poverty and
the impact of climate change
can be factors in leaving their
country altogether and
becoming refugees or asylum
seekers.
Conflict and civil unrest in their
home communities can be
major factors also.
Adnan fled from Damascus with his family
(Photo: Val Morgan, SCIAF)
Refugees
“The impact of present
imbalances is also seen in the
premature death of many of
the poor, in conflicts sparked
by the shortage of resources,
and in any number of other
problems which are
insufficiently represented on
global agendas.”
Laudato Si, 48
Adnan fled from Damascus with his family
(Photo: Val Morgan, SCIAF)
Refugees
In Syria’s civil war,
many families are
internally displaced or
have fled the country.
Adnan with his wife and granddaughter
(Photo: Val Morgan, SCIAF)
Refugees
In 2013, over 23,000
people claimed
asylum in the UK.
36% were accepted
and allowed to stay.
Dungavel detention Centre, Scotland. Holding centre
for immigrants before removal from the UK.
Refugees
How well do we
welcome
refugees and
asylum seekers in
the UK?
Dungavel detention Centre, Scotland. Holding centre
for immigrants before removal from the UK.
Refugees
“…where injustices abound
and growing numbers of
people are deprived of basic
human rights and
considered expendable, the
principle of the common
good immediately becomes
[…] a summons to solidarity
and a preferential option
for the poorest of our
brothers and sisters.”
Laudato Si, 158
This is
our global community