Types of Empowerment
Definitions
Poverty
Economic Definitions
Pre-Industrial
100
Define: economic empowerment.

What is having enough wealth to take care of your needs?

100

Food, shelter, and water are an example of this.

What are needs?

100
What is one way to break the poverty cycle?
Education
Resources/Programs
Habitat for Humanity
100
Define: capital
What is money we have above and beyond our basic expenses. Money that can be used to invest or buy a house.
100
These people lived in Canada before Europeans settled.
Who are the Native (Aboriginal) and Inuit people.
200

being free to practice your culture (no matter what it is)

What is cultural empowerment?
200
Define: production
The action of making goods and materials.
200
What does it mean when someone is getting by?
When they have enough money to meet their basic needs.
200
When you don't have enough income to meet your basic expenses.
What is poverty?
200
How did the natives meet their basic needs?
Through hunting, fishing, and using every part of the animal.
300

all members of a society are treated fairly and equally. 

What is societal empowerment?
300
Planes, ships and trucks are examples of:
What is distribution
300
How does having capital help you make more money?
You can save/invest/buy in bulk
300
Define: down payment
What is a percentage of the cost of a house that needs to be paid up front.
300
How did Natives distribute their goods?
Through sharing or trading (barter system)
400

having a say in how things are organized and decisions are made. 

What is political empowerment
400
Games, junk food, fancy shoes, and big houses are examples of:
What are wants?
400
When someone has enough money for basic needs plus more, they are able to:
Able to get ahead
400
When the bank owns part of your house and you pay them until you own the full house.
What is mortgage?
400
The native people needed and wanted this
What is food, shelter and clothing?
500

define: national empowerment

What is a nation having power ti make decisions by itself?

500
Pre-industrial is a time period before:
What is before the European newcomers came to Canada?
500
Give one example of the poverty cycle
sick --> can't work --> poverty
no car --> can't get to work --> poverty
ETC
500
What you get paid on a regular basis (weekly/biweekly)
What is income
500
Who owned the land during pre-industrial Canada?
No one!
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