<p class="text-align-justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">surviving on less than $2 per day is a reality for approximately 600 million people throughout the world today. Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, there are millions of individuals across the United Kingdom who suffer from poverty.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="text-align-justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">About 8% of the population in the world lives in severe poverty, which is usually defined as living on less than $1.90 per day.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="text-align-justify"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:SimSun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="color:#0e101a">Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, millions of individuals in the United Kingdom suffer from poverty. If housing costs are taken into account, the government believes that up to 14.5 million individuals were in poverty before the outbreak. With a population of over 67 million people, it translates to one out of every four or five individuals in the UK. According to the Legatum Institute, another 700,000 individuals were forced into poverty as a result of the pandemic, bringing the total number of people living in poverty to almost 15 million.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
