The Finish Line!

Day Five!

Well, it's been a long week, folks!  I can't say it's been eventful, necessarily, but it was definitely interesting trying to be full, healthy, and cheap all at the same time.  I'm just glad that Ingles has blessed me with Ramen Noodles.

But the bigger picture is that there are still billions of people, families, that face this reality every day of their lives.  When the Earth's resources are open to all men, how can we still deny them to so many?

I hope you feel as strongly as I do about this issue.  When The Global Poverty Project brought their film to Western Carolina University, I was so blown away by the things that they showed us.  Families living in landfills, without the opportunity of employment and a better future, living off of $1.50 a day for everything: medical needs, food, hygiene, clothing, a home, school, everything...

Call me dramatic, but I'm being completely honest when I say that it's mere luck which determines when and where we're born -- luck, that separates us from the severe conditions faced by billions of people every single day of their lives.  We take everything we have for granted... this computer I'm typing on, for instance!  The schools we go to, the beds we sleep on.  I could go on and on about it, but I have a very famous quote that explains what I'm thinking better than I ever could:

"If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?" 

-- 1 John 3:17 (NIV)

Please, take a second out of your day to donate to the efforts of the Global Poverty Project, and their continued fight to end world poverty.  You can do that here.  Remember, you can donate until May 31st!

Chelsea

Ending Global Poverty

Day Three.

Enough about me!  If you guys come here, you deserve to know about the issue at hand.

Since the Global Poverty Project first initiated their efforts at alleviating poverty, the number of those in extreme poverty has been reduced from 1.4 Billion to to 1.2 Billion, and things are looking up!

The Global Poverty Project utilises the power of education, communications, advocacy, campaigning and the media to advance the movement to end extreme poverty.

We know extreme poverty is a complex issue, and that it can’t be eradicated overnight, or by one person. That’s why we’re building a global movement for change: focused on making a difference now, and changing the systems and policies that keep people in poverty. 

We do this in two ways: 

• Campaigning for government, business and consumer action that will create important systemic change for the world’s extreme poor, and

• Building a movement that engages and educates people, and supports them to take simple but effective individual actions for change.

If you're interested in the Global Poverty Project and want to help them take action against the injustice of global poverty, you should check out there website, here.  If you're interested in helping them gain funding, you should consider donating to them, here.

Chelsea