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Eradication of Poverty

Poverty is one of the major obstacles to peace. Here we fight poverty.

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty


Poverty is not just a matter of subsistence. Poverty encompasses the absence of opportunity to partake of the very things we take for granted: food, housing, education, training, work opportunities, and most severely, it denies the right to a fruitful life. Poverty drives individuals to extremes just so as to survive.Others lose hope, faith and will.


Despair drives parents to sell children, teenagers sell their bodies for a pittance and societies crumble incrementally under the pressure of living on nothing.


Values and norms lose meaning as the fight to live through hunger and a spot in a drain pipe for sleep out of the rain, fighting over that extra sniff of glue are all that some children learn about being disposable and invisible to the greater world


And what do we lose in the process? Human potential. We lose a child’s discovery of their own mind, a child who through play and exploration would otherwise uncover the wealth of their own talent and what they could possibly contribute to the world


As you brush off a child who begs to wash your car windows as you wait for a red light, or a kid asks to take your shopping trolley, don’t just imagine it being your own child, but see the scientist, the musician, the economist, the community leader, the teacher, whose potential dies in your looking the other way……


The choice is yours… and yours…and yours And mine! We can make poverty history if we want it to be.


There is this idea that poverty is something that born and bred in developing nations: media and commerce have created the illusion of a great divide… and it is often relegated to a developmental one.


Truth is Poverty is spawned in your own home. It starts in the mind. It grows roots in the soil of apathy and it spreads like a cancer among the backstreets of everything you and I pretend not to see. It flourishes among the garbage bags of everything we take for granted: running water, a bed, warmth, family, holidays, birthday wishes, even a simple smile which lets you know someone has SEEN you, acknowledge your existence…


Poverty is not just a matter of money. Poverty is what comes from living beyond the realm of those in need of a helping hand.


Give, so a girl can development her self confidence and become self-reliant.

Give, so a young man need not prostitute himself to foreign holiday makers,

Give, so that a man need not traffic his child for 50dollars.

Give a Damn… it goes farther than just a Dime …. And BE the difference in their lives and your own.





Poverty like illness knows no boundaries. Wealth does not protect one from it and poverty itself does not make you immune to its impact.


With the current tumbling of the world’s financial markets, the loss of billions around the world offers all of us an opportune moment of reflection. The first Wall Street Crash sent the world into an economic nightmare. These days governments rally together at the speed of light in a financial rescue mission….


And it still does not change one aspect of the status quo…


Those stuck in poverty remain stuck in the mud or rambling knee deep in disease infected refuse landfills, which is home to seagulls and homeless children: it feeds a pittance to some anonymous stricken family in the back streets of Bogota, children scramble bottles together for enough small change to kill the cold off their skin for a night.


Walk around your own city without stepping over some homeless anonymous entity and ask yourself how difficult is it to care…


Poverty Day: Take part! Care enough so there does not have to be one next year!

Create opportunities for Trade rather than Aid.

It's in our hands and hearts... if we choose to have a mind to.....

some pictures courtesy of flickr.com

Discussion Forum

Empower the poor then there will be no poverty

Started by Muhammad Khurshid. Last reply by GOPI KANTA GHOSH Mar 25, 2012. 3 Replies

There Is A Cure For Poverty, and It's Guaranteed

Started by Dr. Uche Akwuba, LCE. Last reply by GOPI KANTA GHOSH Oct 7, 2011. 11 Replies

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Comment by Nguyễn Thị Thanh Hương on December 19, 2010 at 7:19am
Comment by Ghers Zonensain ( Noah's ArK - International peace project) on November 28, 2010 at 8:15pm
El Arca de Noé ... (NOAH "S ARK)
Proyecto de Paz Internacional para el Mejoramiento de las Relaciones de Amistad, Armonia
y cooperación entre todos los paises del mundo .------
PAZ --- --- COOPERACION DESARROLLO

Por una Cultura de Paz y no Violencia
- --
Por una Cultura de Amor y Respeto por el Medio Ambiente


- SOY EL NUEVO PIONERO DEL MUNDO

SOY EL NUEVO PIONERO DEL MUNDO
VEO SIEMPRE HACIA DELANTE, NUNCA HACIA ATRAS.
PORQUE NO MEJOREN ESPERARE CON LOS BRAZOS CRUZADOS AQUE LOS TIEMPOS
YO TRABAJARE PARA MEJORARLOS --
PORQUE ESTE MUNDO NO SE construyo vistiendo DE TRAJE Y SIN ESFUERZO,
Requirió UNA GRAN VISION, TRABAJO, COSTANCIA, FORTALEZA Y Dedicación.
TODO LO QUE NECESITO LO TENGO.
LAS HERIDAS Sanan, EL SUDOR ES BUENO Y LA APATIA ES LA MISMA MUERTE.
¡¡¡POR ESO YO construyo Construire MI MUNDO ¡¡¡¡

UN MUNDO MEJOR, NUEVO Y PODEROSO cimentado ES EL AMOR Y EN VALORES
EL CUAL YO FORGARE A MI GUSTO.
PORQUE ESTOY TAN SEGURO DE QUE DESPUES DE LA TORMENTA
VIENE LA CALMA
Como asimismo TENED POR SEGURO QUE LLEGARA UN MAÑANA MEJOR --

HERMANO VE MAS ALLA DE LAS PRADERAS Y LAS MANTONAS Y VE, VE
LA PROMESA DE UN NUEVO MUNDO
LA PROMESA DEL BIENESTAR Y DEL PROGRESO
PARA TODOS, TODOS NOSOTROS --

VEN HERMANO, ven, ven, AVANZA CONMIGO
Avanzando SIGAMOS JUNTOS --

Adaptacion personal de un cartel de
un comercial vitrina de Lewis -



El pasado es historia, el futuro un misterio, el presente un hermoso regalo.
Solo dispongo del presente, del hoy y del ahora
y me prometo a mi mismo destinarlo una Construir mi sueno
UN MUNDO MEJOR PARA TODOS NOSOTROS -

ME AYUDARAS TU HERMANO A CONSTRUIR MI SUEÑO, TU SUEÑO,
Nuestro Sueño ????????


NOAH'S ARK - is struggling against Hunger and Poverty
EL ARCA DE NOE - esta luchando contra el HAMBRE Y LA POBREZA

Embajador / (Mexicano) de Paz, lucha conta Miseria y el Hambre Dentro Naciones Unidas
Eliminando LA POBREZA RURAL-La experiencia de Israel (NISPED -)
NISPED-Neguev Instititute para la Paz y el Desarrollo

ETICA CIENTIFICA - FIN DELA POBREZA'''''?????????
Hombres de ciencia, Honorables Premios Nobel, Distinguidos empresarios y hombres de negocios
Dedicad vuestro talento, vuesto intelecto, ese bello "Don" regalo de la naturaleza
hacia Necesidades de la Humanidad --

AGUA EN ALDEAS Pobres de Malí (África)
ONG - CRUZ AZUL INTERNACIONAL (logrado Exito total)
"Colaboramos con el desarrollo de las poblaciones necesitadas, Facilitando el Acceso a Recursos
ratuitos, Conocimientos y capacitación.
Nuestro objetivo principal es entregar y sostenible Desarrollar tecnología para que estas
poblaciones Obtener PUEDAN sus recursos propios.
Impulsamos el desarrollo tecnológico como fuente del progreso humano. "
Visítenos en www.cruzazulinternacional.org

Doctorado y/o Maestria en el tema POBREZA Y MISERIA en una Universidad LATINOAMERICANA


Una Civilización ha alcanzado el ÉXITO,
cuándo es Capaz de estabilidad Proporcionar,
seguridad, comodidad y satisfaccion a todos quienes la componen,
Y se muestra y ademas es Capaz de
VIVIR EN COMPLETA ARMONIA CON LA NATURALEZA

Ken O "Donnel-Bhrama Kumaris-Universidad Espiritual de la India


LA PAZ ES LA CARACTERÍSTICA PRINCIPAL DE UN SOCIEDAD civilizada.
EL GRADO DE CIVILILIZACION SE MIDE POR
POR LA CALIDAD DE LA CONCIENCIA COLECTIVA
DE CADA UNO DE SUS MIEMBROS.

Bhrama-Kumaris Universidad Espiritual

NO TRATES DE SER UN HOMBRE DE EXITO,
SINO, POR EL CONTRARIO,
SE UN HOMBRE DE VALOR PARA LA SOCIEDAD.

Albert Einstein

Saludos de este Mensajero de Paz y de amor
Ghers Zonensain
Director
Correo electrónico. noearca14@gmail.com
--
--
Arca. Noe-Proyecto Internacional de Paz para la mejora de la amistad, armonía y cooperación entre todos los países del mundo.
PAZ PAZ-PACO-PACE-PAIX-SHALOM-SALAAM-SHANTY-SELAM VREDE-PAKE - Hetep-Rahu - ASHTE - IRINI - Heiwa - Sulh - MIR
PHYONGH'WA - EMIREMBE - PACI - FRED - Sula - Pokoj - PASCH - Miers-UKUTHULA
en todo el mundo.
--
.
Comment by Jurgen Brul on May 24, 2010 at 12:19am
Dear friends,

We Need to Take Good Care of Our Environment
IF WE MAKE GOD BLEED
THERE WILL BE BLOOD IN THE WATER!

For More Information go to and Click on:
BLOOD IN THE WATER!
STILL BLOOD IN THE WATER!


Advice
Let us NOW make our world
a Better Healthier and Beautiful World
for You and for Me!

For More Information go to and Click on:
SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT


Please give this message to family and friends, so that
the world becomes a Better Healthier and Beautiful World
for You and for Me!

Greetings,
Jurgen R. Brul
Comment by Grace Eagle Reed on May 17, 2010 at 8:37pm
Well, we humans on Earth Mother not only tolerate poverty we accept it. If we (global one) would step up and prioritize our politics poverty and all its ghoulish children would disappear. I heard a talk by Ron Sims one of the heads of present government HUD housing talk about the acceptance of poverty. The key seems to be that global one thing. Until human lower nature ego is smashed and replaced with spirit ego we are going to be in this earth hell. So---lots of work ahead for those that get it. Thanks for all your effort. Grace Eagle
Comment by Clicia Pavan on May 17, 2010 at 5:34pm

Children are the future of nations The world of tomorrow will be like the adults treat children

Los niños son el futuro de las naciones
El mundo de mañana será como los adultos tratan a los niños
Clicia Pavan
Namaste

Comment by Jurgen Brul on April 11, 2010 at 11:36pm
Dear friends,

We Need to Stop Teen Violence Now!

For More Information go to and Click on:
TEEN VIOLENCE TODAY!


Conclusion
OUR HEALTH IS IMPORTANT!

For More Information go to and Click on:
KIDS EDUCATIONAL GAMES
PRESENT GAMES


Advice
Let us NOW make our world
a Better Healthier and Beautiful World!

For More Information go to and Click on:
HELP OUR WORLD
HELP OUR CHILDREN


Please give this message to family and friends, so that
our world becomes a Better Healthier and Beautiful World
for You and for Me!

Greetings,
Jurgen R. Brul
Comment by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on March 15, 2010 at 4:08pm
@Lynn...are they meant for poverty...
Comment by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on February 26, 2010 at 1:06pm
Dear Diana is there any relation of poverty with your posting...
Comment by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on February 23, 2010 at 4:32pm
It is fine Emma...but it must not land into exploiting poor...that is exactly happens...third world becomes source of out sourcing for cheap labor and condition of poor further goes down...
Comment by GOPI KANTA GHOSH on January 29, 2010 at 5:34pm
Thanks Motter
 

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