Eradication of Poverty

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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

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Comment by Clicia Pavan on September 3, 2009 at 3:37pm: In the rush to secure profits, there is a worldwide trend, under the capitalist mode of production, to privatize everything, especially seeds. Less than a dozen corporations control the seed market in the world. Introduced GMO seeds do not reproduce in crops and need to be increasingly bought with high profits for companies. The purchase of seeds is part of a larger package that includes technology, pesticides, machinery and banking, and tying the producers to the interests of agri-transnational corporations.
Basically, what really matters is ensuring gains for business people and less food. If there is a reversal in the order of things, this is an economy subject to the policy, a policy guided by ethics and an ethic inspired by a minimum humanitarian sensibility, there is no solution to world hunger and malnutrition. Continue in barbarism that stigmatizes the current process of globalization. The heartbreaking cries of millions of hungry continually rise to heaven without effective responses to them come from somewhere to silence this clamor. It's time for humanitarian compassion translated into global policy to combat systematic starvation.
Hunger in the camps, in large plantations.
The people do not know which is the reason people do not have bread.
The government has big projects .................
But hunger? This is not over
The belly growling
Moments of total exhaustion, loneliness.
Concentration camps, camps running.
How to plant a flower in the midst of such desolation?
Children crying from hunger, empty pots, empty bellies
meaningless life ...
How to look at the stars, if what I feel is only sadness?
"For God hath not given us a spirit of cowardice
But of power, of love and moderation "
Because so much failure?
"Verily I say unto you, when ye
one of these my brethren, you did for me. " (Matthew 25:40)
Clicia Pavan
Verily I say unto you, when you did it to one of these my brethren, you did for me. " (Matthew 25:40)
"I was hungry and you gave me to eat," said Jesus embodied in the person of the poor. Fighting hunger is an evangelical demand an ethical imperative, a duty of citizenship and solidarity, so that humanity can take this pre-history in which billions of people still are not guaranteed the right most elementary animal - eating .* Frei Betto
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En la carrera para obtener beneficios, hay una tendencia mundial, en el modo de producción capitalista, de privatizar todo, especialmente las semillas. Menos de una docena de empresas controlan el mercado de semillas en el mundo. Las semillas OMG introducidos no se reproducen en los cultivos y la necesidad de ser cada vez más comprados con altos beneficios para las empresas. La compra de las semillas es parte de un paquete más amplio que incluye la tecnología, los pesticidas, la maquinaria y la banca, y la vinculación de los productores a los intereses de los agro-empresas transnacionales.

Básicamente, lo que realmente importa es garantizar ganancias para los empresarios y menos alimentos. Si hay un cambio en el orden de las cosas, esta es una economía sujeta a la política, una política guiada por la ética y una ética inspirada por una sensibilidad humanitaria mínima, no hay solución para el hambre y la malnutrición. Continuar en la barbarie que estigmatiza al actual proceso de globalización. Los gritos desgarradores de millones de hambrientos aumentan continuamente al cielo sin respuestas eficaces a ellos vienen de algún lugar para silenciar a este clamor. Es hora de compasión humanitaria traducido en la política global de lucha contra el hambre sistemática.
El hambre en los campamentos, en las grandes plantaciones.
La gente no sabe que es la razón de personas no tienen pan.
El gobierno tiene grandes proyectos .................
Pero el hambre? Esto no ha terminado
El rugido del vientre
Momentos de agotamiento total, la soledad.
Los campos de concentración, campos de ejecución.
Cómo plantar una flor en medio de tanta desolación?
Los niños lloraban de hambre, ollas vacías, estómagos vacíos
vida sin sentido ...
Cómo mirar las estrellas, si lo que siento es sólo tristeza?
"Porque no nos ha dado Dios espíritu de cobardía
Sino de poder, de amor y de moderación "
Debido a que tantos fracasos?
"En verdad os digo a vosotros, cuando os
uno de estos mis humildes hermanos, conmigo lo hicieron. "(Mateo 25:40)
Clicia Pavan
En verdad os digo, cuando lo hiciste a uno de estos mis humildes hermanos, conmigo lo hicieron. "(Mateo 25:40)
"Tuve hambre y me disteis de comer", dijo Jesús encarnado en la persona de los pobres. Combatir el hambre es una exigencia evangélica de un imperativo ético, un deber de la ciudadanía y la solidaridad, de modo que la humanidad pueda aprovechar esta pre-historia en la que miles de millones de personas todavía no tienen garantizado el más elemental derecho de los animales - comer .* Frei Betto
Love,love,peace,hope
Namaste

Comment by Clicia Pavan on September 1, 2009 at 5:11pm: International Day Of Peace September 21, 2009
There is no way to peace, peace is the way
Gandhi
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God-Matthew 5:9.
Prince of Peace"Jesus is the messenger of peace
Peace is not absence of conflict but the ability to resolve conflicts without hate
Jesus said: "I leave you peace, my peace I give you.

Día Internacional de la Paz 21 de septiembre 2009
No hay camino hacia la paz, la paz es el camino
Gandhi
Bienaventurados los pacificadores, porque ellos serán llamados hijos de Dios-Mateo 5:9.
Príncipe de Paz "Jesús es el mensajero de la paz
La paz no es ausencia de conflicto sino la capacidad de resolver los conflictos sin odio
Jesús dijo: "La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy."

Comment by Warren Jeffrey Motter on August 27, 2009 at 12:19am: It's time to light a "candle" under the butt of every American Congressman, telling all of them that WE ALL DESERVE THE HEALTH CARE THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES RECEIVE, N-O-W!!!!!!!!!

Comment by SILVANA on August 16, 2009 at 7:36am: Justiça a existência da pobreza...É inadimissível em pleno século XXI,vermos pessoas a morrerem de fome e sede...A pobreza ainda existe,por causa da pobreza de espírito dos seres pobres de espírito...Qualquer atitude é válida.

Comment by SILVANA on August 16, 2009 at 7:31am: </ p>

Comment by tim max on August 2, 2009 at 2:51am: A HUGS FOR ALL

Comment by Jurgen Brul on July 15, 2009 at 5:32pm: Dear friends,

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Conclusion
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OUR HEALTH IS IMPORTANT!

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

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 Kalsi : We are all one . on July 1, 2009 at 6:57pm: dear friends greetings let us share our eatings/belongings with our poor friends as we share our thoughts with each other.thanks and regards.

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