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 Bobbi Miller-Moro on March 20, 2009 at 5:14am: Mumbai woman living in the slums. Photography by babasteve

Nail salon photo by moPolitician

'Our World' Photo Exhibit.
Designed by Bobbi Miller Moro
Women Without Borders US

'Our World' Photo exhibit brings awareness and enlightenment to viewers around the world.
We appreciate the abundance and wealth in our world, united with the realities of war, poverty, abuse and disregard towards our fellow human.
Ideally you will discover new actions that make a difference in the lives of our human family. May everyone enjoy the same privileges and quality of life experience in our life time.
Women Without Borders US

See these images on posters

Comment by Spiral !mpact on February 27, 2009 at 10:20pm: Please go ALL-IN. This is, auspiciously, coming from Phoenix. The mythical phoenix bird has a 1,000 year life-cycle, and near the end the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises.
The new phoenix is destined to live, usually, as long as the old one. 1,000 years of peace....Imagine That! Online, we will collaborate and do the work that allows for peace.

View my page on All In Campaign to Transform Poverty to Sufficiency for All

Comment by Zen40woman on February 20, 2009 at 6:10am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDf8Z-lErTw
Please listen this messsage until the end
It's about making povrety a history
I 'm sure you'r be moved by as i was.
Paece Love & Serenity
Zen.

Comment by Ole A. Seifert on February 1, 2009 at 4:44am: I hope you all will join me in the group Basic Income Guarantee. Our new way of social and economical structur to end poverty!

You´ll find similar groups in other networks, Join them! so that we´ll be seen, also by the politicians.

Peace, joy & Love
Ole

Comment by Yao Panthamor on January 28, 2009 at 7:39pm: In my eyes, our system of economics is responsible for the large, and growing, gap between rich and poor. The rich get easily richer and the poor poorer.

This disparity is inherent to capitalism. So, as long as the majority of people are satisfied with what they got they wont revolt.

Problem is capitalism creates extreme wealth for the few, (extreme) poverty for many, but relative wealth for the majority.
So it is that majority of people that we need to reach to bring about change, thing is that they don't need to revolt for themselves, but for the good of someone else. And that's where the problem is.

To mobilize people for a problem essentially not their own.

P&L

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 20, 2009 at 9:16pm: Soñar y realizar,que se unirá a la corriente de la paz,todos juntos para un mundo más justo
Y cuando el sueño se renueva
la sublime despertar de la oración
en los espacios en la individualidad
Linda blanca rosa
orientar caminos de la verdad
Clicia Pavan

Oración por Mahatma Gandhi
Señor,
Ayúdame a decir la verdad ante los fuertes y no decir mentiras para ganar el aplauso de los débiles.
Si se me de la fortuna, no soy el derecho neumáticos.
Si el éxito de mí, no me cansa la humildad.
Si se me de la humildad, me cansa la dignidad.
Me ayudan a ver la otra cara de la moneda, no acusar al otro de traición a los demás, no sólo para pensar como yo.
Me enseñan a amar a los otros como yo.
No quiero hacerlo orgulloso triunfo, ni caer en la desesperación si fracaso.
Pero me recuerda que el fracaso es la experiencia que precede al triunfo.
Me enseñan a perdonar es un signo de grandeza y que la venganza es un signo de humillación.
Si no me dan el éxito de las fuerzas a aprender del fracaso.
Si la gente me ofende, dame valor para perdonar y si me he ofendido a la gente, para mí la magnitud perdónalos.
Señor, si me olvido de ti, nunca me olvides.

Comment by Magda Madkour's Page: Be Peace on January 20, 2009 at 3:35pm: Thanks for accepting me in your group:-)

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 14, 2009 at 5:29pm: In January, to cite just one example, the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, launched an appeal in the amount of 77 million dollars to help provide food to more than 2.5 million people are in a desperate situation due to the increase prices. In doing so, drew attention to an alarming fact: in Afghanistan, an average family now spends 45% of its income on food, compared with 11% in 2006.

This is the new face of hunger, increasingly affecting communities. And as is inevitable, is the poorest billion people, those living on one dollar or less per day, which are hardest affected.

Families who could pay before a nutritious diet have been forced to eat only one food base and reduce the number of meals per day

When people are so poor and inflation leads to erosion of their meager incomes in general are one of two things: either buy less food or buy food cheaper and less nutritious. The end result is the same: more hunger and less opportunities for a future with health. According to the World Food Program (WFP) of the United Nations, before families who could pay a varied diet and nutrition have been forced to eat only one food base and reduce the number of meals from three to two or one per day.

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 14, 2009 at 5:16pm: Of all our problems, hunger is the most hits our collective consciousness. We know that much could be done to avoid the scenes with which we face in the corners of our homes, or to eliminate scenes of African countries where the people literally die of hunger.
In these situations lacked willingness of governments and companies to resolve this barbarity, approaching a holocaust when viewed in the dimensions of a continent like Africa.

Comment by Muhammad Khurshid on January 14, 2009 at 2:06pm: Salaam to all my dear friends,
Today I am very happy after reaching to this group. I have been living in Bajaur Agency, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border. By profession I am a journalist, but nowadays I have been working for peace in my areas as war on terror is being fought in our areas. We have lost all the things in war as so far more than 3000 people have been killed in the fighting and half a million people have been migrated to other parts of Pakistan.
Today I want to pray for all you. You have been doing a good job. Just accept my thanks and gratitude. Accept thanks and gratitude from my wife Fatima. We all are praying for peace and happiness.
Thank you very much