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 January 13, 2009 at 10:35pm: situation needs to be addressed, because a hungry person is not a free person. But we must, first, to know the causes that lead to hunger. Many believe that the know, but do not realize that when they speak of them, are limited, often to repeat what many have said and pointing causes that have nothing to do with the real problem. For example:
Hunger is caused because the world can not produce enough food. Not true! The earth has enough resources to feed the whole humanity.

Hunger is due to the fact that we are "other." Nor is it true! There are very populous countries such as China, where all people have, every day, at least a minimum amount of food and very little populated countries such as Bolivia, where the poor really suffer from hunger!

In the world there is little arable land! It is not true. For now, there is sufficient land which, unfortunately, are grown, often to feed the rich!

The real causes

The causes of hunger in the world are many, can not be reduced to one. Among those listed:

The monocultures: the gross national product (GDP) of many countries depends, in many cases, only a culture, as some years ago, with Brazil, whose sole product was the export of coffee. Without alternative production, the economy of these countries largely depends on the price of the product, which is fixed in other places, and climatic conditions to ensure a good harvest.

Different conditions of exchange between different countries: some countries, former colonies, are needing more and more manufactured goods and high technology, they do not produce and whose price is set by exporting countries. The prices of raw materials, almost always the only product of exports of poor countries, are set again, the countries that matter.

Multinationals: organizations are able to perform operations that are global, thus escaping the control of national states or international organizations. They constitute a network of supranational power. They want to conquer markets, private equity investing and shifting production to where the cost of labor, energy and raw material are lower and workers' rights, limited. They control 40% of world trade and 90% of world trade of goods of primary necessity.

External debt: as the Organization for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the debt is paralyzing the ability of LDCs to import the food they need to own or to the need to develop agricultural production. The debt is contracted with private banks and international institutions such as the Monetary Fund and World Bank. To pay the interest, attempts to increase exports. In some countries, 40% of which raises with exports are spent only to pay the interest on foreign debt. The debt, unfortunately, remains unchanged or increases.

Armed conflict: the money to provide food, water, education, health and an adequate housing for all, for a year, as is the entire world spends on less than a month in the purchase of weapons. Moreover, the armed conflicts in many developing countries cause serious losses and destruction in their primary production system.

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 11, 2009 at 5:40pm: Hunger in the camps, in large plantations.
The people do not know which is the reason people do not have bread
The government has major projects
But the hunger? That does not stop, not
The belly snoring
Moments of total prostration of loneliness
Of concentration camps, the fields of application.
How to plant a flower in the midst of so much desolation?
Children crying from hunger, empty pots, empty bellies
life without direction ...
Look like the stars, is what I feel is only sadness?
"God has not given us a spirit of cowardice
But of power, of love and moderation
Because so much failure?
"In truth I tell you that, when did
to one of my little brothers, the did to me. " (Matthew 25:40)
Clicia Pavan
"I was hungry and me to eat this," said Jesus incarnated the figure of the poor. Fighting hunger is a requirement for an ethical imperative a duty of citizenship and solidarity, so that we can take the humanity of pre-history in which billions of people still do not have the right animal most basic - eat .* Frei Betto

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 11, 2009 at 4:53pm: Boy ... CliciaPavan

Boy who loose balloon, boy
who plays with pivot
boy who is not "bread"
Boy who has no ground
poor boy, you are a Christian

Boy who has a heart,
boy who does not know pray.
To look empty, empty of belly
Children without stars to gaze
with criminals as heroes.

God enlighten the paths
Of Joe, of Joãos of Marias
Of Anthony, the Anonymous
Children of the abandonment of boys

God enlighten the path
the boy who loose balloon
who plays with pivot, who has no bread
But he has a heart
But he is a Christian
they are our brothers
The future of the world

Comment by Clicia Pavan on January 11, 2009 at 4:13am: À fome nos campos,em grandes plantações.
O povo não sabe qual a é razão do povo não ter pão.
O governo tem grandes projetos.................
Mas a fome?Essa não acaba, não
A barriga roncando
Momentos de total prostração, de solidão.
De campos de concentração,de campos de execução.
Como plantar uma flor no meio de tanta desolação?
Crianças chorando de fome,panelas vazias,barrigas vazias
vida sem sentido...
Como olhar as estrelas, se o que eu sinto é só tristeza?
"Porque Deus não nos tem dado espírito de covardia
Mas de poder, de amor e de moderação "
Porque tanta omissão?
“Em verdade vos digo que, quando o fizestes
a um destes meus pequeninos irmãos, a mim o fizestes”. (Mateus 25:40)
Clicia Pavan
"Eu tive fome e me deste de comer", disse Jesus encarnado na figura do pobre. Combater a fome é uma exigência um imperativo ético, um dever de cidadania e solidariedade, para que possamos tirar a humanidade dessa pré-história em que bilhões de pessoas ainda não têm assegurado o direito animal mais elementar - comer.* Frei Betto
http://www.chamadacontrapobreza.org.br:80/
http://www.poesiasdecliciapavan.net:80/oracaoamaeterra.htm

Comment by Candle4Burma on January 10, 2009 at 2:59pm: Love and Peace to you

Comment by Helena Sousa on January 2, 2009 at 8:27pm

Comment by luisella valeri on December 31, 2008 at 7:16pm: 2009: PEACE TO ALL! WE ARE ONE!

Comment by Hanah / Raquel Nascimento on December 29, 2008 at 2:02pm: *

2009 - International Year of Natural Fibers The production of a great diversity of natural fibers produced in many countries became-if important source of income for many producers, which, therefore, have an important role in the provision of food safety, in the eradication of poverty and the contribution to achieving the objectives of development of the Millennium. The production of the wide variety of natural fibers produced in many countries has become a major source of income for many producers,

The resolution calls on the United Nations for Agriculture and Food (FAO) to coordinate the Year in collaboration with Member States, regional organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, private sector and agencies of the United Nations system. The resolution invites the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to coordinate the Year in collaboration with States, regional organizations, international and non-governmental, private sector and agencies of the United Nations system.

THE Assembly encourages all States, the agencies of the United Nations system and all other actors to promote the Year aiming to increase the awareness of the importance of natural products, in addition to invite all to make voluntary contributions ea support the International Year of Natural fibers. The Board encourages all States, the agencies of the United Nations system and all other actors to promote the Year to increase awareness of the importance of natural products, in addition to invite all to make voluntary contributions and to support the International Year of Natural fibers. Resolution of 6/189 United Nations (several languages) Organization of the United Nations for Agriculture and Food (FAO) Objectives of Development of Millennium.

Source : Unesco Brazil

2009 - Ano Internacional das Fibras Naturais

A produção de uma grande diversidade de fibras naturais produzidas em muitos países tornou-se fonte de renda importante para muitos produtores, que, assim, possuem um papel importante na provisão de segurança alimentar, na erradicação da pobreza e na contribuição para atingir os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio.

A resolução convida a Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO) a coordenar o Ano em colaboração com Estados, organizações regionais, internacionais e não-governamentais, setor privado e agências do Sistema das Nações Unidas.

A Assembléia encoraja todos os Estados, as agências do Sistema das Nações Unidas e todos os demais atores a promover o Ano visando aumentar a conscientização da importância dos produtos naturais, além de convidar todos a realizarem contribuições voluntárias e a darem apoio ao Ano Internacional das Fibras Naturais

Resolução 6/189 das Nações Unidas (várias línguas)
Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (FAO)
Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio

Fonte : Unesco Brasil

Comment by Gabriela Peret on December 29, 2008 at 5:06am: Greetings from the creators "Abrelatas Cuántico"

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For our friends with whom we share this quest ...

http://abrelatascuantico.wordpress.com/about/

The most loving hugs from our love-light.

Every time you are seeing some of the things we've put into this blog, there will be joining their hearts. We welcome the meeting here.

We have opened a new page that contains "Quantum Messages." Angel began with Kryon. This video is beautiful. "Beautiful as an angel." We recommend.

And finishing the home page "Cuánticas Meditations" and started working on a page in their history before 6 thousand years.

Everything you find this blog, have picture, sound and message. This helps each of us consciously work on understanding of who we are and expand our consciousness and make that leap. And here we are living now, we are remembering that it is an opportunity to achieve what is expected for thousands of years.

We feel it is a cosmic event and we dance. So our friends, we celebrate.

A warm-LOVE LIGHT
Gabriela and Catherine
Note: We are so sorry by our mistakes in english. Our English is very basic.

Para nuestros amigos con quienes compartimos esta búsqueda ...

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El más amoroso de nuestros abrazos de AMOR-LUZ.

Cada vez que ustedes esten viendo alguna de las cosas que hemos puesto en este blog, allí estaremos uniéndonos a sus corazones. Nosotras desde aquí celebramos el encuentro.

Hemos inaugurado una nueva página que contiene "Mensajes Cuánticos". Comenzamos con el Angel Kryon. Este video es bello. "Bello como un ángel". Se lo recomendamos.

Ya estamos terminando la página de "Meditaciones Cuánticas" y comenzamos a trabajar sobre una página de Historia mucho antes de éstos 6 mil años.

Todo lo que encuentren en este blog, tiene imagen, sonido y mensaje. Ese que ayuda a que cada uno de nosotros trabajemos conscientemente en la comprensión de quienes somos y así expandir nuestra consciencia y dar este salto. Y en este AHORA que estamos viviendo, estamos recordando que es una oportunidad para lograr lo esperado desde hace miles de años.

Nosotras sentimos que es una fiesta cósmica y estamos en la danza. Así que amigos nuestros, celebremos.

Un abrazo de AMOR-LUZ
Gabriela y Catherine

Comment by Jezebel on December 21, 2008 at 7:56pm: I don't have much financially to share with the less fortunate. Professionally I do work with the poor, the abused, the mentally ill, those who are addicted. Most of all I try to treat everyone as equals. We are all people, to be treated with respect, dignity and love. I also try to impart this on to my own daughter and to educate as many people to the truth I see every day around me and the realities of what is occurring internationally.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Thanks for having this place to come together. =)