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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

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Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 17, 2009 at 1:23pm
God has compassion for abandoned children around the world
Eradication of Poverty, Saturday 17 October
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 9:33pm

Children are the future of nations The world of tomorrow will be like the adults treat children
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 9:31pm

Eradication of Poverty, Saturday 17 October Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 9:27pm

"Remember the poorest people you know, the beings that you've seen more abandoned. Ask if the act or that you plan your way of life is somehow beneficial to them. If, in things you find to God. "Gandhi Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 9:23pm
God has compassion for abandoned children around the world
Eradication of Poverty, Saturday 17 October
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 8:30pm

Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre 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 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
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 16, 2009 at 8:14pm

Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre Investments in children and the realization of their rights are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty.”*
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 14, 2009 at 7:24pm
Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre
African countries are leading Global Hunger Index 2009
The president of Welthungerhilfe, Bärbel Dieckmann, said that 1 billion people hungry worldwide, mostly women and children
Berlin, Oct 14 (EFE) .- African countries continue to lead the Global Hunger Index 2009 released today in Berlin by German Welthungerhilfe and by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, in English), which highlights the Women are most affected by malnutrition and poverty.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone and Chad, in that order, are the countries with the rate of hunger more acute, with more than 30% of the population consists of people with serious problems of malnutrition.
The president of Welthungerhilfe, Bärbel Dieckmann, said that 1 billion people hungry worldwide, mostly women and children.
According to Dieckmann, 70% of the 1.4 billion poor in the world are women, and noted that, in places where women are disadvantaged, hunger is greatest.
In areas where lead to the household economy and influence and recognition in the community, women and their children have better nutrition, said the German specialist, who urged developed countries to take this into account.
"Enhancing the role of women is crucial in the fight against hunger and poverty," said Dieckmann, for whom "the politics of development aid can not be a continuation of a policy of state interests through other means."
The report submitted by two humanitarian organizations noted that in 29 countries around the world, all of them African or Asian, with the exception of Haiti, the famine is very serious and disturbing, but in Asia, have been reported since 1990 considerable progress in the fight against malnutrition.
The index considers that hunger is a serious problem in Nicaragua and moderate in the Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia and Paraguay.
The index prepared by the two humanitarian organizations from Germany and the United States was prepared with current data of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO, its acronym in English) and the World Food Program (WFP, its acronym in English) said that 1.02 billion people - about 100 million more than last year - are malnourished in 2009, the most in decades.
"The rise in the number of hungry people is intolerable," said the director general of FAO, Jacques Diouf, for the release of the annual report on world hunger. "We have the technical and economic means to make the hunger disappear, is missing is a stronger political will to eradicate hunger forever, "disse.O increase in the number of hungry people is not the result of problems in agricultural production, but the high food prices - particularly in developing countries - less income and job losses.
Even before the recent food crisis and economic recession, the number of undernourished people has grown steadily for a decade, reversing the progress made in the 1980s and early 1990s. Last year the WFP amounted to 5 billion dollars the amount needed to feed the poor, at a time when food prices between 2006 and 2008 led to violent protests in some países.Até far this year, the agency received 2, 9 billion and reduced the ration of food and its operations in places like Kenya and Bangladesh.
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Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 11, 2009 at 2:48pm

Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre Investments in children and the realization of their rights
are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty.”*
Namaste
Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 10, 2009 at 5:58pm

By distrust that has a leading terrorist, 2000.00 are innocent refugees, amputees, starving children, disease ... God has compassion for the innocent, they did nothing ... Peace is not only to media sites and not talking peace, the reality is unmasked, raw and naked truth --- The innocent refugees who have nowhere to flee, Asia, Africa, throughout the world, this morning I went to visit a nursery, as the government failed to pass the budget, had nothing to eat, 200 children afflicted with AIDS --- I went into the largest super market and ask for a kilo of food as a gift, I took a video and showed cheche and because of hunger, neglect only that --- Here's a holiday picture of the day the children -- God has compassion for abandoned children around the world (note of thanks to the hyper market network that donated food to the nursery for 5 days, God will give you back double, thanks
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por la desconfianza que tiene un líder terrorista, 2000,00 refugiados inocentes, los amputados, los niños mueren de hambre, la enfermedad ... Dios tiene compasión por los inocentes, no hicieron nada ... La paz no es sólo a sitios de medios y no hablando de paz, la realidad es desenmascarado, cruda y desnuda verdad --- Los refugiados inocentes que no tienen a donde huir, Asia, África, todo el mundo, esta mañana fui a visitar un vivero, ya que el gobierno no pudo aprobar el presupuesto, no tenía nada para comer, 200 niños enfermos de SIDA --- Entré en el mayor mercado de super y pedir un kilo de alimentos como un regalo, me tomé un video y demostró turbante y por el hambre, el abandono que sólo --- Aquí hay una foto de vacaciones del día de los niños --
Dios tiene compasión por los niños abandonados en todo el mundo
(nota de agradecimiento a la red de mercado hiper de que los alimentos donados a la guardería durante 5 días, Dios le va a devolver el doble, gracias
Clicia Pavan
Namaste
 

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