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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……
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.
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Comment by Clicia Pavan on October 9, 2009 at 4:04am
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Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre "
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"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
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"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
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Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre
Fronteira do Zimbábue--2009
Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa,see the results of the conflict, who are responsible, lords of war who sell weapons? forming military bases around the world - Gandhi was right - eye for an eye and the whole world blind - who is right? Who uses the weapons or who retaliates? Zimbabwe is affected by a long political and economic crisis, with the annual inflation rate of around 231 million percent
crisis has forced millions of Zimbabweans to flee to neighboring countries. Many fled political repression, while others preferred to escape the effects of the collapse of economic and financial system of the country. Most of the refugees have sought to South Africa as host country. The Yohana Andrade then presents a reverse report sent by our correspondent in the region, Bob Scott, who visited the camp at Musina, South Africa
Children, visible women, innocent people - hunger, abandonment, neglect, omission, this is one of the greatest violence against human beings --- as shown in the video - in 2009 these scenes happen in the world --- hunger, Agnes Moyo led son of six months to the center after crossing the border with her husband and two other children. She says he left his country because of Robert Mugabe supporters beat his father: "I just can not go back to Zimbabwe. I can not because I have terrible consequences, so I can not go back there."
There is little food, and the refugees sleep in the open. And a difficult task. But they maintain hope and skills to survive. Whatever the reasons for having fled from Zimbabwe, there is virtually no reason to return.
I was hungry and you gave me food, "said Jesus incarnate in the person of the poor. Fighting hunger is a requirement of an ethical gospel, the duty of citizenship and solidarity, so that humanity can take this pre - history in which billions of people still do not have guaranteed the most basic right of animals - eating .* Frei Betto
I am against violence because it seems to do well, but the good is only temporary, the evil it does is that it is permanent. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Los refugiados de Zimbabwe en Sudáfrica, ver los resultados del conflicto, que son responsables, los señores de la guerra que venden armas? la formación de bases militares en todo el mundo - Gandhi tenía razón - ojo por ojo y el mundo entero ciego - que tiene la razón? ¿Quién utiliza las armas o que tome represalias? Zimbabwe está afectada por una crisis política y económica de largo, con la tasa de inflación anual de alrededor de 231 millones por ciento
la crisis ha forzado a millones de zimbabuenses a huir a países vecinos. Muchos huyeron de la represión política, mientras que otros prefirieron escapar a los efectos del colapso del sistema económico y financiero del país. La mayoría de los refugiados han tratado de Sudáfrica como país anfitrión. El Yohana Andrade presenta un informe enviado por invertir nuestro corresponsal en la región, Bob Scott, quien visitó el campamento de Musina, Sudáfrica
Los niños, las mujeres visibles, personas inocentes - el hambre, el abandono, la negligencia, omisión, esta es una de las mayores violencias contra los seres humanos --- como se muestra en el video - en 2009, estas escenas ocurren en el mundo --- hambre, Agnes Moyo hijo lo llevó de seis meses para el centro después de cruzar la frontera con su esposo y sus otros dos niños. Ella dice que él salió de su país a causa de los partidarios de Robert Mugabe golpearon a su padre: "No puedo volver a Zimbabwe. Yo no puedo porque tienen consecuencias terribles, así que no puedo volver allí".
Hay poca comida, y los refugiados duermen a la intemperie. Y una tarea difícil. Pero mantener la esperanza y las habilidades para sobrevivir. Cualesquiera sean las razones por haber huido de Zimbabwe, que prácticamente no hay razón para regresar.
Tuve hambre y me disteis de comer ", dijo Jesús encarnado en la persona de los pobres. Combatir el hambre es una exigencia del evangelio de una ética, el derecho de la ciudadanía y la solidaridad, de modo que la humanidad pueda aprovechar esta pre - historia en la que miles de millones de de personas todavía no tienen garantizado el derecho más básico de los animales - comer .* Frei Betto
Estoy en contra de la violencia, porque parece hacerlo bien, pero el bien es sólo temporal, el mal que hace es que es permanente. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Clicia Pavan
Namaste
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The hunger and abandonment caused by war is the largest manmade holocaust caused While their leaders only think of arms and conflict...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.Verily I say unto you, when you did it to one of these my brethren, you did for me. " (Matthew 25:40) Clicia Pavan
"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
Namaste
El hambre y el abandono causado por la guerra es el más grande holocausto causado por el hombre mientras que sus líderes sólo piensan en armas y el conflicto ... En la carrera para obtener beneficios, hay una tendencia mundial, en el marco del modo de producción capitalista, de privatizar todo, especialmente 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 que incluye la tecnología, los pesticidas, la maquinaria y la banca, y la vinculación de los productores a los intereses de la agroindustria transnacional corporations.Verily os digo, cuando lo hiciste a uno de estos mis hermanos más pequeños, que hiciste por mí. "(Mateo 25:40)
Clicia Pavan
"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
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Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre "Lembre-se das pessoas mais pobres que você conhece, dos seres que você já viu mais abandonados. Pergunte se o ato que você planeja ou o seu modo de viver é de algum modo proveitoso para essas pessoas. Se for, nesses atos você encontrará a Deus".Gandhi
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"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
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Fome e pobreza extrema é uma forma de violência cometida contra os seres humanos--Stop
Namaste
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Erradicación de la Pobreza, 17 de octubre Namaste
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17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Hunger and extreme poverty is a form of violence against humans
"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 so,these acts will find God.
Gandhi
Throughout his life, Gandhi demonstrated that to fight injustice, the supporters
of non-violence must resist and refuse to cooperate.
He was spokesman for the struggle for human rights and against racism,intolerance and violence,hunger.
Clicia Pavan
Eradication of Poverty, Saturday 17 October
The citizens of South Asia, representatives of civil societies from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, met in the Third General Assembly of the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication in Kathmandu from 8 to 9 August 2009. This Declaration represents the collective will of the members present to work against neo-liberalism. We embrace sustainable development for the definitive eradication of poverty and the betterment of the lives of all people in the region, particularly those living in poverty and without rights, those suffering injustice and the effects of conflict and discrimination.
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17 de octubre Día Internacional para la Erradicación de la Pobreza
El hambre y la pobreza extrema es una forma de violencia contra los seres humanos
"Recuerda a los más pobres ya sabes, los seres que has visto más abandonados.
Pregunte si el acto o que tiene previsto su forma de vida es de alguna manera beneficioso para ellos.
Si es así, estos actos se encuentra a Dios.
Gandhi
A lo largo de su vida, Gandhi demostró que para luchar contra la injusticia, los partidarios de
de la no violencia debe resistir y negarse a cooperar.
Fue vocero de la lucha por los derechos humanos y contra el racismo, la intolerancia y la violencia, el hambre.
Clicia Pavan
Erradicación de la Pobreza, el sábado 17 de octubre
Los ciudadanos del sur de Asia, los representantes de la sociedad civil de Afganistán, Bangladesh, Bhután, India, Maldivas, Nepal, Pakistán y Sri Lanka, se reunió en la Tercera Asamblea General de la Alianza de Asia Meridional para la Erradicación de la Pobreza en Katmandú del 8-9 agosto 2009. Esta Declaración representa la voluntad colectiva de los miembros presentes para trabajar contra el neo-liberalismo. Nos abrazamos de desarrollo sostenible para la erradicación definitiva de la pobreza y el mejoramiento de las vidas de todos los pueblos de la región, especialmente los que viven en la pobreza y sin derechos, los que sufren la injusticia y los efectos de los conflictos y la discriminación.
Namaste
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Comment by Huri Cinar on October 5, 2009 at 11:42pm
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Hey leaders in power
Don't hide under cover
You have plenty of eats
Stop fighting for power seats.
Listen to us and hear
What we say is clear
We are the voice of the needy
Stop being greedy.
We are the future generation
Thoughtful and reflective
We are global citizens
Sensitive and creative.
We cry out instantly
Let's kill global hunger
Before it does murder
Our kindness and humanity..
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