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 30, 2009 at 2:22am: October 2 days of non-violence If the exclusion has produced misery, the union will destroy the production of misery, will produce full citizenship
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Si la exclusión se ha producido la miseria, la Unión va a destruir la producción de la miseria, producirá la plena ciudadanía

October 2 days of non-violence
Violence call hunger, neglect, abandonment '
Hunger is one the worst forms of violence
Hunger is exclusion. Of land, income, salary, education, economy, life and citizenship. When a person comes to not having enough to eat, it's because everything else you have been negado.É a modern form of retrenchment or death in life exílio.
It is people who start the day without enough to eat and comes in the night with nothing. One can imagine the picture that is the everyday to millions of human beings: the hunger for food and everything. At this point in the life of humanity is incredible that happen
No more violence against the humanity!
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2 de octubre días de la no-violencia
El hambre llamada de violencia, negligencia, abandono "
El hambre es una de las peores formas de violencia
El hambre es exclusión. De la tierra, ingreso, salario, educación, economía, la vida y la ciudadanía. Cuando una persona llega a no tener suficiente para comer, es porque todo lo demás que se han negado.É una forma moderna de reducción de personal o la muerte en la vida exílio.A
Es la gente que comienza el día sin lo suficiente para comer y viene en la noche con nada. Uno puede imaginar la imagen que es el día a día para millones de seres humanos: el hambre de alimentos y de todo. En este punto en la vida de la humanidad es increíble que esto suceda
¡No más violencia contra la humanidad!
Namaste

Comment by maryse on September 18, 2009 at 6:35am: What about promoting fair trade, giving the coffee growers what they really deserve, paying for luxuries of sugar and exotic fruits, coffee an tea what the people producing them really deserve

Comment by Clicia Pavan on September 16, 2009 at 3:30pm: UN says food aid is more low in 20 years in the world
In London --- What we will continue to do after September 21? Nations invest heavily in weapons and war, in politics, while innocent people die of hunger and pain ---- Read how can we have peace with hunger?
Food aid reached a low of 20 years, although the numbers of hunger had reached the critical level on record, said an agency of the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday.
The number of hungry people will spend 1 billion this year for the first time, said the World Food Program of the UN (WFP, its acronym in English), adding that it faces a serious decline in its budget.
So far the agency has funds of $ 2.6 billion, a budget for 2009 of 6.7 billion dollars.
"It comes at a time of great vulnerability to hunger," he said in a statement the agency.
"Millions have been affected by global financial crisis, their means to buy food are limited by high prices. In addition, unpredictable weather patterns are causing more hunger related to these conditions," said WFP.
Clicia Pavan
Namaste
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La ONU dice que la ayuda alimentaria es más bajo en 20 años en el mundo
En Londres --- Lo que vamos a seguir haciéndolo después de septiembre 21? Naciones grandes inversiones en armas y la guerra, en la política, mientras que personas inocentes mueren de hambre y el dolor ---- Lea cómo podemos tener paz con hambre?
La ayuda alimentaria alcanzó un mínimo de 20 años, aunque las cifras de hambre había alcanzado el nivel crítico de la historia, dijo que una agencia de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) el miércoles.
El número de personas que padecen hambre se pasan de 1 mil millones este año por primera vez, dijo que el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas (PMA, por sus siglas en Inglés), añadiendo que se enfrenta a una grave disminución de su presupuesto.
Hasta ahora, la agencia cuenta con fondos de $ 2,6 millones de dólares, un presupuesto para 2009 de 6,7 millones de dólares.
"Viene en un momento de gran vulnerabilidad al hambre", dijo en un comunicado de la agencia.
"Millones de personas han sido afectadas por la crisis financiera mundial, sus medios para comprar alimentos están limitadas por los altos precios. Además, los patrones climáticos impredecibles están causando más hambre relacionados con estas condiciones", dijo el PMA.
Clicia Pavan
Namaste

Comment by Patricia Araya on September 12, 2009 at 5:43pm: Iwoul like to Know if you have these information in spanish. I am the creator of RED DE ESCRITORES DE COQUIMBO, A NING PLACE OF WRITTERS AND POETS.
I FORMING A GROUP TOO RALATED WITH THE THEME POVERTY.

Patricia Araya
Poeta, escritora, difusora cultural
Creadora:
RED DE ESCRITORES DE COQUIMBO
REC, por un mundo de amor y paz
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Thank you so much for the information.

“Peace is the evening star of soul, as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart”. - Colton

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Paz E bençãos!

Comment by Robert Strzalko on September 9, 2009 at 11:27am: THIRD WORLD WOMAN

War

Poverty

Famine

Disease

Pollution

Deforestation

Overpopulation

Children sick with hunger
Famished
They lay in waste
Distended bellies
Lifeless eyes

Millions live this life
Every day
If you can call it that
It's more of a living death
That comes too slow
To a world that doesn't care
It's too preoccupied
Too easily offended

A child died today
Others will die tomorrow
Even the dirty water
In the village
Is drying up from draught

This is the world we live in
A world
Where politicians meet
And talk at international summits
As they dine and sleep
In luxurious comfort
The ice is melting
The seasons are changing
Animals
Insects
Fish and plants
Are disappearing
Becoming extinct

Sometimes
It seems as though
The world is dying
A long slow death
From centuries of war
And conquest of whatever
Seemed important at the moment

When they are through talking
And have solved nothing
More people will die
More ice will melt
More animals
Will become extinct

Where do we go from here?
When there is no clean air
Left to breathe
When there is no clean water
Left to drink
When there are no riches
Left to exploit
Will we hear their cries then?

Comment by SILVANA on September 3, 2009 at 6:24pm: </ p>

Comment by Clicia Pavan on September 3, 2009 at 4:30pm: Children are the future of nations The world of tomorrow will be like the adults treat children ----------
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Los niños son el futuro de las naciones
El mundo de mañana será como los adultos tratan a los niños ----------
Clicia Pavan
Namaste

Comment by Clicia Pavan on September 3, 2009 at 4:22pm: International Day 2009 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SPEAK OUT AGAINST POVERTY
Investments in children and the realization of their rights
are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty.”*
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Las inversiones en los niños y la realización de sus derechos
son algunas de las maneras más eficaces para erradicar la pobreza. "*