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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.” – Eli Khamarov
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“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.” – Eli Khamarov
What is Poverty?
Imagine not having money to buy yourself a loaf of bread. Imagine having to scrounge in dustbins for leftover food. Imagine watching your loved ones die due to lack of food or clean drinking water. Imagine a whole family sleeping on road in a harsh winter because they cannot afford shelter.
Hard, isn’t it? Poverty exists. Poverty knows no borders, no religion, no caste, no colour, no creed, no gender, no age. As per the World Bank, “extreme poverty” is defined as a condition in which people live on less than US $1 per day. In 2001, approximately 1.1 billion people around the globe were living in conditions of extreme poverty. With exploding population levels and diminishing natural resources, poverty is bound to rise.
But why should all this bother us?
Because the effects of poverty are far and widespread. Increasing poverty leads to increasing crime rates, as poor people are forced out onto the streets, and are willing to resort to dubious means to feed themselves. Increasing poverty leads to an increase in crime and substance abuse. Increasing poverty means that young people can no longer educate themselves, no longer earn a steady income to support their families. Increasing poverty means increasing homelessness, increasing unemployment, a general decrease in the living conditions of society and increased probability of death by contracting lethal diseases like Cholera, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS or Malaria. On other side, Poverty creates unrest among the masses, it destroys our social fibre and it shows us how weak we still are as humans? And how fragile and weak our social structure is?
How can we help?
Raise awareness about poverty. Encourage your family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers, bosses, teachers, classmates to join Poverty without Borders, a non profit organisation created for the sole purpose of helping those 800 million people around the globe who go to sleep hungry. Our immediate goals are to save the dying from a starvation-caused death; our long term goals will be to donate to worldwide charities, which will in turn help open schools for poor children, and help find the homeless suitable jobs so that they can get back on their feet.
We believe poverty can only be fixed by long term sustained effort and we welcome you to join and support us in this united effort towards eradicating poverty. Your help and support brings us one step closer to our goals.
Imagine this: One dollar can buy 4 children a square meal in third world countries. Just one dollar!
Together we can make a difference and we will.
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Comment by Chin Kaji Shrestha on August 17, 2010 at 4:40am - hello I am chin Kaji Shrestha from Nepal. I am leadding one poor children project . so any body join to help poor children in Nepal......................
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Comment by Virginia Lawrence on March 27, 2010 at 6:03am
- I don't have to imagine any of this discussion .. have a good day.
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Comment by RAFAEL PABLO MOLINA FERNANDO on August 14, 2009 at 1:27am - Poverty robs a person of the most basic power inherent in every human being, and that is: THE POWER TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND THOSE WE LOVE. At Integral Transformation Group, Inc., we believe that "DEVELOPMENT, TO BE AUTHENTIC, MUST START FROM WITHIN THE HEARTS OF MEN; ONLY THROUGH A NEW MIND CAN HUMANITY REMAKE ITSELF AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH A NEW MIND IS NATURAL."
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Comment by roger pholo mvumbi on May 13, 2009 at 3:53pm - from my country D.R.CONGO we are facing many problems of poverty so we are in a great need of partners to solve those many problems.as a president of a recognised ngo i am looking to get connected to partners and friends and see how to help my rural community.ROGER PHOLO.00243-998218472.
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Comment by Umashankar Sahu on January 27, 2009 at 2:42am - Poverty is not just lacking resources rather its closly related to dignity too. The discrimination in existing social, economic, political and cultural structure is the root causes of poverty which offen deprived the marginalised communities to equally access and control the resouces. So poverty reduction need multi-dimensional approaches
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Comment by Gottlieb Keller on January 25, 2009 at 3:20pm -
Welcome to everybody in these group. I am looking forward to work with you on this very important issues.
All the best
Gottlieb W. Keller
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Comment by Ram Bahadur Raut on December 28, 2008 at 6:40pm
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Although Nepal is very beautiful country, but it is under developing.more than 42 are below the poverty line. So we must work in these country.we are working against the poverty. But we do not cover the whole so We need more helping hand for deduct it.
More than twelve years we had suffered from arm conflict,it also support to create this situation .
So how we do better work in here?
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Comment by SPHP GLOBAL NETWORK on December 22, 2008 at 2:13pm -
For ALL members of this Group:
A Blessed Christmas and A Peaceful New Year for you and your loved ones!
May there be time in 2009 for us to be able to work together in trying to make Planet Earth a better place for our humankind and all the rest of the other living organisms, sentient and otherwise, as close as possible to the enigmatic, seemingly unfathomable design and purpose of the Infinite Supreme Being.
Peace be with us,
JM Nepomuceno
Site Administrator
SPHP GLOBAL NETWORK
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Comment by Lena Mikhaylova on November 25, 2008 at 2:41pm -
Dear everyone!
I'm a member of the non-commercial organization /creative collective called Loesje. One of our latest projects (“Picture Your Rights”) was devoted to the theme of Human rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was an on-line competition where people could upload the photos on the topic and propose slogans. The results of this competition materialized in a form of 10 double-sided posters with different photos, texts and opinions on the topic of human rights.
This project is a human rights info campaign, so now we printed 50.000 posters and send them to people for personal use, for exhibitions, for placing them in libraries, schools, offices and other places where people can see them.
If you want to get a free package with the posters for your organization or just for yourself – you're welcome to order them at books@loesje.org.
Thank you!
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Comment by Robert Mills on November 13, 2008 at 10:12am -
2008 is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th anniversary. It's time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us as one human family. But it can also be a time when each of us chooses to take human rights into our daily lives, by joining a powerful people network.
Just months ago, EHHR campaign partner Internews called on journalists and citizen journalists all around the world to submit their best work to the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards. They received 482 applications, with stories from 108 countries and on November 1st, Internews announced the 30 winners.
Read more at http://www.everyhumanhasrights.org/
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