Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty

Oct
2008

Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty

Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens. ~ Wikipedia

I don’t really have the words for a post on poverty. I believe some photos will say more than I ever could.

What can you do to help? Visit ONE.org

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4 Responses to Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty

thanks for using your blog and taking the time to raise awareness for the reality of poverty. good for you.

i hope it encourages your readers to donate to a charity of their choosing.

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by becoming minimalist on October 15th, 2008 at 9:47 AM

striking photos.

for my part, i turn to sites like freerice, kiva, and goodsearch, as ways to help alleviate poverty online.

saw this post via the front page of blog action day. it’s great that you’re participating.

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by kouji haiku on October 15th, 2008 at 10:46 AM

What can we do to help? How can we solve this? How can we make others’ lives better?
This is what we need to be asking.
Do a food drive–make food baskets and send them to homeless shelters. Donate some money.
Something!
<3

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by Tabby on October 15th, 2008 at 3:29 PM

Great post and striking pictures indeed.

My thoughts on poverty…

*Excess used improperly is the demise of a nation. The idea of excess for the few perpetuates poverty for the many. A scarcity consciousness is a product of white privilege and excess.*

Just google poverty and dozens and dozens of images are people of color, women of color and children.

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by Cecelia on October 17th, 2008 at 1:01 PM