BostonAnne
Refugee
Eliminating poverty...
Eliminating Aids & Debt and allowing trade...
Giving 800 million people a chance to receive the basic care that we do - that is NOT CHARITY. These 800 million people deserve a chance to live. They deserve running water, food, an education and health care.
To pull out what I posted in another thread:
If you haven't already, please check out the intro to "Make Poverty History" campaign.
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/
After the intro, please notice the first thing that is mentioned.
We don't want your money.
Then, please note all of the organizations that have banded together to run this campaign. They scroll by on the bottom right corner. World Vision, Unicef, Christian Aid, and Save the Children are there to name a few. I bet you recognize more. All of these organizations do accept donations and do great things with the money they collected - but they are banding together to say that it isn't enough.
Charitable donations aren't what is needed to solve the problem. The issues need to be resolved at a government level to bring about change. Sending money to the individual organizations isn't making the difference.
And while I respect all of your rights to keep your charitable donations private - your voice is needed in this effort for justice.
we want you to repeatedly make it clear that 30,000 people dying unnecessarily each and every day from extreme poverty, is absolutely and totally unacceptable.
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?
Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Eliminating Aids & Debt and allowing trade...
Giving 800 million people a chance to receive the basic care that we do - that is NOT CHARITY. These 800 million people deserve a chance to live. They deserve running water, food, an education and health care.
To pull out what I posted in another thread:
If you haven't already, please check out the intro to "Make Poverty History" campaign.
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/
After the intro, please notice the first thing that is mentioned.
We don't want your money.
Then, please note all of the organizations that have banded together to run this campaign. They scroll by on the bottom right corner. World Vision, Unicef, Christian Aid, and Save the Children are there to name a few. I bet you recognize more. All of these organizations do accept donations and do great things with the money they collected - but they are banding together to say that it isn't enough.
Charitable donations aren't what is needed to solve the problem. The issues need to be resolved at a government level to bring about change. Sending money to the individual organizations isn't making the difference.
And while I respect all of your rights to keep your charitable donations private - your voice is needed in this effort for justice.
we want you to repeatedly make it clear that 30,000 people dying unnecessarily each and every day from extreme poverty, is absolutely and totally unacceptable.
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?
Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die