Make History in 2005
Okay, so there’s something I’ve been involved in since the start of the year, but have resisted talking about in this blog until now. Some of you are going to hate me for this (because this is the one post of the year that isn’t mildly entertaining tales of my fuckwittage), but please read it anyway…
A quarter of the world’s population (that’s about 1.6 billion people) are living in poverty.
Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty.
That’s scary, isn’t it? Doesn’t it scare you? Because it scares the hell out of me.
Now, this is a blog, not a charity, so I’m not going to ask you to give money (though of course if you want to, please do). What I am going to ask you to do is click on the banner on the top right of this page, and go to http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/index.html. All you have to do is sign up – there’s no cash involved.
There are lots of ways to help – emailing or writing to politicians, wearing a white band, or even just telling one other person about Make Poverty History. The aim of the campaign isn’t directly to raise money – it’s to get the politicians of the world, and particularly the UK, to make changes that can help bring about the end of poverty.
Because we all moan about our lives, particularly bloggers like me, but faced with the thought of a whole family dying of AIDS, or the thought of tiny children living on the streets, easy prey for traffickers and pimps, then the worries that I have – like getting into a bikini, or being able to afford the direct debit for my expensive contact lenses, kind of seem… well… petty.
So please, do something good today. You’ll feel better for it, and so will 1.6 billion other people.
A quarter of the world’s population (that’s about 1.6 billion people) are living in poverty.
Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty.
That’s scary, isn’t it? Doesn’t it scare you? Because it scares the hell out of me.
Now, this is a blog, not a charity, so I’m not going to ask you to give money (though of course if you want to, please do). What I am going to ask you to do is click on the banner on the top right of this page, and go to http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/index.html. All you have to do is sign up – there’s no cash involved.
There are lots of ways to help – emailing or writing to politicians, wearing a white band, or even just telling one other person about Make Poverty History. The aim of the campaign isn’t directly to raise money – it’s to get the politicians of the world, and particularly the UK, to make changes that can help bring about the end of poverty.
Because we all moan about our lives, particularly bloggers like me, but faced with the thought of a whole family dying of AIDS, or the thought of tiny children living on the streets, easy prey for traffickers and pimps, then the worries that I have – like getting into a bikini, or being able to afford the direct debit for my expensive contact lenses, kind of seem… well… petty.
So please, do something good today. You’ll feel better for it, and so will 1.6 billion other people.
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