An excellent post by Jonathan Lewis - with the economic crisis showing signs of coming back again one is really compelled to do more - it is with combined efforts only will success come faster and people must do a lot more.
Everyday in every moment of our lives we are faced with a choice - are we spreading oportunities or not,are we being helpful and nice or not - it is not easy but even more difficult to not do what we can - think it over. The opportunities are there all around us-we just have to open our eyes and see things differently - we must inspire and motivate ourselves and others.
People and time do not wait - the poor too are alive to what is happening today.We wil be held accountable and there is no escaping from the same.Let us share dreams,create opportunities and reach out to the lesser fortunate.
TOGETHER FIGHTING POVERTY AND DOING GOOD IS POSSIBLE
Posted by Jonathan Lewis on 07/07/09
This year, around the world 100 million MORE people are hungry. They consume less than 1800 calories per day. The total is now over 1 billion hungry people, up 11% from last year.
Civilization, if it can be called that, seems to create poverty and disadvantage as fast as it builds prosperity and opportunity. It is easy to become disheartened and self-questioning.
The Opportunity Collaboration, set for World Poverty Day on October 17, 2009, in Ixtapa, Mexico, will bring together the doers who are fighting the scourge of poverty. From social investor to nonprofit leader, from philanthropist to social entrepreneur, we need fulcrums of hope – levers to make change.
As a matter of conscience and common sense, we are compelled to ask, what is worth doing? As the website says, we are what we do (www.wearewhatwedo.org).
In the community of entrepreneurial global citizens, the most effective intervention, the most impactful approach and the most efficient way to use resources is an active debate. Some favor scaled governmental solutions; others prefer smaller, targeted nonprofit solutions; others demand self-sustaining, even profitable, private sector solutions.
For my part, I like them all. With equal enthusiasm, I take advantage of privately-sold fire insurance, expect rapid, efficient service from tax-supported government fire departments and hope that my neighbors learn from nonprofit, community-based fire safety programs.
A world of poverty is not news. 2.6 billion people lack a toilet, outhouse, pigsty or even an open drainage ditch for sanitation, a euphemism for keeping excrement out of the human water supply. We each have our own disturbing image of poverty. Mine is a woman who rises in the dark for some measure of privacy while she completes this basic bodily function.
The “sadness numbers” are numbing. Billions in poverty, 27 million in slavery, a landmine kills or mains a person every hour…
Finally visit http://www.opportunitycollaboration.net and do a lot more.
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