Blog Action Day- Poverty
According to Global Issues.com, almost half the world, over 3 billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day. 1 billion of them are children. Some of these children, who are at our age or even older than us, cannot read a single page from a book. Now we learn how to read as soon as we go into Kindergarten. All of these poor children are deprived from having any education. All of the money they have, they use it to get food so they don’t starve everyday. They don’t have enough money for healthcare or education. About 400 million people have no access to safe water and 270 million have no access to health services. We have everything here. We have freshwater, and abundant amount of food (some we throw away just because we don’t like it), healthcare, and good education. We can all help stop poverty by taking our time and stand up against poverty! We can all make a difference just by giving a penny or dollar. You would be sure that one child can get food and some healthcare. We can also send old books to these poor countries. They would really appreciate it and actually learn something. They would feel special. It is an awesome way to help someone in need!



on October 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Those ideas are really good, like the one about giving old books to those countries.
on October 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Olá desculpa por estar a escrever este comentário em portugues.Obrigada pelo o cometário.
Filipa
filipacad6b
on October 20th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
hi, Faizahs
I’m the teacher of Filipa. her blog is at http://filiparodinhas.edublogs.org
I believe her avatar his related to my personal blog, as it is the primary blog. But I’ll tell her tomorrow that you looked for her.
I love your avatar. And I will be back to read your posts.
stora Ines
on October 21st, 2008 at 2:44 am
G’day Faizah,
I have seen many comments from you at various blogs I have been reading lately. Glad you are enjoying the competition.
We had 256 students and teachers Stand Up for Poverty at their website.