WHEN IT COMES TO POVERTY IT IS ALWAYS THE VULNERABLE THAT SUFFER THE MOST, AND NO ONE IS MORE VULNERABLE THAN A DEFENSELESS CHILD. To exploit a child for your own physical pleasure is reprehensible. It is conduct that cannot be allowed to go unpunished and yet it does. How can this be? How… [Read more…]
November 29, 2010
TO BE A CHILD IN EXTREME POVERTY IS TO LIVE A LIFE FILLED WITH DANGER. It is heartbreaking for anyone to have to live under the severe conditions of extreme poverty, but it is especially tragic when so many children have to struggle against death every day of their lives. Instead of the joys of… [Read more…]
July 30, 2010
THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS TAKE IN OBSCENE AMOUNTS OF CASH WHILE A BILLION HUMAN BEINGS TRY TO SURVIVE ON ONE DOLLAR A DAY. The subject of religion is fraught with emotion. People become incensed if you do not agree with their way of thinking or if you ridicule their particular beliefs. No one wants to have… [Read more…]
April 1, 2010
THE WORLD OF EXTREME POVERTY IS LITTERED WITH LANDMINES. Kambale cried as he walked alone. There were no other people in sight, and he was afraid. He was only six years old, and he had been searching for his mother for hours. They were refugees in a war torn area of their country, and they had become separated… [Read more…]
February 4, 2010
EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE IS MORE THAN JUST A DREAM, IT IS AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL. Do we feel equal to some – but superior to others? What do we base our assumptions on? Is there criteria we use to compare ourselves against others? And what makes up that criteria? Is it material wealth, social position,… [Read more…]
January 17, 2010
THE 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI WILL GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE NATURAL DISASTERS TO EVER OCCUR IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. Unfortunately, it is a tragedy that was compounded by the pre-existing poverty. It is always amazing to see how generously the world responds to major disasters. Whether it’s an earthquake, hurricane, tsunami or floods – medical aid, money and materials all flow into the stricken regions. People everywhere freely give… [Read more…]
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