YOUR SAY: MAKING POVERTY HISTORY

2nd July, 2005 For more information on the Make Poverty History campaign, visit www.makepovertyhistory.org.au or the Micah Challenge website at www.micahchallenge.org.au 30,000 children die every day from hunger and preventable disease. More than 1.3 billion people around the globe live on less than $US1 a day. 38 million people are living with HIV, 95 per cent of them in developing countries. We're interested to hear your thoughts on the latest push to tackle global poverty. Will 2005 be remembered as a watershed year in world history? Just what will it take to alleviate the suffering that goes on in so many parts of the world today? You can have your say below...

Your Say

Comment left by Ann W GOD HELP US Here come the ‘must haves’, burping and farting with the bloated excess of rampant consumerism while the skeletal ‘have nots’ sigh and wither under the relentless heat of poverty, injustice and others self-absorbed greed. Where is our sense of brotherhood and oneness? So much for the global village. If this is the global village, it’s just a macro version of what’s played out in individual communities all over the world. In the richest and poorest nations of the earth, the poor die of starvation and the rich die of excess. God help us.

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