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Blog Action Day 2008: Fighting Poverty

October 15, 2008 | Filed in: Miscellaneous | 2 comments

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Today is Blog Action Day 2008.  The focus this year is on Poverty and overcoming the devastating effects of said tragedy.

Poverty is a terrible thing.  So many people around the world are suffering because of a lack of resources, a lack of money and a lack of opportunity.  Truly I am blessed having lived in the U.S. my entire life.  I’ve been blessed with many opportunities.  Unfortunately being so blessed its sometimes difficult to remember that others aren’t nearly as fortunate.  It’s not fair to only think about the suffering outside of my little world more than once a year, and I hope that you, my readers, don’t think of me that way.  I hope to one day devote my life to philanthropy and charitable giving.  However this day, this Blog Action Day gives us all a great chance to think about what is wrong in the world and more importantly, what we can do to help it.

What can we do anyway?  I am sure you have asked this question by now.  I want you to follow this link (it will  open in a new window or tab) to see what one person can do.  There are a great many ways to donate of your time or your money to fight a cause so important as poverty is.  My plan is to donate all ad income from this blog today to either a charity listed in the above listed link, or to microfinance a loan to someone faced with poverty.  I can’t of course encourage any ad link clicking, but if you do see something that looks interesting, please feel free to let your finger do the talking.

For more information I strongly encourage you to check out the homepage of Blog Action Day.  Good luck everyone and lets do what we can to fight poverty not only today, but until it is gone from the face of the earth.

Tags: Blog Action Day

Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty

August 20, 2008 | Filed in: Miscellaneous | No comment

For those of you who don’t already know Blog Action Day 2008 is focused on the topic of Poverty.  Blog Action Day is a day when bloggers come together to blog about a single topic with the intent of bringing these issues to the forefront of everyone’s mind and making a difference.  Blog Action Day 2008 is on October 15th.  We’ll be doing something special this day, but I couldn’t wait to let you all know what’s going on at this point.

Some of you may remember last year when my wife and I donated some money to Operation Smile.  We made another donation quite recently to a different charity called Feed the Children.  We did this right before I ran across the Blog Action Day for 2008 and noticed that it was focused on Poverty.  Thinking this was quite a coincidence I thought I’d start out the focus on Poverty this year a little bit early.  I know I’ve asked the question before, but I want to ask again, but this time with a different focus.

What charities have you donated to - or do you plan to donate to sometime this year - that are focused on helping with Poverty?

Tags: Blog Action Day, Feed the Children, Operation Smile, Poverty