My podcast covers the theme of my blog and how I'm "making it count."
March 17, 2008
March 16, 2008
Not Just a Food Issue
[Today], over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa. (http://www.until.org/statistics.shtml)
There is a global AIDS crisis with particular emphasis in developing countries.
The UN estimates that, currently, there are 14 million AIDS orphans and that by 2010 there will be 25 million.
A series of campaigns have been launched addressing this issue. International retailer GAP has started a project called RED to fight against AIDS in Africa. A clothing line called EDUN by New York fashion designer Rogan Gregory, musical great Bono and his wife Ali Hewson, has recently launched showcasing fabrics made of 100 percent African cotton from Lesotho, Africa. Purchasing EDUN clothing brings trade to this area of extremely high unemployment. Lethoso is classified as one of the poorest developing countries in the world with an average per capita income of $402 (www.one.org/blog).
EDUN Campaign
RED Campaign
There is a global AIDS crisis with particular emphasis in developing countries.
The UN estimates that, currently, there are 14 million AIDS orphans and that by 2010 there will be 25 million.
A series of campaigns have been launched addressing this issue. International retailer GAP has started a project called RED to fight against AIDS in Africa. A clothing line called EDUN by New York fashion designer Rogan Gregory, musical great Bono and his wife Ali Hewson, has recently launched showcasing fabrics made of 100 percent African cotton from Lesotho, Africa. Purchasing EDUN clothing brings trade to this area of extremely high unemployment. Lethoso is classified as one of the poorest developing countries in the world with an average per capita income of $402 (www.one.org/blog).
EDUN Campaign
RED Campaign
Truth
More than 854 million people in the world go hungry. In developing countries nearly 16 million children die every year from preventable and treatable causes. Sixty percent of these deaths are from hunger and malnutrition.
In the United States, 11.7 million children live in households where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet. That means one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger.
Direct Source:(http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics)
Making it Count
Since the end of 2007, I have become more involved in this movement to end world poverty and hunger.
I have purchased merchandise from Feed Just One that will feed a child for a year.
I have set my internet home page to a search engine that feeds the hungry with each click I make.
I am passing out fliers supporting the Feed Just One campaign.
Now, I am blogging about the need for an ending of global poverty and hunger.
These actions are seemingly small and insignificant, but they are a birthplace for change. We must step outside our lines of comfortability and pick up the hungry man, woman and child.
Make a difference. Be the change. Feed just one.
I have purchased merchandise from Feed Just One that will feed a child for a year.
I have set my internet home page to a search engine that feeds the hungry with each click I make.
I am passing out fliers supporting the Feed Just One campaign.
Now, I am blogging about the need for an ending of global poverty and hunger.
These actions are seemingly small and insignificant, but they are a birthplace for change. We must step outside our lines of comfortability and pick up the hungry man, woman and child.
Make a difference. Be the change. Feed just one.
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