"Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice" Nelson Mandela at the Live 8 concert July 2005

"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation" Nelson Mandela

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Sunday, April 19

War on Poverty!

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Let's put TERRORism into perspective...
The September 11, 2001 attacks in New York tragically claimed 2,967 lives. The resulting “war on terrorism” has dominated the world's agenda ever since.The War in Iraq and the resulting insurgency has claimed at least 30,000 civilian lives. Yet every day, yes, EVERY DAY! 30,000 children under five around the world die from poverty related causes! That’s 1 child every 3 seconds!

“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural, it is man-made and can be overcome by the actions of mankind.” Nelson Mandela
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hope its some food for thought ;)
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This blog is a little bit about me and mostly about being LOUD about making poverty history! I've got an awesome wife NAOMI(The cre8ive one). 3 kids - SAM 9(The brain),REUBEN 8(Playstation addict and Computer wiz) and Carissa 5(The Princess).