The theme for 2008′s Blog Action Day is poverty, in which Wikipedia describe as:
Deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain better employment to escape poverty, and/or to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens
Poverty is not all just about starving. People suffering from poverty, will continue suffering, for they have no chance to escape from it unless we do something to help.
Give a man a fish, you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to sell fish and he eats steak. People suffering from poverty does not have any fish, nor knows how to fish.
We will do the donating and word spreading, and the charity organization will do the fishing lessons.
What can you do?
What can your tiny effort do? Nothing. But together, it will make poverty history. You will want to be part of this, I believe.
Donate!
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Fight poverty on Blog Action Day by making a donation to the Global Fund. The Fund was created to finance a dramatic turnaround in the three major diseases that are both the result and cause of poverty in dozens of countries – AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
Kiva
Kiva is one of the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending websites, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. These entrepreneurs use their loans to start businesses that lift them and their communities out of poverty. It doesn’t take much and the majority of loans are fully repaid!
Shop!
Poverty Buttons
Buy one of these nifty Blog Action Day “Solving Poverty” buttons from CafePress and all profits go to Kiva.org entrepreneurs.
Shop for Poverty with aGoodCause
Now it is possible to fight poverty through shopping! Grab their software and when you purchase from more than 5,000 online shops you’ll be automatically making a donation to a charity of your choice.
Say and Spread!
Solving poverty is not all about money. You can still help without forking out a penny.
If you have a blog, participate in the Blog Action Day and post about poverty. Start a conversation on poverty instead of gossiping during lunch hour. When everyone is talking about poverty, people who doesn’t take poverty as an issue will rethink their stand.
What else can you do? – Read here