What is poverty? Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom. Any reasonable definition of poverty or hunger implies that significant numbers of people are living in intolerable circumstances where starvation is a constant threat, sickness is a familiar companion, and oppression is a fact of life.
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one of the things that really drew me to your blog were your blurbs on social justice.
rock on
wow. I second the rock on statement. Thank you for that.
Hey social justice is my middle name. Well, not really, but kind of…it’s Christian…so, that still works, right?
p.s…my mom collects rocks. She’s so amazing. She’ll be glad that I got two on my blog!
At one point in life I thought we lived in poverty…
not by this definition.
Oh, Michelle, what a great perspective you give.
I remember watching “pursuit of happyness” and crying b/c it was so close to home, but to put that understanding to this definition - thank you for that.
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