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Previous: How You Benefit from Helping Others and Curing the Most Deadly "Disease" | Earlier blog entries See also: Free Newsletter Coming Attractions: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 How to Get Inspired, Help Others and Make Yourself Happy, Too It's a built-in part of human nature. We can't be fully happy until we're part of something bigger than ourselves. And sometimes, the bigger, the better. Here's some suggestions how to best find great joy in life... that can give you - and many others - plenty to be thankful for. Latest additions: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Ending Hunger and Poverty Worldwide - Why It is Possible - and Necessary Far as we know, Hearts & Minds is alone in advocating ending extreme poverty in as little as five years. We don't know of any other non-profit organization with such an ambitious, specific goal. After a fairly thorough search of groups working on world poverty issues, checking more than 50 - the large, medium-sized and even the small ones - we haven't found a single other one with a concrete goal for when to end global poverty. Not even in a hundred years... So far, Hearts & Minds is alone in this. But soon that's going to change.... How good should good work be? The MDG would help 425 million people escape chronic hunger, one billion rise from poverty. It started March 2002 in Monterrey, Mexico. The USA and 21 other nations including most of Western Europe and Japan - many of the richest nations on the planet - made a solemn commitment to spend 0.7 percent of their national income to achieve the MDG. Unfortunately for hundreds of millions of people - and for us - it matters not only what's done, but also what's left undone. Over four years later... It seems unlikely the MDG will be achieved by 2015. And even if it is, we'd leave 425 million people hungry, a billion in poverty. How can we accept that? Not in good conscience. Because ending poverty is achievable. All the resources and proven techniques are there. Why we need to end
poverty...and the only thing missing The main thing missing? You and me. We can help build the political will to make it happen. That's where Hearts & Minds
comes in... We're putting together a strong case with plenty of specifics how it can be done. Then we'll build a large-scale, worldwide, grassroots lobbying campaign to make it happen. When it comes to doing good, sometimes big is beautiful. The bigger the better. Historical precedents Each time, change started when a few dared to dream big. Really big. Maybe the bigger the better. But each time, many said it couldn't be done. Some said it shouldn't be done. But starting with a few committed activists, great hopes became reality. Looking back, many ask, "Why did they tolerate such terrible problems for so long?" The same dynamic can certainly apply to widespread hunger and poverty in a world with plenty of resources. A good question I ask the same question myself. But there's no time like the present to start doing something much greater than anything you've ever done before. Now is the time We'll soon have plenty more things you can do, so please join us. Just send us an email with "Add Global" in the subject line. And you can start raising awareness today:
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Global Hunger and Poverty -
Readily achievable - for less than the
Marshall Plan* - a letter you can send to your elected representatives
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easy, effective actions you can do right now! More of this blog: How You Benefit from Helping Others and Curing the Most Deadly "Disease" | Earlier entries Comments? Questions? You can e-mail Bill directly: greatchange@gmail.com.
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