I haven't blogged in a while, but I need to start up again. I have re-inspired my commitment to ending poverty. I was going through the motions for a while but I saw a video in my Social Justice class today that reminded me of all the people in the world who have nothing, while I sit here in my relative splendor. I make about $275 a month. That's not a lot when you're going out with friends, buying groceries, and doing whatever else college students are doing. I'm also trying to save a little for my upcoming wedding or in case my car breaks down or something.
But some people have NOTHING. People are dying of preventable diseases like diarrhea while I complain about the taste of Pepto Bismol. People are living on little to no nourishment while I complain about the offerings of my school's dining services.
What would I do, were our situations reversed? What would my life be? Who would help me?
Those were my thoughts today as I thought about new ways to increase people's excitement about the cause.. and as I thought of all the people dying in the world and people's excuses for not helping with global poverty being "we need to take care of who is here before there" - I had a thought. What if we brought poverty, disease, and death to campus? What if people saw the dead while they walked to class?
I want to do chalk outline sketches of "corpses" on the sidewalks all over campus. Adults, children, everyone. In the outlines I want to write statistics and facts about the poverty in the world, and how it is affecting those who are less advantageous than we are.
I love it.
My other idea involves toilet paper rolls! I want to take the paper tubes from toilet paper and use fake money wrapped around them with something like "We waste so much money - why not help others?" or something. I haven't worked that one out quite yet.
Check out one.org/campus and get involved!
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