27 January 2006
WELCOME TO 2006
As we commence 2006 it is worth remembering that we live in a world where:-
- more than a THOUSAND MILLION people live on less than US$2 per day;
- 28,000 children die every day from poverty related causes;
- 115 million school aged children do not attend school and 133 million young people cannot read or write;
- over 11 million children under the age of five die each year from preventable diseases such as malaria;
- one THOUSAND MILLION people do not have access to safe drinking water and
- European cows receive a subsidy of $2 per day while the level of aid provided by all but five of the richest nations in the world is below the level provided in 1970.
(See the Make Poverty History website
At the same time the US has so far spent more than two hundred and thirty five THOUSAND MILLION dollars in prosecuting the war in Iraq (see the National Priorities Project Website )
Why are our priorities so distorted?
Why do we remain so silent in the face of this reality?
- more than a THOUSAND MILLION people live on less than US$2 per day;
- 28,000 children die every day from poverty related causes;
- 115 million school aged children do not attend school and 133 million young people cannot read or write;
- over 11 million children under the age of five die each year from preventable diseases such as malaria;
- one THOUSAND MILLION people do not have access to safe drinking water and
- European cows receive a subsidy of $2 per day while the level of aid provided by all but five of the richest nations in the world is below the level provided in 1970.
(See the Make Poverty History website
At the same time the US has so far spent more than two hundred and thirty five THOUSAND MILLION dollars in prosecuting the war in Iraq (see the National Priorities Project Website )
Why are our priorities so distorted?
Why do we remain so silent in the face of this reality?
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