Posts Tagged ‘Extreme poverty’
It’s the last day. I just plain don’t feel well now. I’m unusually tired, I’m perpetually nauseated, I have a seemingly permanent stomachache, and doing some of the more simple tasks around here takes a load of energy I didn’t realize it took before. You become sort of used to the hunger, it becomes a […]
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Tags: Developed country, Developing country, Extreme poverty, hunger, Live Below the Line, poor, Poverty, poverty in the U.S., Sub-Saharan Africa, U.S., UNICEF, World Bank, World Development Indicators
One of the challenges I’ve decided to take on is the Live Below the Line challenge this week. Live Below the Line is basically subsisting on $1.50 of food per day or less, for five days. According to their website, livebelowtheline.com, the amount of $1.50 was chosen because this is the globally accepted figure for […]
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Tags: developing nations, Extreme poverty, hunger, Live Below the Line, Poverty, Poverty threshold, starvation, World Bank
They Need To Go 