Is it possible that we could see the end of extreme poverty in just a generation?
According to Dr. Scott Todd, of Compassion International, it is entirely possible.
He listed some amazing trends:
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Currently, 1.4 billion people on earth live in extreme poverty, not having access to medical help, healthy food, clean water and who experience many other issues that plague those caught in poverty. But this is a number that has been cut in half since 1980!
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In 22 countries, the malaria rate has been cut in half.
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Thirty years ago, 40,000 children died each day from preventable causes.
- Twenty years ago, that number dropped to 33,000. Today, it’s 21,000. Still too many, but that’s a 50 percent reduction in a generation.
- During that period, those living in extreme poverty fell from 52 percent of the world to just 26 percent.
- In the last eight years, children’s measles deaths have fallen by 78 percent.
In this amazing video below, Scott said. “If the generation before ours did this, just imagine what our generation can do.”
At church today, they showed the video and put up 351 Compassion International children for sponsorship. They were snapped up in just about two hours, with a long waiting list of sponsors without children.
Poverty gone, In a generation?
Could it be …. ours?
What do you think? Possible without government aid or coercion?
P.S. I sponsored two children. Billy Cher-fils and Fleurette Anna Normil.
According to the Compassion Haiti page, there are 1510 children who need sponsorship at just $39 a month.
Joining with Michele over at Graceful for her “Hear it on Sunday, use it on Monday” community. At her church, they talked about the foreign poor and she asked about compassion fatigue. Read other posts here.
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