Michael Writes

It doesn’t take much to get me talking about poverty.  As a frugal living advocate for many years, the idea that millions of people around the world are starving to death while countless others are throwing away food because they don’t like it is enough to make me lose my appetite.

While there is no single simple solution to the worldwide spread of poverty that doesn’t mean that we - any of us - should turn a blind eye to the fact that it is happening to people everywhere, even in our own back yards.  As mentioned previously on my blog here, I am writing an e-book to raise money in support of a local organization that collects unwanted food from restaurants and supermarkets to distribute to those who need it.  While it doesn’t come close to solving a global crisis it does reach out to those who are in my small corner of the world.  If each one of us did something that reached out to our own neighbors there would eventually be no need to have a Blog Action Day about Poverty.

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