Live Below the Line this May
From May 7th to 11th, a few members of the International School of Curitiba community are getting behind the poverty awareness campaign Live Below the Line. Live Below the Lineis an awareness and fundraising campaign designed to help people understand the challenges faced by those currently living in extreme poverty. Live Below the Line challenges people to do just that, and feed themselves with just $1.50 a day—the U.S. equivalent of the international Extreme Poverty Line.
The International School of Curitiba team will be, this May, taking part of the challenge in order to raise awareness to the Live Below the Line cause.
The challenge?
Spend 5 days feeding yourself with $1.50 (R$2.80) a day – the U.S. equivalent of the extreme poverty line.
The reason?
To give a glimpse into the lives of 1.4 billion people who have no choice but to live below the line every day – and who have to make $1.50 cover a lot more than food…
Live Below the Line is an initiative of the Global Poverty Project, an education and campaigning organization whose mission is to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action against extreme poverty.
The Global Poverty Project educates and activates citizens to become effectively engaged in the movement to end extreme poverty, and is best known for its world-class multimedia presentation 1.4 Billion Reasons. This feature presentation has been seen by over 100,000 people since 2009 and is delivered in schools, businesses and communities around the globe.
We're passionate about equipping people to make a real difference in fighting poverty, and so we focus on connecting people up to the organizations and issues that have the biggest impact. We run Live Below the Line because we think that to really fight poverty, we've got to try to understand it – and the challenge provides a glimpse of what it is like to live on $1.50/day – a challenge that is faced by 1.4 billion people in our world today.
We've teamed up with some of the best U.S. charities that fight extreme poverty around the world and have provided you with the opportunity to support their work through personal sponsorship as you undertake Live Below the Line.
In 2012, Live Below the Line is running in the U.S., UK, and Australia simultaneously, with more than 20,000 people spending 5 days living below the line.
Across three continents, people will join the movement to tackle extreme poverty - join us.
Currently, we know of no teams in South America that will be participating in the challenge, so our goal is to get involved and film our progress in order to compile individual student footage into a documentary that we will show at the upcoming GIN (Global Issues Network) conference in São Paulo this October.
No comments:
Post a Comment