Thanks to Martha Ann
(By Martha Ann Kirk, CCVI) For the change of the
millennium, our Incarnate Word Congregation decided to reach out to Zambia. For
2000, the global community organized by the
United Nations set Millennium Development Goals. As we approach 2015, where are
we in relation to those Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? According to Ban
Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the UN, the goals have been the most helpful
global strategy ever used for the reduction of poverty, but much still needs to
be done. How can we contribute to the UN Post-2015 Development Goals and create
awareness in each of our communities that what we do locally is important for
the whole? Learn more:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ For some
women’s perspectives on the goals, see http://therivardreport.com/womens-perspective-un-post-2015-development-agenda/ by Sr.
Martha Ann Kirk who contributed to the Istanbul Summit focused on this.
On pages 22-23 of Engage, Jerry Large, a columnist for the Seattle times, writes about a study enacted by Neil Wollman and some of his colleagues at Manchester College in Indiana. I find the correlation between this article and the reading very beautifully profound; in all actuality, ending poverty is not too difficult of a scenario. If people simply put their heads together and made it a priority, we really could change the world for the positive. Instead, we choose to partake in wars and random acts of violent that do nothing to benefit our society. Back at home in California, there was a brief period of time where I volunteered for The Hunger Project. I met so many fantastic and like-minded people who wished to end world poverty. World poverty is wrong not only because the rich deny the poor of basic rights and necessities, but also because we as the strong and independent country that is America consistently do nothing to change the levels of poverty throughout our world. We need to make a change, and it must start from within the borders of the USA and stretch out to the rest of the world.
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