Give Up A Gift School4
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the
uend: has a challenge for U
This holiday season…Ask for a different kind of gift
A gift to end extreme poverty
Extreme poverty is defined by the United Nations as…
living on under $1 a day
You can’t even buy a cup of coffee for that in Canada.
That’s misleading…
They aren’t living…
…they are actually dying every day from preventable causes…
…from poverty
No guilt, just facts:
1.2 Billion (1 in 5) people live like that in the world
In our world
In my world
In your world
No guilt, just facts:
½ the people in our world live on under $2 per day
More than 3 Billion people
$1/ day
No guilt, just facts:
Over 22,000 people will die from poverty today…
…and tomorrow, and every day
And it is preventable
No guilt, just facts:
•$1 trillion spent on holiday retail & wholesale in North America
•$750,000 thrown away daily on disposable paper cups
•$40 billion is spent annually on video games
So…
How much money would end extreme poverty?
according to the World Bank
$50 billion annually
for 15 years
if spent properly
That’s 5% of what we spend during the holiday season in
North America
1 out of 20 gifts
So how can U make a difference?
Shocked?
It’s mind boggling!
How?
If we all asked to receive just one gift differently this
holiday season…
How?
If Canadians alone committed to
just one $20 gift, we would raise
$676,000,000
U have the power to choose.
Do you need another ‘coolest pair of jeans in the
world’?
Or…
…an education so she can feed her family for years to come?
Do you need that new super-cool
tech thing-a-ma-jiggy?
Or…
…clean water for him for a Year?
Image by C. Bolin
We can put an end to poverty in our lifetime.
Would UGive up a Gift this holiday
season…
…if it meant putting an END to poverty?
Ask your friends, ask your family, ask everyone…
To give U a different kind of gift this holiday season
Take the challenge
Give up a Giftat