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Living on $1 a day…right here

By / 31 January 2008

Jolyon White is about to embark on an adventure for lent…but it’s not the kind he might normally get involved in. No kayaking or rock climbing. Jolyon has decided that when it comes to poverty, perhaps enough really is enough. With more than 1.2 billion people living on just US$1 a day, Jolyon has decided to stand in solidarity with them over lent and do likewise.

We’ll be working with him and inspirationaltv.net to record his experiences on video and produce material for the web, DVD and educational resources. To find out more about what he is up to, go to the website he has set up:
http://www.onedollaraday.net.nz/.

Pretty amazing stuff. He’s doing something to make a difference, right where he is.

You can too. You can stand in solidarity with him and the 1.2 billion who don’t have a choice about living in poverty of US$1 a day.

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If you want to find a way of connecting the UN Millennium Development Goals into your own spiritual life and make a difference through prayer, perhaps during lent especially, why not get a pack of our FREE MDG praying cards and we’ll get them sent to you. We’ve already distributed 1000 packs around the church and will have a reprint ready for Lent.

It’s interesting that we still have high rates of poverty in this country, but in order to try and sort that out we have committed to an unsustainable path of ‘growth’ and neo-liberal trade (witness the soon-to-be-fact free trade agreement with China), which requires that faceless billions of the worlds poor work for almost nothing (certainly, we wouldn’t be prepared to work for what they get) in order that we might be ‘better of’. Funny, I don’t feel better off at all.

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This site is run by the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church.

We seek to nurture justice spirituality and imagination, and engage in advocacy in all areas of life, overcoming poverty and transforming violence.

We encourage people to think and live “justly”, and emphasise debate and action on local, national and global issues.

Although we are Anglican, our vision isn’t so much about being Anglican. It’s about living justly. Justice is about how you live your life, and being just where we are. Working together, we can all flourish.

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