I Should Be Rich

Poverty Awareness [Blog Action Day 2008]

As a part of Blog Action Day I committed to helping spread the word about poverty! It’s time to educate yourselves, so put on your thinking caps and caring hearts…

There’s a lot of cool statistics on Wikipedia about poverty – learn more here.

Poverty.com also has a lot of resources.

So what is there to do? Here’s a list organizations trying to make an impact:

• Make Poverty History
• Solve Poverty
• Zap Poverty
• The Poverty Project
• ONE
• CARE
• Compassion
• World Concern

Some other useful links on how to help:

• 5 Ways to Help Poverty (in Africa, but I think that the ideas are useful anywhere)
• The Poverty Project: How to Help
• Holiday of a Lifetime (an interesting approach…)
• How Teens Can Help (an Islamic site)
• Compassion: How to Get Involved (a comprehensive list with links)