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The divergent between the world’s poor and rich have never been greater. While wealthy individuals are relishing in a lavish life of luxury, millions are being forced to live an insufferable daily reality of poverty, conflict and lack of food. For these disadvantaged people, the hunger is constant and the desperation is overwhelming. Almost half the world- over 3 billion people- live on less than $2.50 a day and the poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income and the richest 20 percent accounts for 3 quarters of world income. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty, quietly, in some of the poorest village on earth, far from the scrutiny and conscience of the world. The time for a drastic change has arrived. It is up to you and I to make a difference before a significant of the world’s population drown in an ocean of poverty. We must save lives.

How would you feel, if you were one of the 800 million people who went to bed severely hungry each and every night? You would lay, listening to the unbearable sound of your stomach crying out in starvation, whilst billions of people around the world are complaining about what they’re having for dinner, or that there’s no dessert, or that their lunch hasn’t filled them up. Knowing that these people are binging on excessive amounts of food. How would you feel that the same unsatisfied people were throwing away their cash on unnecessary luxury items rather than donating just a few dollars to life- changing charities? $10 may just be spare change to us, but it can feed an African family of 4 for a week. 72 million primary school children in the developing world were not in school in 2005, nearly a billion entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen. There are fewer stories that...