Stand up!
Hi everyone, I’d like to take a moment and talk about something really important. Last night, ONE (SINGAPORE) launched the countdown clock to end world poverty by 2015, and I’m really proud to be part of their campaign this year.
My pledge is online, but I thought I’d post it here too, it’s a bit long, but I had so much to say to everyone.
My morning tea costs me a dollar, and over one billion people worldwide survive on less than that a day. I’ll be the first to admit that i take our basic necessities for granted.
On your bad days, you probably just went to bed to escape it all, but miles away one in seven people go to bed hungry at night and mothers hope for nothing more than a proper meal for their starving children.
Politicans can talk and debate all they want but where are the actions to their promises?
The world cannot afford to wait while people who lack the most basic of necessities are deprive by agendas, and the number of hungry grows day by day.
It’s time for a reality check. Although we live in a sheltered society, it doesn’t mean out charity is bound by our borders. Compared to these children we live a privileged life with food, clean drinking water and medical facilities. It’s all well and good to call for change and make suggestions.
Unfortunately, change for this world doesn’t just start from governments and decision makers; it starts with you and me.
I pledge to make a difference.
Be part of the ONE (SINGAPORE) countdown clock.
To Stand Up just submit a picture of yourself holding a number 0-9. You will become the countdown to 2015. The ONE (SINGAPORE) countdown clock will show world leaders exactly how long they have left – person by person, second by second, one by one – to Make Poverty History.
You can do this right now at www.standup.sg
Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty is an international event co-organised by the UN Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. We hope for ONE percent of the world population to Stand Up and call for a world without poverty. As Nelson Mandela says: ‘like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.’
Thanks babe for helping out! You rock!
woots babe! you’re in the list of CELEBRITIES who’ve stood up!
Im using The ONE formula brakes. Does this count Im in too?
yanti: no problemo. it was my pleasure.
patricia: a bit weird right ahhaaha i’m no where near celebrity status to those on that site
tan: HAhahaha only bikers would get that..hahaha
You looks really nice in the photo.
Joan: photographer is amazing, his name is Olivier from milk productions.
Great post.
To all our shame is the billions thrown at banks all over the world because they screwed up, thus enabling many bankers to enjoy their Christmas bonus – when just a couple (of those billions) could make a serious impact on the poverty situation and help put food in millions of hungry stomachs.
Why “our shame”? Because we elect those governments and allow them to use our (tax) money in this way.
Angela Thanks for the help