The Power of Your One Can Fight Global Poverty

The staggering reality of global poverty:

• 25,000 children under the age of 5 die each day due to poverty-related causes.
  
• Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Nearly 900 million people do not have access to clean water.
  
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
  
• Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women.
  
• Each year, more than 8 million people around the world die because they are too poor to stay alive.
  
• One third of deaths...are due to poverty-related causes

http://www.onedayswages.org/about/our-vision, http://www.urbanministry.org/global-poverty-statistics

However, with the power of only one person, YOU can make a difference. Did you know, through a donation to One Day’s Wages, a ONE-time gift of $100 can provide either 5 people clean water for 20 years, buy 10 people a mosquito bed net to protect against malaria, enroll 2 children in school for a year, or provide a woman a sewing machine and job training?


Perhaps with this ever changing and volatile economy, you and your family simply cannot afford even $10, let alone the $100. That’s okay, too. There is still the power of only one through actions.


Use the Power of Only One to:

• Become ONE follower of this blog and pass along its message to at least ONE person.
  
  
• Write ONE letter to your U.S. Senator or House Representative expressing your desire for global change and an end to world poverty.
  
  
• Donate ONE hour of ONE day at a local shelter.
  
  
• Donate ONE dollar at the check-out at the grocery store for the local food bank. 

Always remember, "A waterfall starts but with one drop, and look what becomes of that."

--The Power of One