Poverty, and ordinary people
It’s amazing how little people people know about poverty. I had a consultant and her boss come into the office today to talk to me about a product. Anyway during the course of the subject I ended up mentioning my work in India, and she didn’t know how she would deal with that kind of poverty. She wanted to know what she could to help, and I told her about TEAR’s useful gifts and fair trade products. I think she might even buy some, interestingly her boss new about fair trade and already was on board with it. I am glad that Wollies and Coles both sell fair trade products, because it makes it so easy for people to do something.
It made me think that I spend so much time with people who know about poverty and related issues. I have ghettoised myself so much over the years, to the point where all my friends are pretty much awesome poverty fighting people. I forget sometimes that out there are compassionate people who have yet to be informed of the simple things they can do to help. That’s why I think Make Poverty History brand is so important. It should be a good way of engaging a disconnected, but generally compassionate wider community. Sadly it seems to have lost energy lately.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
I pray that God or the Spririt or Jesus can find ways to empower us to talk to more people about what they can do. I often feel really embarrassed or chicken out or I am too stuck in my little social justice ghetto aswell, so good on you for talking to that lday. I have been talking to people recently about not buying new things but no one is excited about the concept as me. Thanks for saying that your friends are awsome poverty fighting people. That was cute.