Great to see you getting involved in Blog Action Day.

Raising awareness about poverty and homelessness is incredibly important, but as you say awareness must be followed by action. Thanks for the post!

Peter

ps – I plan to come out of hibernation soon to attend Third Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll see you there.

i was thinking the same thing – we might want to see, say, 6 months from now, if not only the conversation but also some realities have changed.

in my mind, poverty is one of the biggest, biggest problems in the world. therefore, the vast majority of my personal and financial contributions to charities etc. are directed at the alleviation of poverty. maybe it’s the way i was raised. my parents always thought it was “bad form” not to give to a beggar, even though they had very little money themselves most of the time. they had experienced extreme poverty after the second world war, and i grew up with their stories about it.

Shane