This document discusses extreme poverty and proposes an alternative gift idea for the holiday season to help address it. It notes that extreme poverty is defined as living on under $1 per day, and over 1 billion people live in extreme poverty. For just $50 billion annually for 15 years, extreme poverty could be ended according to the World Bank. This is only 5% of what is spent in North America during the holiday retail season. The document asks the reader to consider forgoing one gift and instead donating that money to help end extreme poverty, suggesting it could make a real difference.
9. No guilt, just facts:
Over 22,000 people will die from
poverty today…
…and tomorrow, and every day
And it is preventable
10. No guilt, just facts:
•$1 trillion spent on holiday retail
& wholesale in North America
•$750,000 thrown away daily on
disposable paper cups
•$40 billion is spent annually on
video games