A few years ago on this blog, I told you what my daughter L.E. said the first time she saw a photo of a starving child in a book about weather and famines:
“That’s not real though. That’s pretend, right?”
She reacted that way because a 5 year old who has grown up eating three meals a day her entire life can’t fathom that other 5 year olds don’t. That conversation set a lot of things in motion for me. And one of them was the idea of making poverty “unreal.” Could I, could we, could the planet one day make poverty and starvation unreal. “Pretend,” like L.E. mentioned.
Fast forward a few years and a friend of mine connected me to a group called Live 58 that wanted to sponsor Stuff Christians Like. Their message was one that really challenged my concept of making poverty unreal.
They believe our generation can end extreme poverty. That’s a bold statement, but then they shared a statistic with me:
“Extreme poverty is ending. In just 25 years the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has been cut in half. (52% to 26%)”
That is crazy to me. I honestly had no idea.
So then I watched their trailer and checked out their facebook page:
And they put forth a pretty compelling argument in the trailer and the full film on their site.
So today, I thought it might be good to do a 1-question brainstorm in the comments of this post about this topic.
Here it is:
“What do you think it would take to end extreme poverty?”
