1 Dollar a Day

Think of what you can do with an additional one dollar in your daily budget. The alternatives do not vary so much, you can buy some chocolate or chips, may use on lottery or save for the end of the year and may buy the new PSP. These are the alternatives for living in a shelter, having enough food and safe water to survive. Now, forget about them, and take a look at the map below to see what does one dollar a day really mean .

One dollar a day (in terms of purchasing power) is the international measurement of poverty, above which people are considered to be able to survive. At first glance it may seem a little bit funny, and you can say who may need a dollar, but in fact, this is the ulitmate life-time goal for most people living in Zambia, Moldova or Liberia where only one of ten people can achieve more than two dollars a day.

Unsurprisingly, all these "red allert" centers of the poor world are not far from each other, but why it is so is the topic of another discussion.

I Have Some Issues

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them"

Shaw, G.B.

World is not fair and life is not easy. We do not have a magical receipt to keep all the things going well, but at least we can feel some sort of empathy and imagine how all these people living in the "other world" feel.Thats why I have some issues.


This blog is for the ones who can make a distinction between a "weight loss plan" and poverty in the third world, or at least for the ones who have an interest to understand the reasons of famine, human rights and fair development. It will have some numbers and figures, but nothing making you afraid to read will appear.


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