Aussies jump for poverty

Aussies jump for poverty :

"Organisers said 50,000 people at 230 locations across Australia would participate in the STAND UP campaign, along with millions around the world."

The person who didn't stand up came from the Phillipines. It wasn't a problem that they didn't. They thought this would change nothing. That it was a lovely idea but the reality would go on and that poverty would always be talked about but never resolved. We live in a world where there is enough for everybody. We stood up for poverty because we actually are sick of the plans and empty rhetoric. We do want change. We do want our children to live in a better world and no one should be poor because of an accident of birth place. For me, it meant getting off my backside and actually sponoring the child I had been thinking about sponsoring for so long. It also made some of us start a knitting club to make blankets and clothes. That has been a good social thing for us but it is far more important to the people who receive these things. It's not as if you have to do a lot to make the changes. It's doing something. Something counts.