Opportunity

Our small sacrifice can provide a lifetime of hope and income.

Creating opportunity is the key to ending global poverty. Today there are 1 billion people who live on $1 per day. We can give them tools to provide sustainable income and food for their families. These can be seeds for a vegetable garden, goat farms, chickens, cows, fish ponds, or even fishing boats. With each of these, recipients are trained on how to maintain and grow an income from the gift. There are also microfinance options -- we can provide opportunity in the form of loans or gifts to start small businesses. While bad government is often a key cause of poverty in these nations, excellent non-profit partners can reach out and change lives despite the political environment.

In our own backyard, Haiti, Nicaragua and Bolivia are the three poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, with 20% to 60% living in extreme poverty. Much of South and Central America is only a bit better, with 6% to 20% of people living in extreme poverty. The income level of extreme global poverty was recently adjusted for inflation to any person making less than $1.25 per day.

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