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Helping the poor

poor Half the world today – three billion people – scrape by on less than two dollars a day. A billion and a half people live on less than a dollar a day. A billion people in our world live in grinding, under-nourishing, dehumanizing poverty. Cultures oppress women and families, intentionally keeping them from educational opportunities that illuminate a way out of poverty.

Isaiah 58:6-9

⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
   and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
   and break every yoke?
⁷ Is it not to share your food with the hungry
   and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
   and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
   and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
   and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
⁹ Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
   you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

Do the Math

In 1970 - 918 million people (35%) of the developing world were chronically undernourished.
Today - 841 million people (20%) of the developing world are chronically undernourished.
In the last 40 years the gap has been narrowed by just 15%.