Live Below the Line Campaign: Spend 5 Days Feeding Yourself on $1.50 a Day Global Poverty Project | |
go to original March 19, 2013 |
The 2013 Live Below The Line Road Scholars tell you how to get involved with this years LBL challenge. (LiveBelowtheLineUS)
Live Below the Line is an innovative awareness and fundraising campaign that's making a huge difference in the fight against extreme poverty.
The challenge?
Spend 5 days feeding yourself with $1.50 a day – the U.S. equivalent of the extreme poverty line.
The reason?
To give a glimpse into the lives of 1.4 billion people who have no choice but to live below the line every day – and who have to make $1.50 cover a lot more than food…
Live Below the Line is an initiative of the Global Poverty Project, an education and campaigning organization whose mission is to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action against extreme poverty.
The Global Poverty Project educates and activates citizens to become effectively engaged in the movement to end extreme poverty, and is best known for its world-class multimedia presentation 1.4 Billion Reasons. This feature presentation has been seen by over 100,000 people since 2009 and is delivered in schools, businesses and communities around the globe.
We're passionate about equipping people to make a real difference in fighting poverty, and so we focus on connecting people up to the organizations and issues that have the biggest impact. We run Live Below the Line because we think that to really fight poverty, we've got to try to understand it – and the challenge provides a glimpse of what it is like to live on $1.50/day – a challenge that is faced by 1.4 billion people in our world today.
We've teamed up with some of the best U.S. charities that fight extreme poverty around the world and have provided you with the opportunity to support their work through personal sponsorship as you undertake Live Below the Line.
In 2013, Live Below the Line is running in the U.S., UK, and Australia simultaneously, with more than 20,000 people spending 5 days living below the line.
Across three continents, people will join the movement to tackle extreme poverty - join us.
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