Right now I am researching some projects to help try to eradicate poverty. After having seen poverty first hand, I am deeply confused by it but nonetheless passionate about it. You see, while impoverished nations have way less in the way of materialism, they oftentimes lead richer lives. This brings me to my first big set of questions.
1. Can we alleviate poverty and create wealth with out losing the true riches of this life?
2. If so, how do we help them create sustainable life, while continuing to encourage the richness of community, love and relationships?
3. Furthermore, if that is successful how do we bring that back to the western world?
These are big guiding questions underlying the why. Wouldn't it be a shame to create wealth in a country and watch them lose something bigger. (Now you must also understand that I am operating under the premise that western worlds have seen a decline in spirituality, community and deep relationships. I am also claiming that those are far more important than material wealth).
Next comes the question of how. If you believe that you can create wealth without sacrificing the aforementioned, how does that happen. Does it happen with by the big success of a few or by the minor successes of the masses? If it is by the few brilliant entrepreneurial minds who then create jobs, is micro-finance the going to accomplish that? Furthermore is debt even a sustainable way to do it? Our whole country is questioning that right now.
Our world has been trying to eradicate poverty for a long long time. I am not sure there is an end all be all solution but yet were called to care for them. I guess this just means we will have to go deeper.
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