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Seeding Change
Related to country: Western Sahara

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We ... are all we need to transcend poverty.
You, me, our friends ... ordinary people, just getting on and getting by can make extraordinary shifts in the lives of the billions of people who live in poverty or even more urgently the 900 million people for whom food security is a burning reality right now.

Forget the banners that protest against government leaders, the marches that call upon someone else to end poverty, you are capable of shifting things, you, your consciousness and your passion. All it takes is a shift from going against the issue (fighting poverty) towards a new direction that empowering the real solutions (enabling change) unlocking the real potential and enabling the people in the problem to climb out of poverty through their own ingenuity, creativity and knowledge.

it doesn't have to cost the earth either. We can transcend poverty with pennies.
I liken the penny coin to a seed, one that has the potential to change your life and the lives of others as it's planted. Every time you're in the shops, remember that if you put aside a penny or wherever you can, add a penny-on to the things you buy, in doing this you begin to contribute to a new solution to poverty. Your conscious decision to remember others as you're shopping is the beginning of a shift in your consciousness and therefore the interconnected consciousness.

Find your own way to do penny-on, save up the pennies you add on each time you shop (if the shop isn't signed up yet) invest them into penny-on and see how deserts can be turned into fertile gardens, how sand can be turned into soil, how lives can be shifted from dependence on food aid to sustainable self sufficiency.

A penny a day doesn't sound much, however when its multiplied by the number of people in your school, your neighbourhood, your community or your city, the number suddenly grows from nothing to something, from loose change to social change. You can lead your own penny-on activities, from sporting events through to plain old shopping, whatever you do in your everyday life, imagine adding a penny-on and then see how the numbers add up.

Pilot projects are centred in the desert, showing how issues around health, nutrition, shelter, education and sustainability can be overcome using a potent combination of proven processes, fuelled by local people power working in partnership with natural, ecological resources.

Penny-on is the simplest solution to poverty in the world, but more importantly it's your solution towards a world that works for everyone.

October 14, 2008 | 10:24 AM Comments  1 comments





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