give up a gift challenge
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This holiday season, we are challenging you to ask ONE friend or loved one to give you a different kind of holiday gift - a gift that will help end Extreme Poverty. All you have to do is sign up as an individual, a team, a group or a school and then your family and friends can log on and give you a gift through your profile.TRANSCRIPT
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uend: has a challenge for U
This holiday season…
Ask for a different kind of gift
A gift to end extreme poverty
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Extreme poverty is defined by the United
Nations as…
living on under $1 a day
You can’t even buy a cup of coffee for that in Canada.
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That’s misleading…
They aren’t living…
…they are actually dying every day from
preventable causes…
…from poverty
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No guilt, just facts:
1.2 Billion (1 in 5) people live like that in
the world
In our world
In my world
In your world
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No guilt, just facts:
½ the people in our world live on under
$2 per day
More than 3 Billion people
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$1/ day
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No guilt, just facts:
Over 22,000 people will die from
poverty today…
…and tomorrow, and every day
And it is preventable
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No guilt, just facts:
•$1 trillion spent on holiday retail
& wholesale in North America
•$750,000 thrown away daily on
disposable paper cups
•$40 billion is spent annually on
video games
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So…
How much money would
end extreme poverty?
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according to the World Bank
$50 billion annually
for 15 years
if spent properly
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That’s 5% of what we spend during the holiday season in
North America
1 out of 20 gifts
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So how can U make a difference?
Shocked?
It’s mind boggling!
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How?
If we all asked to receive
just one gift differently this holiday season…
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How?
If Canadians alone committed to
just one $20 gift, we would raise
$676,000,000
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U have
the power
to choose.
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Do you need another
‘coolest pair of jeans in the world’?
Or…
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…an education so she can feed her family for years to come?
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Do you need that new super-cool
tech thing-a-ma-jiggy?
Or…
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…clean water for him for a Year?
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Image by C. Bolin
We can put an end to poverty in our lifetime.
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Would U
Give up a Gift this holiday
season…
…if it meant putting an
END to poverty?
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Ask your friends,
ask your family,
ask everyone…
To give U a different kind of gift this holiday
season
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Take the challenge
Give up a Gift
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