One Day’s Wages
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by admin in What's the Buzz?, features
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One family gives entire 2009 salary to fight extreme global poverty and then challenges the world to give One Day’s Wages…
What if we saved more and consumed less? These are the questions Eugene & Minhee Cho, founders of One Day’s Wages, are asking the world. The Chos decided they wanted to “do something” about extreme global poverty and give back. They decided to start by giving the 2009 salary for their family ($68,000), and then they launched an organization called One Day’s Wages with the concept of challenging others to give at least a day’s wages to fight extreme poverty in other parts of the world.
Eugene and Minhee Cho
Eugene and Minhee Cho recall on their website, “We’ve always known of the disparity in the world; Always knew the statistics. In fact, we’ve memorized them and know the numbers by heart. But it was traveling to a few places and seeing with our own eyes the faces, stories, children, and families behind the numbers that “wrecked” our lives. It was seeing organizations and women, men, and children do amazing work to uplift themselves out of poverty -- if only given respect, dignity, and opportunities. It’s by far more complex but it’s also very simple: It shouldn’t be this way and doesn’t have to be this way. We have the capacity to end extreme global poverty.”
The Cho’s challenge others to think about:
One Day’s Wages = 0.4% of one’s annual salary = Huge Impact
* $20 can help build a well to provide clean water for one person for 20 years.
* $10 can purchase a bed net to help prevent malaria.
* $45 can pay annual school tuition for one child.
They say, “One Day’s Wages is you, me, us, them: giving, dreaming, and working together to end extreme global poverty. Join the movement.”
To learn more visit:
www.onedayswages.org
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