The shame of injustice
NOVANEWS
By Graham Peebles
Poverty is the greatest cause of death and illness globally. It strangles the lives of billions of people, denying the expression of innate potential, andcondemning men, women and children to live stunted, uncreative lives of interminable suffering and drudgery.
While the numbers living in extreme poverty (the World Bank calculates this to be living on $1.90 a day) has decreased, over half of the world’s 7.5 billion people are somehow surviving on less than $5 a day (the cost of a designer coffee in developed countries). Hundreds of millions of others live in a condition of relative poverty or economic insecurity, with anxiety and worry their constant companion. The majority of the world’s poorest people live in developing countries – India, sub-Saharan Africa ...