100th Post

This is my 100th post. I've been blogging for a little over 2 years now. My 100th post is going to be about something that counts.

Think about these things with me if you will. Will we turn our heads and continue to let our hearts be hard? I've been guilty of it and still am. These statistics are what I'm thinking about when you hear me say I want to sell my things and live among the poor.

Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2010.

Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted.

There are 2.2 billion children in this world, around 1 million are in poverty.

For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment.

12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World. (yes, that would be us rich americans).

Poverty kills more than 50,000 people every day. 18 million poor people die every year from extreme poverty.

20% of the population in developed nations consumes 86% of the world's goods. (Once again, that is us)


Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that’s over 30,000 per day, or one every 3 seconds.