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From the lens Bill Gates' $600 billion challenge: can philantropy change the world?.

  • RenaissanceWoman2010 May 6, 2011 @ 9:42 am | delete
    Such a critical focus. Thank you!
  • UKGhostwriter Mar 19, 2011 @ 4:30 pm | delete
    Nice caring lens - good luck with all your endevours!
  • SweetMarie83 Mar 8, 2011 @ 12:42 pm | delete
    Thank you for lensrolling my knitting for a good cause lens to this one, I'm going to return the favour. Whether people believe it or not, there are things that all of us can do...I can barely get by on the money I make, but I do knit and donate it to charity and I try to spread love and kindness whenever and wherever I can.
  • Tipi Mar 1, 2011 @ 11:37 am | delete
    I think it would be so cook if you could meet Bill Gates some how, that would be so neat for you. Nil can happen!
  • chemknitsblog Feb 25, 2011 @ 8:29 pm | delete
    Bravo for giving some publicity to such a worth topic!
  • Feb 24, 2011 @ 9:13 am | delete
    Great lens
  • lisadh Feb 19, 2011 @ 6:00 pm | delete
    A thoughtful lens. I hope Bill Gates and Warren Buffett succeed in their mission to get the wealthy to donate more money. I do think it makes a difference.
  • kab Feb 17, 2011 @ 12:28 pm | delete
    Wow. That photo of the Nairobi slums stopped me in my tracks.
  • Jack2205 Feb 16, 2011 @ 7:24 pm | delete
    Excellent lens. Blessed by the Charities Squid Angel.
  • antoivo Feb 13, 2011 @ 9:43 am | delete
    Poverty will always be a problem in this world as long as we have GREEDY, WEALTHY AND IGNORENT PEOPLE. 90% of the worlds wealth is owned by 5% of the worlds population, i heard this somewhere. It sickens me that it`s actually the less well off people that really care about this. Great lens my friend BIG LIKE given.
  • d-artist Feb 7, 2011 @ 9:22 am | delete
    It's hard to comprehend that hunger still exists in this world when there is so much excess (like gold plated cars, etc) in many other countries, and excess in the U.S...we throw so much food out in this society, it is a SIN......Rid the WASTE, GREED and CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS, the hunger will go away when you share your excess...Watch dogs over distribution of food for the hungry is a MUST....I truly believe this!
  • LubosLabik Feb 7, 2011 @ 3:58 am | delete
    I honestly believe that powerty disappear :)
  • Momsbusy247 Feb 5, 2011 @ 5:11 pm | delete
    What a wonderful cause you have taken on. I how it works. Change the world!
  • kimark421 Feb 4, 2011 @ 1:03 pm | delete
    Excellent lens.We here in America overuse our resources and then complain that we damage our selves and our enviroment. Go figure.
  • sukkran Feb 4, 2011 @ 7:39 am | delete
    well written article. most probably every body knows these facts and figures but very few are extending their helping hands. anyhow thanks for sharing this 'need of the hour topic'.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Feb 2, 2011 @ 7:16 am | delete
    Put meeting Bill Gates on your bucket list, make it happen
  • Rafick Feb 2, 2011 @ 7:22 am | delete
    Ok, Margo. Will do that. Thanks.
  • Brite-Ideas Feb 2, 2011 @ 1:52 am | delete
    this lens is so needed and so sad
  • poutine Feb 1, 2011 @ 8:33 am | delete
    Well presented points.
  • skiesgreen Jan 30, 2011 @ 4:22 pm | delete
    Its very sad to see children starving but this will happen on an increasing scale as the populations continue to expand without restraint. You can't continue to jam people into the same small container and only a few able to live on the top without these kind of consequences. Featured this on Dumb and Dumber
  • Arquinn Jan 31, 2011 @ 3:21 am | delete
    totally agree with you skiesgreen
  • moonlitta Jan 26, 2011 @ 2:30 am | delete
    Although I've been preceded by another Angel, the lens deserves it.
  • Norma_Budden Jan 25, 2011 @ 1:00 am | delete
    I must admit that I only need to think of a child going hungry and I could cry. Seeing the emaciated children in the YouTube video was almost more than I could handle, yet parents see their children starving each and every day. How strong can some human beings be to endure it all?

    I agree with your concept that more funds should be donated toward charity- and enormous amounts, at that. Out of those funds, however, a portion should be set aside for education purposes a little later.

    Why later, you may ask? Simply because an empty belly has no ears. When people are hungry, their sole focus is on being nourished. A parent cannot, in any way, learn about a process before feeding their starving child/ren; it's just not a humane expectation for any individual to have.

    The first priority in helping the poor is to meet their basic needs.

    This is a well-presented lens and I, hereby, grant you a Squid Angel blessing. I would guarantee that the angels in Heaven are also smiling upon this lens.

    Your lens has been featured at http://www.squidoo.com/wings-of-an-angel
  • Rafick Jan 25, 2011 @ 6:45 am | delete
    Thank you very much Norma for the comment and the blessing. I'll gradually improve this lens to make it more complete. Proposals for education will definitely be there, Thank you also for featuring it.
  • vallain Jan 24, 2011 @ 12:00 pm | delete
    Very good points. We could all (who are reading this) stand to do more for others.
  • Rafick Jan 24, 2011 @ 11:29 pm | delete
    Thank you, vallain.
  • GrowWear Jan 24, 2011 @ 10:05 am | delete
    Charity, indeed, can change the world. Really can't say what celebrities and athletes give in their private lives, but for Bill Gates to challenge them to giving half of their income means to me that he believes they aren't doing enough, and more importantly, that more could be done through charity.
  • Rafick Jan 24, 2011 @ 11:29 pm | delete
    Thank you, GrowWear
  • ajgodinho Jan 23, 2011 @ 11:00 am | delete
    Nice to see someone who is concerned about the well-being of other humans around us. I think we can all make a difference whatever little it is. I encourage you to continue doing your part - we alone can't change the world, but in unity much can be done...God bless!
  • Rafick Jan 24, 2011 @ 11:28 pm | delete
    Thank you, ajgodinho
  • I-sparkle Jan 23, 2011 @ 6:00 am | delete
    You have a wonderful intro and theme for this lens. This is a huge subject. Would you consider republishing with more solutions and organizations that help the problem?
  • Rafick Jan 23, 2011 @ 6:06 am | delete
    Thanks for the comment, I-sparkle. Yes, this is a huge long-tern project. I'm working on improving the lens with more emphasis on problems and will certainly mention a number of organizations. I'm also open to collaborative work.
  • mismatch Jan 22, 2011 @ 6:38 am | delete
    Hi Rafick. I have read about your concern regarding distribution of wealth in society. I respect the concern you have about the poor but I think that the best way about going about that would not truly be taking from those who have in order to give to those who have not. At least, being only concerned with that, would not sort out the problem. Like in healthcare, if one is treating the symptom, one can be sure of the recurring of sickness.
    On this note, I was trying to highlight the importance of education and the access to information for everybody, for free and across the whole wrold, across the whole structure of society. I agree that the rich could help to bring social development to a degree further. But I think that just donating money to the thirld world is not enough and it is not very efficient. Unfortunately, exactly in those places where help is most needed, the channel through wich the intervention is directed would not always prove to be the safest. In many situation the help is mismanaged. And the growing popluation, mainly in the category of poor, makes such initiative unsoustainable. By the end,
    no matter how much the very rich of the world can give, it is not possibly enough to address all the problems of powerty in the world.
    I would suggest that efforts should go mainly to education and sharing information. This way, people of future generation could be better equipped to deal with the issues that concern human welfare and social development and eventually find permanent and soustainable solutions for the current inequities.
  • Rafick Jan 22, 2011 @ 7:34 am | delete
    Thanks for taking the time to write this long interesting comment, mismatch. This was just the beginning. I was thinking how to transform this lens into exactly what it should be and what you write comes just in time. I agree with all that you say and will redesign the lens to show what's wrong in the world and how it could effectively be changed into a better place without indulging into politics.

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