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Are you one of the 10.55 million refugees in the world?
Are you one of the 14.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled their homes?
Are you between 15 and 24 years and can not find work? You may be one of the 75 million young people unemployed worldwide.
Do you have children of school age who are not attending school? There are 61 million children in age to attend primary education out of the school.
Are you a woman and you are between 20 and 24? So you may already be married and you're one of the 70 million married women before the age of 18 years. Did you marry even younger? Well, there are 23 million women married before 15.
Do you enjoy a rich and varied diet that ensures your physical and mental development? Chronic malnutrition is suffered by 870 million people worldwide.
Are you one of the 2 billion people living on less than 2$ a day?
Given that the world population is 7 billion people, it is quite likely you're lucky (statistically speaking) to be part of only some, or even better, any of the above groups.
Damn statistic! The problem is always of other.
And indeed, those "other" millions of human beings are the most vulnerable. They live their lives with the resignation of those waiting for better times, knowing that lack strength and resources, and plenty of misery and suffering left over.
Let us not expect that the weak, by themselves, to stand up and fight for social achievements that the powerful deny them.
Let us not expect that the powerful, by themselves, to distribute their growing wealth, since their fortunes are fed by poverty and crisis.
The future we want is in the hands of those who are not part or cause of the problem. Of those who still can conquer new social grounds, toward a world in solidarity, with a more equitable distribution of wealth and greater social and environmental justice. Of those that can empower the weak and weaken the powerful.
Again, the statistics do not lie: A vast majority of the world population are part of the solution. Only our determination to change things can get another possible world.
Things do not change, we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Are you one of the 14.7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled their homes?
Are you between 15 and 24 years and can not find work? You may be one of the 75 million young people unemployed worldwide.
Do you have children of school age who are not attending school? There are 61 million children in age to attend primary education out of the school.
Are you a woman and you are between 20 and 24? So you may already be married and you're one of the 70 million married women before the age of 18 years. Did you marry even younger? Well, there are 23 million women married before 15.
Do you enjoy a rich and varied diet that ensures your physical and mental development? Chronic malnutrition is suffered by 870 million people worldwide.
Are you one of the 2 billion people living on less than 2$ a day?
Given that the world population is 7 billion people, it is quite likely you're lucky (statistically speaking) to be part of only some, or even better, any of the above groups.
Damn statistic! The problem is always of other.
And indeed, those "other" millions of human beings are the most vulnerable. They live their lives with the resignation of those waiting for better times, knowing that lack strength and resources, and plenty of misery and suffering left over.
Let us not expect that the weak, by themselves, to stand up and fight for social achievements that the powerful deny them.
Let us not expect that the powerful, by themselves, to distribute their growing wealth, since their fortunes are fed by poverty and crisis.
The future we want is in the hands of those who are not part or cause of the problem. Of those who still can conquer new social grounds, toward a world in solidarity, with a more equitable distribution of wealth and greater social and environmental justice. Of those that can empower the weak and weaken the powerful.
Again, the statistics do not lie: A vast majority of the world population are part of the solution. Only our determination to change things can get another possible world.
Things do not change, we change.
Henry David Thoreau
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