Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Blog Action Day '08 - POVERTY...


You know, you just don't see babies like these in your wealthy neighborhoods. Parents in Haiti feed their children dirt to hush their hunger while parents in the USA are feeding their children empty calories because that's all they can afford. I drew this cartoon to show the effect of poverty with obesity and malnutrition.

Today is "Blog Action Day '08 - Poverty" created to address just one issue with a thousand voices, an annual nonprofit event, that sparks communication. It's refreshing, interesting and instrumental in allowing voices to be heard. Check this site for an amazing assortment of ideas on this topic. http://blogactionday.org

Coincidentally, tomorrow is "World Food Day", marking the day, 45 years ago, that the United Nations created the Food and Agriculture Organization to address global hunger. Check out what they've been able to do, what they are doing today and what we all can do to ease this pain. No guilt. Just folks helping folks. http://www.wfp.org

Oh, and did you hear that in order to help ease the escalating poverty problems, Robert DeNiro's new hotel, The Greenwich, is donating half the rates charged to stay in any of his $5000 - $15,000 per night rooms!..!! (Okay, I totally made that up as I can't comprehend any other reason for fifteen-thousand-dollars-per-night. Bobby call me - we gotta' talk.)

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Great post! Did you do that drawing? Disturbing but awesome. And I LOVE your note to DeNiro. I'm sure he'll be calling you any minute now.

...Sharon said...

Thanks!..!!

Yeah, I found out about this event the same day and suddenly wanted to create an editorial style cartoon to best to convey a reflection of poverty.

And how annoying to think that we'll never be able to stay at Bob's place. Ya know, he should just keep it a secret then.

This world just ain't right.