Archive for June, 2009

T-Shirt Contest Over

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Our t-shirt contest is now over. Congratulations to LJEsposito, ScotHTH, and Macrocompassion who will each receive a free t-shirt from the Moju Project!
Nonetheless, the discussion of how a large sum of money could be spent to alleviate poverty is valuable regardless of it being a contest. So even though the contest is over, if you […]

Free Poverty-Fighting T-Shirt Contest

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

A nice gentleman named Gerrid from the Moju Project recently contacted me to tell me about the project. It’s simple: A portion of the proceeds from anything bought off their website goes towards saving lives. Every t-shirt they sell feeds an orphan one hot meal daily for a month in Africa.
I like the t-shirts. I […]

Questions to Ask Ourselves about Poverty

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

In my last blog post, I explained the way that I think ignorance causes inaction on poverty. In this post, I have come up with a series of questions that I think we can ask ourselves to help us relate to poverty and understand how much poverty actually threatens and affects those of us not […]