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The developed world can wipe out massive diseases, severe malnutrition, and hunger for less than 1% of its income. $1 vaccines and food supplements can save the lives of 1/3 of humanity that live on less than $2 per day.

The U.S. only donates 0.15% of its income to official development assistance; however, health agencies have wiped out smallpox, polio and are now wiping out measles in massive vaccination campaigns.

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AGE OF HOPE

We live in an age of great hope.

Health agencies wiped out Smallpox in the 1970s.
/watch?v=LtQ5JSW2eNk

Health agencies wiped out Polio in the 1980s.
/watch?v=INVVmLJ1zYk

Health agencies are now wiping out Measles.
/watch?v=axYibL_6cMc

This is reducing child mortality around the world and saving millions of lives every year.
/watch?v=ALlj0T6UTq4

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The following site has great info for research:

http://www.childinfo.org/pu...

State of the World's Children reports - 2008, 2009


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THEGREENCHILDREN

I am doing a shout out for TheGreenChildren. Their YouTube site emphasizes microfinance, which empowers the poor, and they have greatly contributed to the opening of a children's hospital that gives eyesight to thousands of people every year.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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Channel Comments (264)
FightGlobalPoverty (2 weeks ago)
Empowerment is a key theme in all of the global anti-poverty programs, such as in disease eradication, microcredit and the green revolution. Minor changes in sanitary habits and the use of drinking water can wipe out lethal waterborne diseases; minor changes in nutritional habits can wipe out vitamin-A deficiency blindness; and community volunteers can connect hundreds of thousands to countries' medical systems. That is what makes this video so special.

/watch?v=M2PgL7f9sdE

The One Campaign emphasizes that we can have a huge role in all of this because the developed world's resources drastically dwarf the 1/3 of humanity that lives on less than $2 per day. These programs do work. Massive diseases, like Measles, are being wiped out right now.
FightGlobalPoverty (2 weeks ago)
Thanks for the wonderful supportive comment, XXXxThemessiahxXXX. This channel has a very wide range of supporters, on all sides of the political spectrum and from diverse backgrounds, that are united in their support of foreign aid's humanitarian features. Welcome aboard.

My site draws heavily from UNICEF and MSF. They are amazing organizations that are saving lives around the world every day. The child mortality rate has drastically fallen throughout much of the world since 1990 and one day we will make many preventable diseases, severe malnutrition, and even hunger history so that every child may live to see his fifth birthday.

/watch?v=ALlj0T6UTq4
XXXxThemessiahxXXX (3 weeks ago)
Hello i have to say i support the one campaign heavily. Israel supports the one campaign and if possible i want to show more people about this wonderful projects the one campaign has done. I see so many things wrong in the world such as global poverty, children starving, people dying of diseases. It is very sad and i want to help make a difference. Telling people about these things and talking about it we all can make this world a better place for everyone. I will help spread the word about the one campaign.
antifaith82 (1 month ago)
I wish this channel didn't have to exist! (I mean that in a good way)
AsianDevelopmentBank (1 month ago)
Nice site. In Asia alone there are about 2 million people living on less than $2 a day . . . keep up the fight against poverty.
IrreducibleParadox (3 months ago)
Hey, thanks for the vitamin A video. I don't watch all the videos you send me or as many videos from the developing world as maybe I should. I guess I feel a little too stuck in my own situation. It was interesting though, and I think probably the best way to get me to watch something is to make a rare visit once in a while. Have a nice day!
liquidvitaminguru (4 months ago)
We must work toward ending hunger
FightGlobalPoverty (4 months ago)
Thanks for the beautiful comment; you have lived a very full life. Business and Economics are extremely materialistic fields but they can be used for caring, humanitarian purposes. Every child should get the chance to live and see his first birthday.

/watch?v=kDK1OaFvtls
1mealperday (4 months ago)
i am a simple soul who having lived under bridges and in a penthouse in NY, prefer the bridges. Life today offers too much and many partake and want more. Take the words (want and more ) out of the english language! my tag is the rest of the message.
FightGlobalPoverty (4 months ago)
Please watch my featured video closely. UNICEF has teamed up with the Red Cross in order to vaccinate 600 million people since 2001. This has reduced Measles deaths in Africa by 70%.

Diseases don't care if you call them *bs.* Smallpox used to brutally torture Africans. So did Guinea Worm Disease.
/watch?v=LtQ5JSW2eNk
/watch?v=gjQtFGkmyV8

PS
Development economists focus heavily on the *Human Development Index,* which includes life expectancy and mortality rates.
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