'More then 20 000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.
8 000 children dead of malaria, 5 000 mothers and fathers dead of tuberculosis,
7 500 young adults dead of AIDS, and thousands more dead of diarrhea, respiratory infections
and other killer deseases that prey on bodies wrakened by chronic hunger.
The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial
bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water.
Currently, more than eight million people around the world die each year because
they are to poor to stay alive.
Since September 11, 2001 the United States has launched a war on terror, but it
has neglected the deeper causes of global instability. The 450 billion dollars
that the United States will spend this year on the military will never buy peace
if it continues to spend arround one thirtieth of that, just 15 billion dollars, to
address the plight of the world's poorest of the poor, whose societies are destabilized
by extreme poverty and thereby become havens of unrest, violence, and even global terrorism.'
Uit 'The End of poverty', geschreven door Jeffrey Sachs
'Als allen elkaar maar altijd wilden helpen, zou geen mens nog
geluk tekort hebben'
'Si tout le monde aurait la volonté d'aider autrui, plus personne ne serait malheureux'
'If everybody would care helping everyone, nobody would remain unhappy'
Menander (Menandros 342-291 BC)
Ons eerste project: “Lombok ” Ons tweede project: “ Shangrila ” Ons derde project: Visserstehuis “ De Bolle ” Ons vierde project: “ Women on Waves ”