Blog Action Day 08 – Poverty

Blog Action Day is an annual event which unties bloggers to raise awareness and promote discussion around a topic – in this case poverty.

I totally support the idea, and the fact that perhaps we can do something positive on a large scale – as well as in smaller groups during the rest of the year. But I also struggled to find some way of writing about poverty without sounding patronising – after all, I usually write about social media and gadgets, and although I’ve been pretty heavily in debt at times, I’ve never been unfortunate enough to slip into poverty.

There’s a list of charities and events on the Blog Action Day 2008 website (It’s not too late to join in!), but there’s a favourite charitable organisation of mine which isn’t present, so rather than talking a load of rubbish to try and keep you on the site and show you what a lovely, charitable person I am, I’d rather make a point of recommending anyone checks out the following link:

The Big Issue Foundation.

It’s an organisation that appeals to me particularly because it aims to empower homeless people to improve their situation by providing them with a way to earn money and self respect, and it also achieves this by making a magazine with international celebrities and often journalism and journalists who have the skills to work for any title they like. So stop reading this rubbish, and go and find out more about it.