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Previous: We See You as More than You Already Are | All blog entries Coming Attractions: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Movements that Start Small Can Change the World Movements that start small can change the world. This is shown in the recent film, Amazing Grace. It's about Henry William Wilberforce who in 1787 worked to build an anti-slavery movement. At first no one came to his meetings... Opposition to ending
slavery Wilberforce kept working. The movement grew and eventually slavery was abolished. The End Poverty Campaign started small. But it may have faster success for several reasons.... Latest additions: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 How Understanding Abstractions Can Save Hundreds of Millions of Lives - and Yours, Too We humans have trouble understanding abstractions. It's easier to move people to give a quarter to a beggar - even though we suspect such "donations" often go for alcohol or drugs - than to contribute to organizations that really help the homeless put their lives together. Moving people to end extreme poverty and hunger is harder, even when the fate of hundreds of millions of people - and our own survival - may depend on this. Why global poverty threatens
us The solution You Can Help End Global Hunger and Poverty by 2012 You can Join us today. Together, we can change the world. Previous blog: We See You as More than You Already Are | All blog entries Comments and Questions: greatchange@gmail.com Top of Page
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