My live below the line experience.
My facebook friends have been subjected to daily hunger posts from me and are probably suffering from Live Below the Line fatigue by now. On the last day, food is all I can think of, and so it might be beneficial to remind myself why on earth I signed up for this and my experiences while completing it. The live below challenge is to eat and drink for $2.25 per day. This amount has been adjusted to the New Zealand economic environment from the global extreme poverty line figure of $1.25US per day, which more than a billion people live on. The idea is to raise money for an anti-poverty organisation, and I chose ADC who is helping break the cycle of poverty in Myanmar and Malawi. When Nick and I were in India we saw a lot of people living below the line. One image that I won’t be able to get out of my head anytime soon was of a man suffering from leprosy losing the coins we had given him through the stumps of his fingers and scraping his barely there digit...