Have you complained about anything today?

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Have you complained about anything today?
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How many times?
Bet you cant count them!
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Were spoiled!
To put things into perspective
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Does studying annoy you?
Not them!
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Over 1 billion people (1,000,000,000) can not
read or even write their name.
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Hate veggies?
They starve from hunger.
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Six million children under the age of 5 die every
year as a result of hunger.
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Someone got you Adidas instead of Nike?
They have only one brand!
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Half of the world (3 billion people) live on less
than 2.00 a day.
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Tired of your parents taking care of you?
They dont have parents.
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80 of the diseases in the world are due to bad
water.
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Outgrown that house of yours?
Their choice
3 walls?
4 bedroom 3 baths 249,000
or 4?
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1/3 of the children in the world (640,000,000)
do not have access to adequate shelter.
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Plain
Some only dream of plain!
or
Flavored?
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Half of the children in the world do not have
access to clean drinking water.
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Bored of the same games?
They have no options.
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We spend 30 BILLION (30,000,000,000)on toys
each year. Yet, it would only cost 7 Billion to
provide clean water to the world for a year!
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They dont even have a closet!
Nothing good in your closet to wear?
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The wealth of the 48 poorest countries is LESS
than the wealth of the worlds 3 wealthiest men!
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One child dies every five seconds due to
hunger-related causes.
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Are you still complaining?
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Observe around you and be thankful for all that
you have in your lifetime
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We are fortunate we have much more than we need.
Lets try not to feed the endless cycle of
consumerism and immorality in which this modern
and advanced society forgets and ignores the
other 2/3s of our brothers and sisters.
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Let us complain less
and do more!
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But, what can we do?
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Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of
all child deaths worldwide.
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The World Health Organization estimates that
two-thirds of the world is under-fed or starving.
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Heres what we can do
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Our Challenge
1095 students/staff K - 12
600 community volunteers
6 two-hour work shifts
THE GOAL
500,000 meals!!
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We can only learn to love by giving.
Iris Murdoch
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Packing stations
weighing
sealing
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sorting
boxing
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Kindergarten helps out
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The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical
thread that holds us together.
Muhammad Yunus
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Vitamin fortified chicken flavoring
Freeze-dried vegetables
Soy product
Rice
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I
would hope that I would not have a single bit of
talent left and could say, I used everything You
gave me.
Erma Bombeck
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I cant believe God put us on this earth to be
ordinary.
Lou Holtz
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Loading pallets
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Alone we can do so little.
Together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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Under the Sign of the Cross
Gehlen Catholic School Kids Against Hunger 2007
Kuemper Catholic Schools Kids Against Hunger2008
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The food is delivered!
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The hungry of the world can teach us a lot. We
just have to look and listen.
Richard E. Seivert
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The only religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
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Are you up to the challenge?