Many people see poverty in third world nations as a blemish on the human race. As proof that although our efforts are well intentioned in many regards they are severely lacking. Recently at a coffee shop we all got into a deep intellectual discussion on a topic of Africa and poverty. Then we discussed Haiti, Indonesia and other third world countries, the very bottom of the third world, where things might be getting better, but you could hardly tell unless someone had pointed out exactly where they were better and you would hate to think how they were ever any worse.

One gentleman in the group started explaining what he had seen while working in a large NGO overseas and some of the horrors seemed to really have moved him. His shocking comments on the problems with the human sex trade and the near slavery he witnessed was pretty alarming. After he spoke I said;

Indeed, Well you sure do not waste any time to getting to the meat of things do you? You have brought up a point that many never wish to address. Indeed poverty is a severe problem and I concur with what Bill Gates had said at Davos Conference and the Head of the World Bank as well. When you have billions of humans living on less than one dollar a day, well you have a problem. Indeed I too have often watched how economic enslavement is put into place by those who attempt to control the masses and in that regard which came first; the evil humans who caused the poverty or inept leaders who allowed it in the first place or the evil which ensued after supplies or units of trade became scarce?

You know if we as a nation can assist with our energies, monies and know how to build sewer treatment plants, schools, roads and water filtration, while Ill just bet we can make some headway and reach some milestones by 2012. If we all do a little, it would sure say a lot, as action speaks much louder than words. Think on this in 2006.