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Two Dollar Challenge

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Two Dollar Challenge is an educational movement that engages students in the fight against global poverty

Website: http://www.twodollarchallenge.org/
Members: 57
Latest Activity: Jan 27

Get Ready for Challenge Week, 2010!

Nearly half of the World’s population lives on $2 per day. For one week we’re asking you to join them. This Challenge Week is an experience designed to offer students a glimpse of how the other half of the world lives. Participants are presented with the challenge of living on $2 a day for five days while following a number of other rules. Throughout this week students are able to raise both awareness about global poverty and funds to direct towards their own initiative. Students are empowered through the funds they raise and the networks they build with others who share in the experience.

During the month of April (from April 3 to April 30), college students across the country will participate in our initiative, directing Challenge Week on their respective campuses.

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Comment by Chris Temple on April 13, 2011 at 5:28pm: Hey everyone, thank you all for your participation in the TDC and the forums and blogs on MFI Connect. It has been really inciteful to follow your stories. I just found this campaign and thought you all might be interested too. www.livebelowtheline.com .

Keep this momentum going and continue to inspire and educate your peers around the world!

Thanks,

Chris Temple (Director of MFI Connect)

Comment by Laura Dick on April 4, 2011 at 11:07pm: Just to let everyone know-- you can post your blogs under the heading "blogs", above (under the green tab "Forums and Blogs"). This will make it easier for everyone else to comment on your posts!

Comment by Becky Lamm on April 4, 2011 at 10:35pm: Today at Dollar General I was able to buy pineapple slices, soup, peanuts, toothpaste, and deodorant for about $5. Now, thinking about that in the short term, I'm only doing this for a week. Cutting back on expenditures for a week is a lot easier than cutting back on expenditures for a year? 3 years? a lifetime? All I've had to eat today was a handful of peanuts. The remaining food I've saved for tomorrow and Wednesday. I'm wondering how I'm gonna make it through this week on so little. But after this week, that's it. I go back to being a college student, the uncertainty is only temporary for me. For others it's not. I can't imagine what it's like to live on such a small income. The rest of this week will give me a small insight into the lives of the poor. This insight will influence my own life. I have a feeling my perspective will be changed greatly by the end of this challenge.

Comment by Kerry Noble on April 4, 2011 at 10:26pm: In response to Dallys-Tom post: He is very insightful as to the variety of the power that $2 has in the world. So hard to believe that in the States and the Front Range of Colorado, there is not much power in $2!

Comment by Kerry Noble on April 4, 2011 at 10:23pm: What a first day. It was actually my birthday and the first one without a cake or a nice meal. It showed me how something like a birthday takes a different turn when you hit middle age and can't have a nice meal or glass of wine to celebrate another year of survival!

Comment by Dallys-Tom Medali on February 19, 2010 at 6:41am: There are some parts of the world where people are happy with $2 and can fulfill all their basic needs. There are other places where people don't even find a dollar because there is no economic activity. The key point is whether communities have access to water, food, health care, education, sustainable economic activity, etc. This is the kind of initiatives that raise global awareness about these issues. Keep it up!