11-02-2007, 07:56
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Re: How "rich" are Accywebbers?
This is the bit that puts it into perspective for me.
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$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
$30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
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It's not how much you have as how much you can obtain with it that really counts. Those 25 fruit trees are worth a lot more than 15 apples even though they cost the same, if you know what I mean.
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