The document discusses how people can come together to help others in need. It emphasizes that we are all part of the same human family and that love and cooperation are needed to make the world a better place. It encourages taking action by lending a helping hand to those suffering so their lives can become stronger and free. It stresses we all must work to build a brighter future just by making small changes as individuals.
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1. AND SO SO LUCKY! Give thanks! Help others! We are the World
67. 50 would suffer from mal-nutrition, 1 would be near death, l near birth.
68. 1 would have a college education, 1 would own a computer.
69. Education and pay for people 18 and older (1998): No high school diploma $16,124 High school diploma $22,895 Some college, no degree $24,804 Associate degree $29,872 Bachelor’s degree $40,478 Master’s degree $51,183 Doctoral degree $77,445 Professional degree $95,148 Does it pay to go to school?
70. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
71. If you have a non-dirt floor in the place you live, you belong to the upper half of the world’s most prosperous people.
72. If you have a window, a door and more than one room, you belong to the upper 20 percent of the world’s richest people.
73. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
74. If you can attend church without fear of harassment, arrest or torture, or death, you are more blessed than 3 billion people in the world.
75. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on you back, a roof over head and a place to sleep you are richer than 57% of this world.
76. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish some place you are among the top 8% of the world’s most wealthy.
77. If your parents are still alive and still married you are very rare, even here in the United States and Canada.
78. Regardless of where you live, if you can read and you have a pair of shoes, a change of underwear and can choose from two or more foods to eat, you belong to the top 10 percent of the world’s most wealthy.