I've just joined this pledge to sustain myself for under $2 a day and this is for 5 days! :O That comes up to $10 a week for 15 meals! Which roughly comes up to 0.60 per meal! :( It's a HUGE thing to me because I'm actually on a personal mission to gain weight!! And by eating meals that costs below $2 is pretty scary and seems quite impossible, especially that the average meal cost in Australia is $7-$10!! So in order to do this, I have to actually
...Steak (beef) and lamb are food products that I can't afford to have during that week! And it actually got me thinking on how fortunate and blessed I am for living in a developed country, for being raised in a middle-income family, for having parents who spoiled me endlessly when I was young and I never had to worry about money at all! :) But after seeing my house mate and classmate join this pledge to raise funds for the 1.3 billion people in Cambodia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), it actually started me thinking and being curious about what this whole thing is about! I didn't even want to try it at first because my first thought was that it's too daunting and troublesome. $5 is still a feasible amount a day, I think. But $2!?!?
And it's not $2 a meal! It's $2 A DAY! And it's winter now! It's freezing cold and I'm, most of the time, eating/snacking because winter makes me hungry! :( But after looking through the website and feeling so blessed about my circumstances, I've decided to do this to not only change my perspective but also to help raise funds for these people! :) Sorry about my ranting...the main point is that it seems quite impossible to achieve, but yet I (and many others) are all willing to give this a go! Why? Because we are hoping to raise some funds from this that will help to provide education to the people living in Cambodia and PNG! Education is one of the best ways to help them break out of this poverty cycle as most families rather sacrifice their children's education and use them to work in the fields or send them out to work to earn income, and their children grow up to be like their parents, and this is a repeated cycle! Almost all of these families do not have money to send their children to schools to pay the teachers' fees. Most students will even have to walk to their schools barefoot even though it's like 12356781256 km, but they are too poor to buy shoes or a bike! Help them to break this cycle!
There are TWO ways that you can help! ;)
1) Join me in this 1-week pledge to help raise funds for these people who don't have a choice but to live the way that they are living now.
Go to Live Below the Line to join and select the country that you live in! This pledge is only available for those living in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. So if that's not you...
2) DONATE $$ to support this cause! :)
$50 can be quite a lot of money to donate, especially since it's in AUD and I know the currency exchange may not be favourable to you! But you can donate any amount of money, really! Even $10 could mean a lot to these people! :)
- If you wish to support me in this pledge, you can go to my profile page to do so! https://www.livebelowtheline.com.au/me/adelynkhoo. :)
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Thank you! :) I will remember to keep posting on my progress on this pledge! Haha. I've somewhat created a meal timetable for this 1-week, starting May 6th - May 10th! It's 5 days! :O I'm feeling quite scared but I know that even if I feel hungry during that period, I have God sustaining me spiritually. And that's enough. ♥
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