Do More Mondays - #147 - Oxfam Canada

Today I bought $180 shoes to help me run better and over the weekend I spent $40 to be social at a lounge.  I do not feel guilty about how I spend my money because no one is asking me to.  I work for the things I have and I recognize my privileges, at the same time I know there is no such thing as equal opportunity and that life isn't fair.  These are some of the things that influence my weekly charity ~ there is always someone who has it worse and it is within my power to do more.

That is why this week I'm donating by purchasing a chicken from Oxfam Canada through their Unwrapped program.  They work to find lasting solutions to poverty in more than 20 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.  Gifts through Unwrapped help people living in poverty gain greater levels of self-sufficiency and control over their lives and the future of their communities.

Oxfam Canada works with people to secure their basic human rights, combining support to long-term development and humanitarian responses with research, advocacy and campaigning against the root causes of poverty and injustice.  Seventy per cent of the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty are women and girls.  Systematic gender discrimination is a major cause of poverty.  Oxfam Canada believes that ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.

I challenge anyone to do more.