The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
This is all i know how to think of right now.
That and the fact that there is a solution… 
i’m in an in-between place, these last few days, of seeing my Cambodia change phnomenally in the MONTH that i was out-of-country (seriously… it’s tangible, noticeable.) … but also realising that just because there is less trash on the streets and more Lexus SUV’s… doesn’t mean that more people are drinking clean water from the tap or are able to write their names or feel confident that their houses will survive this rainy season.
Hmm… learning and praying into what it means for poverty to be eliminated. There’s nothing wrong with driving lovely cars and having nice clothes and going out for a meal; these things make life lovely and exciting and are ways that we connect and do community! These things in and of themselves are fine and are not my complaint, my confusion, my…??
… what i’m just musing is this: what does the elimination of poverty actually look like? (at least here in my context in Cambodia?)
When will I not have to brush my teeth with bottled water so I don’t get cholera? When will fathers stop selling their daughters into brothels to pay for a new tv set? (for real.) When will US$90 a month not be a decent salary anymore? When will every single mama go to sleep with a full belly and a full heart, knowing that their children will get fed three times tomorrow? When will every road victim with their femur bone smashed through their skin, bleeding to death, be treated – without question – by qualified doctors? When will every kid have the guts to dream that they can be a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, an accountant, a social worker, a counsellor, a… whatever… and that not be laughable… but what we dream for them too?
Just musing… dreaming… getting excited