Sustainable Sunday | 1 No Poverty

Edfu Foundation supports the United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The UN created these goals in 2016 with the objective to achieve all 17 goals by the year 2030 to improve the earth and humanity as a whole. - We invite you to explore and learn about these goals as we work to achieve them with partners around the world.

Defintion of Poverty

From Wikipedia.

Poverty is the state of not having enough material possessions or income for a person's basic needs.

Poverty may include social, economic, and political elements.

​Absolute poverty measures compare income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter.

Relative poverty measures when a person cannot meet a minimum level of living standards, compared to others in the same time and place. Therefore, the floor at which relative poverty is defined varies from one country to another, or from one society to another.

From the United Nations:

​More than 700 million people, or 10% of the world population, still live in extreme poverty today, struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few. The majority of people living on less than $1.90 a day live in sub-Saharan Africa. Worldwide, the poverty rate in rural areas is 17.2 per cent—more than three times higher than in urban areas. 
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For those who work, having a job does not guarantee a decent living. In fact, 8% of employed workers and their families worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 2018. One out of five children live in extreme poverty. Ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable groups is critical to reduce poverty.

Why ending poverty is important to EDFU Foundation​:

Part of EDFU's mission statement is to provide public health and improve the human condition. In order for humanity to improve we must end poverty in all in it's forms so that all beings have an opportunity to live healthy and productive lives without the effects of hunger, chronic disease and mental illness that are directly caused by poverty.  Poverty can also lead to poor sanitation which directly impacts the environment.

Our emphasis is on women and children. Poverty cannot be eliminated if we do not secure future generations.

What EDFU Foundation is doing to help end poverty:

​EDFU  Foundation is the ogranization behind the Bay Area Street Pantry, where we provide bags of groceries to those in need in the Oakland, CA, USA community. There are no requirement checks to receive a bag of food. Our goal is to eliminate food insecurity as well as hunger.

EDFU continues to work with, promote, fundraise, and sponsor organizations, tribes, and those in need around the world to help improve living conditions and provide basic needs, helping to end suffering and poverty.

What can you do to help?

Donate

If you are able to, please donate to EDFU Foundation. We need funding for our programs in order to continue the work that we do. All donations are tax deductible through our 501©3 sister organization, The Conservancy Corp.

We also accept donations through PayPal Giving, Facebook Donations, and by purchasing through Amazon Smile.

Learn more about the Ylê Asé de Yansã at their website or follow them on Instagram.

By helping this quilombo we are helping to end poverty by providing food and basic needs to these people, and securing a safe future for the children of the Ylê Asé de Yansã.

​Give to the Ylê Asé de Yansã

EDFU Foundation has partnered with the Ylê Asé de Yansã of Sao Paulo, Brazil to bring awareness to their struggles as they try to provide shelter, resources, healing, and education to their people. They have met a lot of resistance from their government in trying to secure land and rebuild their falling building for operations. They also have been greatly impacted by COVID-19. They could use your help! Donate to them through our site and select "Ylê Asé de Yansã" or through their campaign at JustGiving.

Volunteer

If you are able to volunteer, our food handout organization is always looking for volunteers!

The Bay Area Street Pantry operates on Tuesdays in Oakland, CA, USA. We need:

• Drivers from 9:30am-10am to pick up from the Alameda Foodbank and deliver it to the Melrose Library.
• We need volunteers at the Melrose library from 10am-11:30am to help pack bags of food and help clean up.
• We need volunteers at the Melrose Library from 11:30am-1:30pm to help hand out bags of food and put away the supplies.
  

Volunteer Form

For more information or to inquire about driving and volunteering, please email: [email protected]

Checkpoint

What does poverty mean to you?

How does poverty effect you and your community?

What are you doing to improve poverty in your area or for the world?

What can we do to end poverty in all it's forms by 2030?

​Please leave your answers below in the comments.