Creative Corners - Our Work

In Perspective

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it NOW."

(Goethe)

IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE of 100 PEOPLE

If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town with 100 people, it would look something like this:

57 Asians 21 Europeans 5 US Americans and Canadians 8 Latin Americans 8 Africans
52 women
48 men
82 would be non-white
18 white
89 heterosexual
11 homosexual
5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth, and all of them would be US citizens
80 would live in substandard housing
24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
67 would be unable to read
1 (only one) would have a college education.
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
33 would be without access to a safe water supply
1 would have HIV
1 near death
2 would be near birth
7 people would have access to the Internet

This morning, if you woke up healthy, then you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced a war, a loneliness of an imprisonment, torture or a famine, you are happier, than 500 million persons in this world.

If there is a meal in your refrigerator,
if you are dressed and have got shoes,
if you have a bed and a roof above your head,
you are better off, than 75% of people in this world.

If you have a bank account,
money in your purse
and there is change in your coin box,
you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.

Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like nobody's watching,
Sing like nobody's listening,
Be surprised, like you were born yesterday,
Tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything,
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

This is your Village!
And you are able to make changes!
Hasten to explore it!