You will receive an acknowledgement letter via email immediately after you submit your donation.Due to the overwhelming response from donors, we are only able to accept donations via credit card or ACH transfer. Opinion Columnist. If you're depressed by the state of the world, let me toss out an idea: In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been the best year ever.The bad things that you fret about are true.
It boosts opportunities for everyone, especially women and girls. Readers have so far donated more than $1.6 million to those organizations, saving and transforming lives at home and around the world.So I promise to tear my hair out every other day, but let's interrupt our gloom for a nanosecond to note what historians may eventually see as the most important trend in the world in the early 21st century: our progress toward elimination of hideous diseases, illiteracy and the most extreme poverty.When I was born in 1959, a majority of the world's population had always been illiterate and lived in extreme poverty. As I’ve written in a recent book, “Tightrope,” a quarter of the children on my old No. That portion has plunged to less than 10% of the world's population now.Every day for a decade, newspapers could have carried the headline "Another 170,000 Moved Out of Extreme Poverty Yesterday." By Nicholas Kristof Wednesday Jan 1, 2020 at 12:01 AM. Or if one uses a higher threshold, the headline could have been: "The Number of People Living on More Than $10 a Day Increased by 245,000 Yesterday. Millions of people living paycheck to paycheck are now unemployed, shelters are experiencing dramatic spikes in the number of people seeking emergency housing and many of our most vulnerable neighbors have lost access to food.FareStart and its Catalyst Kitchens members are producing nearly 250,000 meals per week to meet the increased community demand for hunger relief at emergency shelters, hospitals, recovery centers and quarantined isolation sites and have the capacity to dramatically scale up, funds permitting.Their support includes delivering prepared meals to vulnerable populations, assembling nutritious take-home meal kits, transforming restaurant space to serve as production kitchens, collaborating with local restaurants to feed the community and creating food maps to track publicly available meals for the food insecure.The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
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