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Empowering the Poor: Uniting for Justice and Dignity

This campaign focuses on raising awareness and taking action on poverty issues in line with our Baptismal Covenant. It aims to educate, reflect, and inspire individuals and groups to support the rights of all people regardless of their social standing. By examining the global and local impact of poverty, the campaign seeks to empower communities to make a difference and advocate for change.

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Empowering the Poor: Uniting for Justice and Dignity

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  1. Keeping the Poor with Us

  2. Fulfill Resolution 2013-1. • ALL Diocesan Committees and Groups; • Include at ALL meetings; • For 3 consecutive months; • “How will what we are doing here affect or involve people living in poverty?”

  3. Purpose of Campaign • Experience& better understand poverty. • Reflecton Baptismal Covenant & personal call. • Respondwith action that supports the rights of ALL of God’s children.

  4. Our Baptismal Covenant • To seek and serve Christin all people • To strive for justice and and to respect the dignity ofall people.

  5. A Human Rights Perspective

  6. Background

  7. Lessons Learned • The poor are often invisible & forgotten. • Poverty is overwhelming. • Preconceived notions blind us. • We need to tackle the underlying causes

  8. What About Today? • Most people below poverty line since 1959 • 20%of children in US lack steady access to sufficient food. • Over 50 millionAmericans are food insecure.

  9. A Closer Look at the Rise in Poverty • Increase in extreme poverty • Increase in people receiving only food stamps • Near poor rose to more than 103 million people

  10. Facts in New Jersey • Using Federal Standard: 11.4% under poverty line • Based on NJ Cost of Living: Roughly 25%: 1 in 4

  11. Our Response in NJ • Roughly 400 food banks • Over 150 homeless shelters • Reactive not proactive

  12. Global Poverty • Decline in extreme poverty and hunger. • International commitment.

  13. Millennium Development Goals

  14. Make Poverty a Human Rights Issue • The Universal Declaration • of Human Rights, • UN General Assembly 1948

  15. Archbishop Tutu Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  16. Promote Hope • Empowerment • Advocacy • Accountability

  17. “The arc of the moral universe is long… …but it bends towards justice.”

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