A week of extremes…

26 August 2011 | Posted by julia in All Good News, General

Like many of you we’ve been taking part in the Live Below The Line challenge this week. Living on $2.25 was a pretty daunting prospect. It’s an amount that represents the amount that someone living in extreme poverty in New Zealand would have to live on.

Although we only had to make this stretch for food and drink, the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty globally have this equivalent amount to cover everything (health, housing, transport, food, education etc). We also only lived on $2.25 for a week, rather than being an everyday reality.

For us it has just been a (lets face it very comfortable) peep into living below the poverty line, but it has shown us things we’d never (or could have never) even considered about the poverty line before.

Apart from the hunger pains and headaches, we’ve noticed real changes in concentration, mental clarity and even sleep.

To all those who sponsored us, a big thank you. Your donation will be going to the Global Poverty Project one of the five charities working together on this. If you bought a bunch of bananas this week, thank you too. We’re donating 10c for every bunch of bananas sold this week to Live Below the Line.

On the flip side we also attended the TVNZ New Zealand Marketing awards 2011, as we were a finalist for the sustainability marketing award. Supping on water and eating brown rice we were stoked to be announced the winners and took home this hunk of metal.

Choice end to the week really.

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