Thousands of Bloggers Tackle Poverty for Blog Action Day 2008

Last Friday, Chris Garrett asked what you are doing for Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty.

If every blogger involved in the annual October 15 event would have left a comment at Chris’s post, there would be well over 10,000 of them.

And yet, if every person living in poverty were to comment, there would be more than 3 BILLION comments.

Can you fathom it?

I am grateful to be an assistant event coordinator for Blog Action Day this year. It has broken my spirit several times over to consider the magnitiude and subject matter of the effort.

Already, Blog Action Day 2008 has been graced by many bloggers who do grasp the global problem of poverty, at least to some extent (for who can really plumb its depths?):

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There are thousands of other wonderful posts around the Web popping up right now.

Blog Action Day is a prime example of the power of the Web and blogging to make a positive difference in the world.

Visit BlogActionDay.org for event news and information on how you can participate in the discussion about and fight against poverty.

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