This morning I stumbled upon a very interesting website called: http://www.globalrichlist.com/.
The site calculates your rank in the world’s ‘rich-list’. Suffice to say that we are incredibly more wealthy than we realise when compared to the rest of the world.
More from the site:
- $8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
- $30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
- $73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
- $2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
It makes you think doesn’t it.
Crazy! Great reminder.
Posted by PaisleyJade | April 21, 2009, 1:50 pmSobering!
Posted by Sophie | April 21, 2009, 9:26 pmWhat an eye opener I have been considering this lately, since losing my job ive been quite down to say the least, but really im so truely wealthy & blessed in every way and in every day.
Posted by Rhys | April 21, 2009, 11:40 pmMakes you think, that’s for sure!
Posted by sewfunky | April 22, 2009, 8:43 amInteresting, put’s me in the top 8%. Apparently if all the wealth was split evenly every last person on the planet would be worth $3 million.
Posted by Kevin Luke | March 13, 2010, 6:12 pm