WORLD PEACE

Alternative Gifts International is the perfect gift for so many people. For the person who has everything, for the person with special ties to a country or issue, for someone who is tender-hearted.

There are many different projects to choose from; everything from helping child prostitutes in Ind...moreia to helping women in the U.S. learn basic work skills. See this page: http://www.altgifts.org/projects/ for a general overview of this year's projects.

Why we should give:

If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:

80 would live in substandard housing

67 would be unable to read

50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation

33 would be without access to a safe water supply

39 would lack access to improved sanitation

24 would not have any electricity (And of the 76 that do
have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)

7 people would have access to the Internet

1 would have a college education

1 would have HIV

2 would be near birth; 1 near death

5 would control 32% of the entire world’s wealth; all 5 would be US citizens

33 would be receiving --and attempting to live on-- only 3% of the income of “the village”