Conclusion

For the past few months, we have been posting weekly about different global issues. The purpose of this blog is to inform you and raise awareness about human rights, poverty, etc. As Chriatians, one of our tasks given to us is to protect God's creation and help each other.
You may think protecting nature may be impossible, but one simple act may mean a lot. For example, picking up a piece of trash you see on the streets might make a small change to our world.
As for helping one another, we should help others according to their needs. Jesus did not take the nature of a king but chose to be a servant to this world. We should follow his example and serve the world.
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Child Labor Response/Reflection

Child labor is a form of modern slavery. Think of all those children, all 168 million of them, that are deprived of their childhood and freedom. If we do not do anything about this issue, child labor will continue to exist in the world. Poverty is one of the main reasons that child labor occurs. So, to efficiently tackle this problem, we first must deal with the cycle of poverty. There are children in Africa that harvest cocoa to be made into chocolate. Fair trade chocolate is chocolate that does not use child labor in its manufacturing process. Have you ever thought about how a child laborer's life is like? Back breaking, sweaty, hazardous work. 85 million children work in those conditions. We ask you to spread the this issue to your family, friends, neighbors, etc. That is what God would like from our society - to help those who are oppressed and do not have a voice. We have a voice. We need to use that voice to change the world around us. One voice may be tiny and insignificant, but with a thousand voices, the world can hear us clearly. Justice should be brought to this.


Proverbs 21:15
When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, "let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

Forever 21 uses forced child labor in cotton.
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-forever-21-to-stop-forced-child-labor-in-cotton

Poverty Global Issues Response/Reflection

For the past few months, this blog has identified many global issues and gave you sufficient information on those problems. From now on, we would reflect on these global issues based on Biblical perspectives and analyze what our response/actions should be.

Poverty is not an issue that could be broken by those who are actually living in poverty, but could only be changed by wealthier people who are willing to step up and make change to our world.  However, our selfishness has blinded our eyes from seeing poverty as an issue. Almost all of us know how to help this global issue, but because we live too comfortable we don't want to lose what we have now. The only solution is to step out of our own comfort zones and reach out to those that needed our help. Jesus was willing to become a servant of us and washed the disciples' feet. He did not think that the sick were dirty and accepted the untouchables as children of God. Jesus came down from heaven to set a perfect example for us to follow. How could we not help the poor even when the King himself came down to help all of us?

Poverty could never be broken because of humans' sinful nature: selfishness an greed. We are never satisfied with what we have now and wanting more wealth and riches. Have you ever thought about those families who live on 1 USD a day? You would WANT more money, but they actually NEED the money to survive.

Bible Verse #1: 
There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land. - Deuteronomy 15:11

Bible Verse #2
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. - Psalm 82:3-4

God tells us many times in the Bible to stand up and help the needy. How can we ignore it these verses all the time? Poverty is a very important issue and we should try our very best to end this cycle. Even though poverty will never end in our world, we should still reach out and help the poor.