Results for Live Below the Line

Results for Live Below the Line:

- Our campaign had a worldwide media reach of 25 million people, with key coverage from CNN, Huffington Post, LA Times, and Entertainment Tonight.

- Over 10,000 participants in 12 countries raised $1.6 million.

- Over 11,000 people were educated about extreme poverty from the Live Below the Line tour, which traveled to 60 schools/campuses over 60 days.

- 11 charity partners received crucial funds to help people lift themselves out of poverty, including GPP USA partner, CARE.

Full report:
http://www.livebelowtheline.com/workspace/downloads/impact-report.pdf

Sustainability Film Festival

Our film did not win but we were pretty close.

Superman

At the child care i work at one of the little boys who is 3 years old likes to dress up as superman and insists that he is superman (Lets face it what proof do i have that he is not) Today while the kids are getting picked up by their parents...

Me: "Superman why are you all the sudden sad ?"

Little Boy/Superman: (Takes his face out of his hands and turns to me looking impatient) "because i have to go get the bad guys."

There are Champions of Peace!

Having lived Below the Line

Results

Results

One thing i took away from this experience is that it was surprisingly not as hard as i thought and here is why:

1. The first two days i was pretty hungry but by the third day i was not hungry really at all. I think this was because my stomach size had adjusted to the smaller portions I was eating. (Yea crazy our stomachs can do that). 
2. When i did desperately want food, i was surprised to find out that it was not because my body did not have enough to eat it was because i wanted the taste of foods for example lasagna (Meg assured me that it really did not taste that good). 
3. Water. I was told a few years ago (by Meg) that a lot of the time you feel hungry you are actually thirsty. I have to say i now firmly believe it. Though i have to point out that many people don't have much access to extra water let alone clean water.
4. Lets face it i don't live in a developing country. So what are the differences that made eating under 1.50 a day easier for me then them; The fact that I was not exerting the long hours of manual labor to earn my 1.50 so i did not need as many calories as they would, I am not feeding a whole family off 1.50, and they also need to use there 1.50 for other expenses.   

I want to Thank everyone for supporting me while i Lived Below the Line whether it was financially, morally, or joining me (Kevin). You are all amazing and i am so lucky. I also would like to say that my goal of raising $200 for Global Poverty Project

It was a 100% Success. I would also like to thank Chris Gray for seeing a need in the world and doing something about it. You are a all super star! 


The end of extreme poverty can be achieved. The World Bank found the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has dropped from approx 52% in 1982 to 25% today. - LBL

We can be the difference. oh wait we have all ready started ;)

Day 5

Day 5 (Lets be honest i eat when i can so not really names anymore for meals)


Egg

18 oz of water 

Peanut butter
18 oz of water 

Cup of Rice
18 oz of water 

Two Carrots
18 oz of water 

Peanuts
18 oz of water  
 

Day 3 and 4

Day 3 was a blur to be honest i don't really remember what amounts of rice or eggs that day consisted of.

How ever day Day 4 was interesting. I had gone to the TED event, which lasted from 6am to 8pm but i thought no prob i will eat an egg and banana before i leave. And bring snacks like peanuts and carrots. I forgot them. So needless to say i broke the world record for stomach growling in the first half of the event.

Then they passed out snack gift bags which low and behold had a banana in it so i decided i would eat that banana for lunch and not eat the last one that i had for Friday. I then later ate my snacks for dinner.

Day 2

Key programs that fight AIDS, malaria and hunger were cut by 40%. Programs that promote long-term economic growth were chopped up to 30%. -LBL

Breakfast: Banana

18 oz of water

Lunch: 1 scrambled egg. (Still not really seeing much of a difference with no salt or pepper. I may just keep doing this after.)

18 oz of water

Snack: 30 Peanuts

 18 oz of water 

Snack: a non baby sized carrot.

18 oz of water

Dinner une: a cup of rice (you better believe i did not miss a grain)
18 oz of water


Ok today was a bit more crazy. I was in a hurry to go to work and only had time to grab peanuts and a Banana. It is safe to say i had to try really hard to stay cheerful while answering phones. Well and it was hard to stay awake. This hunger is making me more sleepy and this is supposed to be the week i stay up late and finish papers. That sucks a bit but then i imagine having to do hard labor all day while being this hungry and tried (Like so many do all over the world) and then i feel silly for ever complaining. It is time to show the Love and give a little.

Bobby Bailey - Live Below the Line Manifesto

Day 1

In 2011, February 19, the US put forward a motion to make huge cuts in this year's budget. Poverty-fighting, cost-effective programs - which make up less than one percent of the US budget - were sharply cut. - LBL 

Early Snack: Banana

18 oz of water

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg. (No salt or pepper is not real as big a deal as i would have thought.)

18 oz of water

Snack: 10 Peanuts

18 oz of water

Lunch: spoon full of peanut butter. 

 18 oz of water 

Snack: a non baby sized carrot.

18 oz of water

Snack: 10 Peanuts

18 oz of water (I am finding that if i drink more water i am a little less hungry.)
Dinner une: a cup of rice (you better believe i did not miss a grain)
18 oz of water
Dinner deux: a cup of rice (again)
18 oz of water
Late snack:  a non baby sized carrot.

It looks like a lot when i post it up here but trust my stomach. It is not. I could already tell I am getting grouchy and feel like I am yelling at people from a trash can. I need to work on that. 

Though I do need to say I am hungry but not really tempted that much. Perspective of other peoples situations relative to my own makes the completion of one hungry day feel Amazing!!!

Hugh Jackman Invites You To Live Below The Line

Living Below the Line The Shopping Trip

 

Kevin and i went shopping for our Living Below the Line meals on Friday. We went to Trader Joe's bought a jar of peanut butter (full of protein and a filling snack), a bag of peanuts (also full of protein and a filling snack it is like they both come from the same source or somthing),


a large bag of rice (for carbs, very filling, and lets face it my faveorit food of all time),

10 bananas (Brain food in the morning because students and Brains go well together Kinda like zombies and brains but students are not zombies or are they),

two bags of carrots (so we can have good eye sight.... well and so we have some veggies this week),



and a dozen eggs (and Kevin is brave he hates eggs but is going for it any way).




The total was $12.56. We split all of this between us and when you look at it together your stomach starts thinking Yea not enough for one day let alone a week. Here we go!

Live Below the Line

From May 16 – 20, 2011, we’ll be eating and drinking only as much per day as can be purchased for $1.50. In doing so, we will develop a better understanding of the challenges faced by people living in extreme poverty while raising funds for crucial anti-poverty initiatives.

Make this year the year YOU take action! To learn more visit my web page at: http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1105365&langPref=en-CA