Today, I’m participating in Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. 
This year’s issue, about which the day aims to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion, is poverty.
One of the best ways, of course, to raise awareness and stimulate discussion is to tell stories about the issue. Here are just a few sites that present stories about poverty:
- Local Stories of Poverty & Hunger
- Living with Poverty: Personal Stories
- Youth Concern Poverty Stories
- World Poverty Stories
- Poverty Stories Blog
- “I Escaped Poverty” Stories
And now, how about a solution, in the form of a future story: