CHARITY | São Tomé e Príncipe - Your upvote can make a difference! | #1
Poverty
I'll start with some facts about São Tomé e Príncipe:
- The United Nations revealed in 2016 that 70% of children are poor and socially vulnerable.
- 66% of the population lives below the poverty line (2009 est.)
- 10% of people are under nurtured
A children with his toy. Source
The list goes on and on. São Tomé is a tourist destination because it's a bit of heaven on earth, and it's not a cheap destination. And yet, somehow the money always goes to the same pockets... Tourist resorts, oil industries... Why?
In about two months I'll be travelling there, as a common tourist. I'll be gathering all kinds of donations, clothes, school bags, drawing pencils, books, whatever I can give to the kids there. I'll give some cash as well. I thought you guys could help me raising a small fund.
Steem charity
STEEM seems the perfect way of gathering some cash donate to some charity institutions there. In hand. And I count on you to help me! Here's my plan:
- I'll write a weekly post about São Tomé - Just some pictures and descriptions, presenting São Tomé and its beautiful landscapes. @sisou is going to be a 100% beneficiary of the rewards, as a charity account.
- HELP! - I count on you to upvote these posts like there's no tomorrow, resteem them, pump them with bots, whatever. Just help!
- Cash out - Some days before my departure, I'll cash out the SBD to EURO.
- Deliver - The happy moment I'll be delivering the stuff, thanks to us all!
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FAQ
- What will you do with the Steem Power?
Honestly, I still don't know. Maybe I will delegate it to another charity project. Maybe I power down and make a money transfer to São Tomé 13 weeks after. Maybe I start another charity project with the @sisou account. I'm open to suggestions!
- Can I donate in other ways?
Sure, I created some addresses for donations in crypto:
Bitcoin (BTC): 16PPGv5WipSvQgqmqaZEe8iCMAavzt5bZL
Ethereum (ETH): 0xb37E3A39ad64C8E772090E50C09d88f8761c1567
Litecoin (LTC): LLBsMBMWkrCygHmJssqwbvNsoKaZPuUREM
ZCash (ZEC): t1VbM7k6VngGbu953nzZWuTTgRo2G1oBRAT
- Can I help with cash? Or with physical things?
Contact me in telegram (@zpedro) and I can give you an address you can send stuff or money.
- Which institutions will you help?
I still don't know. I'm researching and I'm open to suggestions. If we can gather a lot of money I'll probably split it and donate to several institutions.
It is extremely sad poverty
Czerwony Salut! ‘Tis good we have people helping the poor of the World, especially the Third World, where their gov’ts refuse to help. Resteemed.
I don't really know the economical reality of São Tomé, but it's strange that such luxury resorts coexist with extreme poverty. The same happens in Cape Verde. I mean, doesn't the tourism help the country itself?
I'll be researching this and post about it on the next weeks.
The Tourist “Industry” is mainly an industry of Unproductive Labor. That is to say that the industry and its workers are paid on Revenue and not on Capital. To go further, Capital is being generated in Tourism; some Capital in the World is reallocated here as to keep it alive and the Tourist “Industry” quickly spends it to stay afloat.
The Tourist “Industry” however relies on productive labor of other industries like Construction and Agriculture. These reproduces Capital that helps feed back into the market so it can even reproduce itself. However, depending upon where the Tourist “Industry” contacts to get their supplies, that place will have their Capital reproduced. São Tomé e Principe’s Industry are screwed over as the Tourist “Industry” doesn’t support them nor allocate the Capital to these industries as to generate local commodities to their satisfaction.
That’s why “poverty and wealth” can exist on this level, because they don’t intermix they discriminate against each other so highly there that their existences seem independent of the other. But rather that they are closely dependent and correlative of each other for them to exist. And these islands showcase how the Global Rich benefits off the Global Poor - the poor’s downtrodden existence gives the rich’s existence an easier time to float by unharmed.
This makes sense, although my economical knowledge probably isn't enough to debate on other possible explanations on what's happening there :) thank you sir!
Here’s a resource yah can use to start the education towards knowing economy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVBfIU1_zO-P_R9keEGdDHQ
Otherwise, I generally recommend reading Smith, then Ricardo then Marx in that order when learning about Economy and Political Economy. Those three share a lot in common, but one after the other expands and adds ideas the other hadn’t from their predeccesor. I consider Cockshott over Harvey because Cockshott can back up his claims empirically and rationally, Harvey on a lesser level.
Thank you! I'll check them :)
Parabéns pela iniciativa! Upvote and resteem!
Obrigado! Todos juntos vamos conseguir!
Boa iniciativa!
It's a good thing trying to reach out man.
May God bless and multiply the resources that will be generated.
Sorry to disagree since I believe resources are finite... But we are able to make the most of them, and this is not happening in São Tomé...
Thanks for the help! :)
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God bless your heart for deciding to help out. Giving love to those who are really deserving of it is what makes life beautiful
We are all humans! We all deserve the same :) Steem is an incredible platform to mitigate the social-economical differences we find in São Tomé and many other african countries
Apoiado!
Parabéns pela iniciativa!
Somos chamados para equilibrar as injustiças.
ptgram power
Obrigado casberp e ptgram power! Vocês são incríveis!
Opa! Privilégio é nosso! Projetos TOP devem ser apoiados sempre!
Voted to help the cause, found in the IFC Discord room, let them know on your next post and I will try to stop by again and vote.
Thank you so much!
Óptima ideia! Daqui a quantas semanas vais?
Não queria deixar clara a data de partida no blockchain. Mas pergunta-me no telegram :)