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How to help the Borgen Project help to reduce the negative impact of global poverty.

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Submitted by Mike3620 on Sun, 2018-04-29 01:51
The Third-World Photo: Michael Coghlan/Flicker
 
The Borgen Project is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that is dedicated to conducting lobbying efforts to fix the root causes of global poverty. Two of the major issues that the Borgen Project is currently lobbying for are: a.) global literacy programs and 2.) affordable Internet access for people who live in the third-world. 
 
The READ Act is a piece of legislation that is currently under consideration and has already been ratified in the House of Representatives. Once this act becomes law, America will help to run literacy programs in the third-world. These programs reduce the risk of people in the third-world becoming radicalized by terror groups that offer dangerous dogma in addition to education. Anybody who wants to help ensure that the READ Act gets turned into law should go on to the Borgen Project’s website to contact their elected officials and express support for the READ Act.
 
The Digital GAP Act is a piece of legislation that attempts to helps nations overcome poverty by providing third-world countries with affordable Internet access. Such access ensures that people living in the third-world have access to information that is needed to improve their quality of life while giving the poorest people in the world the ability to compete in the global marketplace without losing much-needed revenue to the middleman that they now have to rely on to sell goods and services internationally. People who are concerned about affordable Internet access can go on to the Borgen Project’s website to contact their elected officials and express support for the Digital GAP Act.
 
The Borgen Project keeps a list of some of the key pieces of legislation that affect people in the third-world. Anybody who wants to help people living in impoverished areas of the world should check out the Borgen Project to send an e-mail message to their elected officials to let them know that helping reduce poverty is something that concerns them.
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