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The unfortunate reality is that 1.5 billion people live on $1.75 a day or less. As a plump and well-fed Westerner, IB次元官网网址檝e been challenged to do the same and see how it feels. I have to live for five days on less than a cup of coffee a day. Pretty much rice and beans.

IB次元官网网址檝e done it before and itB次元官网网址檚 very hard. No more food or drink for pleasure, for comfort. Eating just to stay alive. Profoundly bland, low in nutrition. No variety. Think how often you enjoy the taste of your food, look forward to your meal. Now imagine an amorphous lump of cooked grains two or three times a day. Nothing green, no meat, no fruit. Day after day. This is the reality for far too many and itB次元官网网址檒l be mine for five days.

Find someone doing Live Below the Line and be generous, because while they endure this for five days, for 1.5 billion itB次元官网网址檚 never-ending; a preventable reality.

Nathaniel Poole, Victoria