From April 14-16, a group of Point Loma Nazarene University students spent their time sleeping in cardboard shanties, boiling their drinking water, and living on just $2 a day. It’s was all part of the Two Dollar Challenge, an educational movement that engages students in the fight against global and domestic poverty. This year marks PLNU’s second time participating in the Two Dollar Challenge, and about 30 students participated.
The Two Dollar Challenge asks students to live on the same amount of money as millions of those living in poverty around the world. They must also abide by rules designed to simulate poverty. Participants are not allowed to shower or bathe, may only have two outfits of clothing, and can’t use their campus meal plans or accept free food from others.
You need to do things like this everywhere to bring about awareness.There are people who don't get a single morsel every day. We just listen to news, read in paper and just go about our usual ways. Nowadays the kids too take such things for granted. But it is not so. I think more education institutions had to do things like this.
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