Why would an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation decide to live on £1 per day? Laurie Lee is participating in Live Below the Line and raising awareness of extreme global poverty.

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Do you remember the scene in the movie Spiderman when Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben is dying in his arms? Uncle Ben provides words of wisdom to guide his young nephew: "With great power comes great responsibility."

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In May this year, I’m going to spend 5 days eating only what I can buy for £1(one pound)—the equivalent of the global extreme poverty line.

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This is the story of Alexandre Gafaranga, one of the millions of lives the Global Fund helped save the last decade.

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My hope for my annual letter is that it helps people connect to the choice we all have to make. Relatively small investments changed the future for hundreds of millions of small farm families. The choice now is this: Do we continue those investments so that the 1 billion people who remain poor benefit? Or do we tolerate a world in which one in seven people is undernourished, stunted, and in danger of starving to death?

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