where is our passion?

if you don't know this about me aleady, i will say it again for all of you. i am passionate about helping people here in America and those overseas. i think that as a Christian, well forget that. it is not contingent on the fact that i am a Christian, it is based upon being a human being. i have been given much and i believe that in return, i have much to give. it is a chief responsibility for myself and for us collectively, as inhabitants of this earth.
today i read something that was written by sex workers in Zambia. it brakes my heart that someone in the twenty first century has to speak such words.

"AIDS may kill me in years, but hunger will kill my family tomorrow."

this is not necessary. it is not acceptable. until we do something about poverty and sickness around the world, we have failed our fellow citizens, and we should all be held personally accountable.