“I grew up in England in a relatively poor but adequate home, and with the benefit of good health and a great education…Even as I took my Christian faith seriously, I failed to make the connections between God’s call to love and grace, and His call to justice and mercy, until the horrors of extreme poverty finally impinged on my consciousness. I wonder why it took so long? Perhaps being comfortable, and being satisfied with religious busy work, became all-consuming. We are all somewhat self-centered after all aren’t we? In any case, my route into beginning to understand the crisis of poverty started with learning about microfinance, and the possibilities for permanent poverty relief through micro enterprise. As a technology executive in a large financial services company, this appealed to me, and made me start to realize I could actually contribute to a solution…The exciting next question for me, as I approach retirement, is how can I apply all the gifts and experience God has given me so that I can give back some of the many years of inactivity of my earlier life?”

-Graham Seel, member of The ONE Campaign, Clayton, CA

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