DAY 3 - Live Below The Line Challenge

Dinner - plain pasta and tomato sauce

Day 3 - half way there now Today's menu included a small amount of porridge again for breakfast, leftover chapati and baked beans for lunch and plain pasta and tomato sauce for dinner. I have felt very tired again today and have had bad headaches however I keep thinking how I am helping to fight global poverty and end child deaths from malaria which makes it all worth it. If you would like to sponsor me to live below the line on £1 a day please visit my page by following this link ‪#‎belowtheline‬ https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/shani

DAY 2 - Live Below The Line Challenge

Dinner - homemade chapatis and baked beans

Today's menu has consisted of a very minuscule amount of porridge for breakfast, leftover spanish omelette for lunch (from yesterday) and homemade chapatis and baked beans for dinner which I am very happy to say was my first filling meal in the last two days! The others have only touched the sides and left me feeling hungry a couple of hours later. Also happy to have been taught how to make chapatis by my host family in Tanzania last year. Delicious! How I have missed them. Still feeling very tired and drained but focusing on all the good things the money raised will help to achieve. When living on a £1 a day its interesting how you don't waste even a scrap of food and how your sense of smell becomes a lot stronger. Only 3 more days to go! Thanks for all the support. https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/shani

Some Reasons Why I am Taking up the Live Below the Line Challenge...

Millennium Development Goal no 6 - combat HIV/Aids, Malaria and other diseases

After volunteering in Tanzania last year with ICS I learnt how Malaria can affect a whole family. The costs of medicine even I found to be expensive so I could see how financially it can put a whole family at risk if one child needs urgent medical treatment and assistance. Families who already are living in poverty have to skip meals to be able to pay for medicine and very rarely are able to recover so become stuck in a trap with no means of escape.

DAY 1 - Live Below The Line Challenge

Breakfast - 30g Porridge

Lunch - Sweet Potato and Chickpea Curry

Dinner - Potato Omelette

The first day has certainly been challenging. I have felt hungry, very tired and weak and difficult to concentrate. I am trying to imagine eating this much and then having to walk 6km to fetch water or go without one of the meals to pay for medicine for a sick child. I am starting to realise just how difficult it can be for billions of people around the world who live below the poverty line every day. It is a very scary thought! Thanks for all the support and donations so far (£280). It is certainly helping me to keep going. There is still time if you would like to donate at https://www.livebelowtheline.com/me/shani

Live Below The Line Challenge Begins!!!

My food budget

Tomorrow I begin the Live Below The Line Challenge to eat and drink on £1 a day for 5 days.  The above picture shows the food I have brought for the challenge which is very basic. Every morning for breakfast I will have porridge and for lunch/dinner I will be cooking meals including egg fried rice, sweet potato curry and homemade chapati (thanks to my Tanzanian host family for teaching me) and baked beans. I am looking forward to the challenge but know it will be difficult but also an interesting experience. So far I have managed to raise an amazing £235 for Malaria No More and collectively the challenge in the UK has so far raised £254,848! :-)