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Live Below the Line is an annual anti-poverty campaign, which challenges participants to feed themselves on the equivalent of the extreme poverty line for five days.〔https://www.livebelowtheline.com.au〕 The goal of Live Below the Line is to raise widespread awareness by enabling participants to gain a small insight into some of the hardships faced by those that live in extreme poverty. Live Below the Line also raises money for poverty reduction projects across the globe.〔https://www.livebelowtheline.com.au/pages/why〕 The campaign began in Melbourne, Australia in 2010 and has since spread to the UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada, and Columbia.〔https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk-how-did-it-all-start/〕 In 2012 the campaign is ran from 4 May to 8 May in Australia, and 27 April to 1 May in the UK and USA. It launched in New Zealand September.〔https://www.livebelowtheline.com/nz-coming-soon〕 ==History== The concept of Live Below the Line was born in the back yard of a Melbourne share house by two friends - Rich Fleming and Nick Allardice - over a few drinks one evening in late 2009. Both were passionate about fighting poverty, and had already been doing so for a number of years - but together they were worried at our ability to really understand at an emotional level the realities of extreme poverty. One was from the Global Poverty Project, one from the Oaktree Foundation - and together they plotted the creation of a campaign that could simultaneously help tens of thousands of Australians begin to understand and connect with the issue of extreme poverty whilst also providing a platform for creating incredible change for the worlds' poor. Seeing an incredible opportunity to engage huge numbers of people with the realities of extreme poverty whilst also achieving really substantial and significant outcomes in anti-poverty initiatives, they came together to create Live Below the Line. Live Below the Line was officially born in June 2010, with the first campaign running from August 2–6. In its first year alone all expectations were exceeded, with over 2000 people participating, raising over $520,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.livebelowtheline.com.au/about/whos-behind-it )〕 The Live Below the Line challenge has been taken by a number of international celebrities, including actors Hugh Jackman, Ben Affleck, Tom Hiddleston, and singer Josh Groban. Within Australia, the challenge has been taken by Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten,〔https://twitter.com/billshortenmp/status/463902048212090882〕 former Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan,〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii1vdNI_n4Y〕 actors Stephen Curry and Rhiannon Fish, Masterchef Australia winners Julie Goodwin and Kate Bracks,〔https://d2kjac6qzis6z7.cloudfront.net/files/Australian+celebrities+to+Live+Below+The+Line.pdf〕 musicians Lindsay McDougall and Sarah McLeod, radio hosts Alex Dyson and Veronica Milsom,〔http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/444016/local-musicians-triple-j-presenters-live-below-the-poverty-line-for-charity.htm〕 and 2011 Australian of the Year Simon McKeon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Live Below the Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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