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“Rewriting the Story of Poverty.”

On this Thanksgiving Day 2025, as gratitude fills our homes, we must face a truth we often avoid:

Poverty is not seasonal. It’s not glamorous. It is both visible and silent—enslaving individuals and communities, robbing potential and imprisoning creativity.

Poverty has a historiography—a story shaped by policies, prejudice, and systems. It has been protected by hegemony, the dominance of a narrative that tells us poverty is inevitable, natural, or deserved.

But today, I stand to say: poverty is neither destiny nor divine design. Poverty is a disease—and diseases can be cured.

My voice rises from unknown quarters, but that is where every true movement begins. And I speak to benefactors, philanthropists, and generous hearts across the world: hear this call. Not for charity, but for partnership. Not for pity, but for purpose.

Let Thanksgiving awaken us. Let gratitude become responsibility. Let compassion become strategy.

The Poverty Cured Movement is rewriting the story—replacing despair with design, scarcity with solutions, and silence with collective action.

Because the truth remains:

Poverty is not our future. Together, we will cure it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters around the world…

On this Thanksgiving Day 2025, as tables are filled, families are gathered, and gratitude is spoken aloud, we must also confront a truth that too often remains unspoken:

Poverty is not thankful. It is not festive. It is not seasonal.

Poverty is not sexy, nor is it glamorous. It is both clearly visible and simultaneously silent. It sits quietly beside abundance, even on a day like today. It enslaves individuals as well as communities. It robs potential and imprisons creativity. It steals opportunities before they ever take their first breath.

And yet, this year, I invite the world—not to guilt, but to awakening.

Because poverty is not an accident. Poverty has a historiography—a documented lineage, a story written through policy, prejudice, structures, and systems. There is a thread that connects past injustices to present inequities, and it has been woven intentionally through hegemony—the dominance of one narrative over all others, the silencing of voices that dare to say:

“There is another way.”

On this day of gratitude, we owe the world honesty:

Poverty has been shaped, named, and normalized by those who benefitted from its existence. But it can be reversed, redefined, and ultimately cured by those courageous enough to rewrite the narrative.

That is the mission of The Poverty Cured Movement.

That is the purpose of my work.

And yes—my voice rises from unknown quarters.

From rural soil.

From the margins where brilliance learns to grow in the shadows.

From the edges of the map where strategists are not expected to emerge and leaders are not expected to rise.

But history shows us something powerful:

Movements that shift nations rarely start in palaces.

They begin in wilderness places.

In stables.

In forgotten towns.

In kitchens.

In backroads.

In voices the world once ignored.

Today, on Thanksgiving 2025, I declare this with conviction:

Poverty is not destiny. Poverty is not ordained. Poverty is a disease—and diseases can be cured.

We cure it with vision.

We cure it with unity.

We cure it with intentional strategy.

We cure it by dismantling the ideological hegemony that says poverty is inevitable.

We cure it by rewriting the historiography of communities that were told they could never rise.

We cure it by releasing potential that poverty has suffocated for generations.

And we cure it by refusing to be silent.

So today, as the world gives thanks, let us also give thought.

Let us give understanding.

Let us give commitment.

Let us give ourselves to the work of transformation.

Because gratitude without responsibility is hollow.

And blessings without action are incomplete.

I invite benefactors, philanthropists, foundations, and global citizens everywhere to hear this call—not as charity, but as partnership…

Not as pity, but as purpose…

Not as relief, but as repair.

Let this Thanksgiving mark a turning point in our collective consciousness.

Let this be the year the world says:

Because the truth remains:

Poverty is not our inheritance.

Poverty is not our future.

Poverty is a disease—and together, we will cure it.

Thank you, and may this Thanksgiving awaken a global movement toward justice, healing, and transformation.

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“The Cure Has a Name — and It's Us.”

“Poverty is not beyond redemption, because people are not beyond redemption.”

- Mark Carven Olds, 2025

This is the moment where belief becomes embodiment.
Where we stop waiting for change — and become it.

When we root our work in dignity, when we see every person as sacred —
we move:

• from pity to partnership
• from crisis to covenant
• from spectator to strategist
• from problem-solving to people-restoring

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