The document is a song calling on people to come together as one and help others in need. It encourages giving to help save lives and make the world a better place. It emphasizes that through unity and helping each other, positive change can happen.

1. AND SO SO
LUCKY!
Give thanks!
Help others!

2. There comes a time when we heed a
certain call

3. When the world must come together as one

4. There are people dying

5. and it’s time to lend a hand to life

6. The greatest gift of all

7. We can’t go on pretending day by day

8. That someone, somewhere will soon make a change

9. We are all a part of God’s great big family

10. And the truth, you know

11. Love is all we need

12. We are the world, we are the children

13. We are the ones who make a brighter day

14. So let’s start giving

15. There’s a choice we're making

16. We're saving our own lives

17. it’s true we'll make a better day

18. Just you and me

19. Send them your heart so they'll know that
someone cares

20. And their lives will be stronger and free

21. As God has shown us by turning stones to bread

22. So we all must lend a helping hand

23. We are the world, we are the children

24. We are the ones who make a brighter day

25. So let’s start giving

26. There’s a choice we're making

27. We're saving our own lives

28. it’s true we'll make a better day

29. Just you and me

30. When you're down and out, there seems no hope at allWhen you're down and out, there seems no hope at all

31. But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall
But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall

32. Let us realize that a change can only come

33. When we stand together as one

34. We are the world, we are the children

35. We are the ones who make a brighter day

36. So let’s start giving

37. There’s a choice we're making

38. We're saving our own lives

39. it’s true we'll make a better day

40. Just you and me

41. We are the world, we are the children

42. We are the ones who make a brighter day

43. So let’s start giving

44. There’s a choice we're making

45. We're saving our own lives

46. it’s true we'll make a better day

47. Just you and me

48. We are the world, we are the children

49. We are the ones who make a brighter day

50. So let’s start giving

51. There’s a choice we're making

52. We're saving our own lives

53. it’s true we'll make a better day

54. Just you and me

62. If you were to shrink the
earth’s population to a
village of 100 people, it
would look something
like this:

63. 52 would be female,
48 would be male

64. 70 would be Non-
Christian, 30 would
be Christian

65. 6 of them would be
Americans. These 6
would have over half
of the world’s
wealth.

66. 70 would be unable
to read

67. 50 would suffer from
mal-nutrition,
1 would be near
death,
l near birth.

68. 1 would have a
college education,
1 would own a
computer.

69. Education and pay for
people 18 and older (1998):
•No high school diploma
$16,124
•High school diploma
$22,895
•Some college, no degree
$24,804
•Associate degree
$29,872
•Bachelor’s degree
$40,478
•Master’s degree

70. If you woke up this
morning with more
health than illness,
you are more blessed
than the million who
will not survive this
week.

71. If you have a non-dirt
floor in the place you
live, you belong to
the upper half of the
world’s most
prosperous people.

72. If you have a
window, a door and
more than one room,
you belong to the
upper 20 percent of
the world’s richest
people.

73. If you have never
experienced the
danger of battle, the
loneliness of
imprisonment, the
agony of torture, or
the pangs of
starvation, you are
ahead of 500 million
people in the world.

74. If you can attend
church without fear
of harassment, arrest
or torture, or death,
you are more blessed
than 3 billion people
in the world.

75. If you have food in
the refrigerator,
clothes on you back,
a roof over head and
a place to sleep you
are richer than 57%
of this world.

76. If you have money in
the bank, in your
wallet, and spare
change in a dish
some place you are
among the top 8% of
the world’s most
wealthy.

77. If your parents are
still alive and still
married you are very
rare, even here in
the United States
and Canada.

78. Regardless of where
you live, if you can
read and you have a
pair of shoes, a change
of underwear and can
choose from two or
more foods to eat, you
belong to the top 10
percent of the world’s
most wealthy.