By Jean-Valery Vital Herne, Micah Challenge Coordinator, Haiti

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For many months a question has been going round my brain.   Often I caught myself thinking it, again and again.  It pursued me like an obsession. Like an old stuck record, I asked myself over and over: what can be done in a society where justice is inexistent? Or rather, what is one’s recourse in a context where justice is represented by this adulated blindfolded woman but respected by none?

I wasn't sure that I was going to turn up for the evening worship session at the World Prayer Assembly.  It was a long day...

Is the goal to halve extreme poverty in a generation aspirational or could we really expect to make it reality? Our answer makes a difference. Aspiration means we expect to “fail” but expectation means we can and should see 700 million children, women and men freed from grinding need.