Maybe the Bible is for wimps, too. There are many reasons why this is so. Many of the least developed nations are run by crooks who steal the money and line their own pockets. And too, we have plenty of poor people of our own. They're not poor by the standards of say, Burkina Faso, but they're suffering, too.
Charity begins at home.
These matters are excruciatingly uncomfortable. World poverty is one of those great, big, scary problems that beg solutions, so we pretty much ignore the nagging sense of guilt and head for the mall. The basic issue is income inequality, and that is the fault line around which all politics dances. According to the United Nations, the 225 richest people in the world have wealth equal to the annual income of the 2.8 billion poorest people in the world. A score of 100 is as good as it gets.