by Isabelle A. Harman http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45515.asp Excerpt: The disproportionately high levels of poverty found in many developing countries became the catalyst needed to create a formal process to help citizens of these states develop a means to earn an income. Traditional lending institutions have not been readily accessible to many of these people (particularly women). This […]
Monthly Archives: August 2006
SaveChildrenNow.org
SaveChildrenNow.org is a website that fights huger by organizing people, not by soliciting donations. Here’s their video: SaveChildrenNow.org
Fight Non-Violent People or Feed Hungry Children?
I don’t mean to mini-rant here, but… Which would you do: fight non-violent people or feed hungy children? I’m an anarchist, so I advocate small government (and theoretically the eventual elimination of government all-together). Accordingly, I believe the solution to social problems such as hunger need to come from private means, not governmental ones. So, […]
YouTube Videos: Children and Starvation
I watched two great, but sad, hunger-related videos on YouTube today. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That must be true, because these videos are worth a million. They both use a nice mix of slideshow photography and music to move the audience. This first video, entitled “Children”, displays pictures of children […]
Ending Hunger Now – The Book
A friend of mine recently directed me to the website for Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge To Persons Of Faith, and recommended the book to me. In the book, George McGovern, Bob Dole, and Donald E. Messer share their conviction that ending hunger is a religious imperative and a human priority. Writing for congregations and […]
The Method To End Hunger
by Scott Hughes Hunger’s a beast of a problem. 15 million children die from it every year. Even in the United States, 14 million children are food insecure. The facts keep going like that. Off the top of my head, I could probably spit out enough facts about hunger to make you cry. I’ve got […]