The below is a bulletin I recieved on MySpace from A Crazy Idea: A Crazy Idea and Youth Against Poverty have teamed up to form a coalition to end poverty in America, and they need your help! The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That’s […]
Daily Archives: August 19, 2006
$100 Laptop
This fall more than 500 children in Thailand will be part of a pilot program for “quality testing and debugging” of the $100 laptop. The One Laptop Per Child program, which is supplying the computers, is the brainchild of tech guru Nicholas Negroponte, who has spent the last several years developing and refining the technology. […]
Causes of Hunger related to Poverty
In a world of plenty, huge numbers of people go hungry. Hunger is more than just the result of food production and meeting demands. The causes of hunger are related to the causes of poverty. One of the major causes of hunger is poverty itself. There are other related causes (also often related to the […]