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 fact brought […]
SaveChildrenNow.org is a website that fights huger by organizing people, not by soliciting donations. Here’s their video:
SaveChildrenNow.org
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, I’d […]
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 all […]
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 […]
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 pictures […]
by Jennifer Shukla
Several years ago, I was living in New York City for a summer as part of a college internship. I had a roommate there, but we kept very different schedules so I almost never saw her. Every morning on my way to work, I would pass a homeless woman who slept […]
The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness.
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
I recently received a news story from my friend, D.J Pine, about a push by minority communities for more complete and inclusive American History.
Here’s a short excerpt:
American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black […]
I’ve recently added some pages to millionsofmouths.com.
First, I’ve added a page about my hero Diogenes The Cynic, the philosopher who chose to live in poverty. You can find this at http://millionsofmouths.com/diogenes.html
Secondly, I’ve just added a message board about hunger and poverty to the website. This message board is new, so obviously discussion is slow to […]