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 more than […]
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 […]
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 causes […]
by Scott Hughes
I had a friend recently ask me why I called myself an atheist. She said, “you seem to have such a big heart.” Apparently, she thought that there was something oxymoronic about a benevolent atheist. (In her defense, it turned out she thought I was a Satan worshiper, not an atheist. )
As […]
For those with an interest in hunger, poverty, and the social science thereof, I’ve compiled a list of books and reading materials. You can easily buy any of these books from Amazon instantly, so I recommend you get one, two, or a few. Here’s the list:
The World’s Banker by Sebastian Mallaby
World Hunger: 12 Myths
World Development […]
Although I am not personally a religious man and prefer to look at hunger as a practical secular problem, religious people and institutions have worked diligently in the cause to end hunger.
A powerful TV documentary presented by the National Council of Churches USA (NCC), “Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts,” takes an unflinching look […]
In a recent video added to YouTube, Stephen Colbert talks to professor Jeffrey Sachs about his book “The End of Poverty“, or why eradicating poverty might be more effective in fighting terrorism than the military. (The Colbert Report, March 2, 2006)
See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdc7atFiHg
With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Jeffery Sachs is an […]
by Scott Hughes
Sure, those who want to end world hunger also happen to often want to end war. Sure, sympathetic activists sympathize with both causes - the fight against hunger and the fight for peace. However, the reason war and hunger are linked is not just that these two movements happen to be motivated by […]
I’d like to take this time to point out that there will never be peace without freedom & justice for all. Freedom and justice are prerequisites of peace. There will never be peace so long as innocent children starve, so long as hard working people are poor, and so long as people are judged, not […]
by Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed
Why Be A Volunteer? What is in it for me, to volunteer my time and energy?
Volunteering allows me to be part of a group of respected, well meaning people who serve others. In my volunteer work, I find like minded people who share my vision to be part of a happier […]