World Hunger and Poverty

Catherine Komp recently wrote an article about homeless kids. She says:
Described as America’s “dirty little secret” by social-service providers, an estimated one million young people experience homelessness each year. Many are unaccompanied teenagers, sleeping in parks, abandoned buildings or “couch surfing” at friends’ houses. Others are younger children, often in the care of a single […]

Julianne Malveaux recently wrote an elegent article connecting national security with hunger. I include an excerpt:
The war in Iraq, President Bush has said, is “of enormous importance to American security.” There’s another kind of security our president might want to focus on - food security at home.
To be sure, he mentioned hunger and poverty in […]

Jeff Swicord recently wrote an excellent article exploring poverty in the United States. I include an excerpt:
They are a common sight in inner-city America: homeless people, living in the streets and going hungry. To most Americans, this is the face of poverty.
Population experts and those who work at trying to help the poor say […]

A recent article on Medical News Today reports that stars from the new movie ‘Blood Diamond’ speak out against world hunger. I include an excerpt:
“What is so powerful that it can make you overcome your greatest fear, turn your brother into an enemy, and leave wounds that scar long after the fighting is over? What […]

David Olive wrote an informative article about poverty in Canada. Here’s an excerpt:
If the poor weren’t so conveniently invisible, maybe we’d come to our moral senses and devise a national strategy for eliminating poverty.
But the one in six Canadians trapped in poverty are hidden in plain sight. They return from their minimum-wage work to a […]

Emergency aid has saved millions of lives, but such help provided over longer periods might destabilise markets, create dependency on imports and delay reforms needed to lift domestic output, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a report.
“Reforms to the international food aid system are necessary but they should be undertaken giving due […]

Rather than mourn a good person’s death, it’s better to celebrate the life that they had lived. On today, what would have been the seventy-eighth birthday of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I cannot bring myself to celebration. I cannot bring myself to happiness.
I am so happy that the great Martin Luther King […]

During the Holiday season people give more, but unfortunately the influx of charity and cooperation quickly ends after the holidays. This happened in Utah, where the good people of Utah helped thousands of local people in need during the holidays, but now the state’s food banks still face major food shortages, with many falling hundreds […]

The Daily Telegraph of London reported on Tuesday that U.N. peacekeepers and civilian staff were raping and abusing children as young as 12 in southern Sudan.
The newspaper, in a story posted on its Web site, said it had gathered accounts from more than 20 young victims in the town of Juba of U.N. civilian and […]