Today, David Cronin reported that Roman school-children can help alleviate poverty by eating chocolate among other foods: When schoolchildren in Rome tuck into a banana or a chocolate bar, they are making a real difference to families in poor countries. Italy is leading the way in a European drive to convince public authorities that they […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Serving & Learning about Poverty
Gladys Terichow recently reported about a program in Ontario, Canada. The program combines helping unfortunate people with educating the fortunate.. I include an excerpt: TOOLS coordinator, Allan Reesor-McDowell, said the program is designed to offer challenging and faith-enriching experiences that change participants’ lives. It combines opportunities for service with learning, group discussions and personal reflections […]
Poverty, Violence, and Health
In a recent article from Watching The Watchers, Lee Russ concludes the following: Poverty and violence are not, it seems, merely some abstract philosophical states that matter only in the context of some partisan discussion of economic and social policy (nor are poverty and violence unrelated to each other). There is considerable evidence indicating that […]
Quality Schools Defeat Achievement Gap
A recent editorial on jconline.com describes how some schools have overcome the achievement gap. I include an excerpt: Chenoweth cites schools from coast to coast that have extricated themselves from what she calls the demography myth — the one that implies low-income means low-achieving. High schools in Worcester, Mass., Elmont, N.Y., and elsewhere where poverty […]
Jeske & Poor Nicaraguan Villagers
In a recent commentary, Christine Jeske explains how she and her husband learned from poor villagers Nicaragua. I include an excerpt: One special influence to us was a man who quit grad school to move to El Salvador, where he lived through a civil war. He challenged us, “Don’t go somewhere thinking you have the […]
King’s Dream for an End to Poverty Goes Unfulfilled
Lethia Swett Mann recently wrote an article describing her hope that one day we will fulfill King’s dream: Four days before his death, on March 31, 1968, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Dr. Martin Luther King said, “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques […]