Grameen Foundation recently announced it has received a $1.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support its work worldwide. The three-year grant will support Grameen Foundation’s strategic plan to use microfinance loans to ensure that at least 2.5 million poor families permanently escape poverty within five years Grameen Foundation is a […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Hunger and Poverty Video: School Project
A YouTube user uploaded the following school project to show the important reality of hunger and poverty:
Welfare Won’t Work
by Scott Hughes Do you remember 9/11? I cried. 2,819 people died in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers [1]. 16,000 children die every day from hunger [2]. That’s about one child every 5 seconds. No doubt we have to end hunger, especially childhood hunger. This terrible horror plagues the whole world, not just […]
Microenterprises
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 […]
SaveChildrenNow.org
SaveChildrenNow.org is a website that fights huger by organizing people, not by soliciting donations. Here’s their video: SaveChildrenNow.org
Fight Non-Violent People or Feed Hungry Children?
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, […]