Hindu.com reports on the new UN anthem for the fight against poverty: Poverty has no caste or gender, but it now has a voice in the form of music virtuoso A R Rahman, whose English single “Pray For Me Brother” will be the UN’s anthem for its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) campaign. The MDGs comprise […]
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Hunger Drives Students to Suicide
Malungelo Booi reports that students in South African schools commit suicide due to hunger: HUNGER and desperation are driving pupils at a school near Mthatha to commit suicide, according to the principal. More than a quarter of the pupils at Upper Corana High School, in Misty Mount near Mthatha, may be HIV/Aids orphans, and the […]
18,000 Children Die Daily From Hunger
The AP reports that the UN says 18,000 children die daily from hunger: It is “a terrible indictment of the world in 2007” that 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition, and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, the head of the UN food agency said on […]
Teens Fast to Fight Hunger
Approximately 500,000 teens across the country intend to participate in the 2007 World Vision 30-Hour Famine. For 30 hours, starting at noon Feb. 23, the participants plan to go without food, consuming only liquids, learn about world hunger and poverty and perform service projects in their communities. The money raised by each participant contributes to […]
Water Project Helps Alleviate World’s Poverty
Jennifer Harris recently wrote an article about awWater project helps that alleviate world’s poverty More than 270 Christian organizations in the Micah Network are working together to ensure the United Nations keeps the Millennium Development Goals designed to cut global poverty in half by 2015. First Baptist Church of Columbia is one such group, striving […]
Taxes Fund War Instead of Social Services
Catholic Online reports on criticism of the contrast between President Bushes cuts to social spending and his increases in military spending: The proposed $2.9 billion U.S. government budget proposed by the Bush Administration is a moral document that misses the mark in reducing poverty, with draconic cuts that will hurt America’s poor families, said the […]