Two villages in Kenya, a third in Tanzania and a fourth in Uganda will share a $100 million aid investment. Billionaire financier George Soros announced last week that he is contributing $50 million to the Millennium Villages Project, a non-governmental initiative intended to show that closely focused development projects can alleviate severe poverty within a […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
Pope Attacks Islam rather than Poverty
Last week, Pope Benedict insulted Muslims and Islam itself when he delivered a major address at the University of Regensburg, Germany, in which he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor who regarded some of the prophet Muhammad’s teachings as “evil and inhuman.” Although the Pope apologized earlier today, many people doubt the apology fully displayed […]
Taliban Takes Advantage of Poverty
It’s the same old story – the poor neglected wayward kid gets taken in by a manipulative thug; except this time it’s on a much larger scale. The Taliban is taking advantage of the poverty and suffering caused by Western foreign policy and allowed by the neglect of the world. The Taliban have regained control […]
Charities Join to Fight African Hunger
Almost everyday I receive a report about Bill Gates generosity and the philanthropist actions of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates generosity demonstrates what happens when a common person works hard and intelligently to gain wealth, status, and power, rather than just inherit it. Strong intelligent people like Bill Gates threaten the non-meritocratic […]
United Way Sets $5.4 Million Goal
The United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County began its yearly fundraising campaign last Thursday. It set a $5.4 million goal. United Way funds thirty-nine agencies that in turn provide sixty-five programs in the areas of hunger and homelessness, child outreach, and domestic violence. Read the full Journal Star story.
Calls For Renewed Effort To Fight Hunger
UN food agency calls for renewed effort to fight hunger: If the world hopes to achieve a set of internationally agreed development targets by 2015, it must begin by tackling hunger and extreme poverty, especially in sub-Saharan Africa the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf told the committee, […]