A recent report from the World Health Organization about drinking-water and sanitation says: Safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene are fundamental to health, survival, growth and development. However, these basic necessities are still a luxury for many of the world’s poor people. Over 1.1 billion of our fellow citizens do not use drinking water […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
Fighting Poverty $1 At A Time
Microfinance loans demonstrate a great way to fight poverty and hunger without government interference or state socialist ideas. The limited amounts of these effective loans proves that the problem lay in the lack of opportunity available to the poor and hungry. Additionally, the fact that these are loans and not monetary gifts, but rather loans […]
Charlotte Crop Walk
Charlotte, North Carolina has been home to the nation’s largest Crop Walk for more than 20 years. This year’s walk will be Oct. 15. The Charlotte Crop Walk raises money to help Loaves & Fishes, Crisis Assistance Ministry and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina fight hunger in our area while supporting Church World […]
Gates Awards 15 Million to Grameen
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 […]
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 […]
Eurocentrism in U.S. History
I recently received a news story from my friend, D.J Pine, about a push by minority communities for more complete and inclusive American History. Here’s a short excerpt: American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed […]