by sjs | Apr 12, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A bank in the Midwest sponsors a hunger awareness week to bring attention to hunger and poverty. Teens in Calgary initiate a 30-hour fast to raise awareness of what it is like to be hungry. Read the articles here and here as a springboard to considering other...
by sjs | Apr 4, 2008 | Justice and Peace
Today, on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, many recall King’s campaign against poverty. Read one account of his vision here. See King’s last speech before his death here.
by sjs | Mar 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Imagine getting a bee sting; then imagine getting six more. You are now in a position to think about what it means to be poor, according to Charles Karelis, a former president of Colgate University. Traditional economic assumptions miss the point of why some poor...
by sjs | Mar 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Delegates representing cities from 100 countries are taking part in Athens this week in a global forum of the World Alliance of Cities against Poverty. Among the outcomes expected from the gathering is “the adoption of time-bound and quantified local ‘road...
by sjs | Mar 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Mission of Mercy, a non-profit, faith-based organization, works out of RVs converted into mobile medical clinics to provides free care to the working poor in South Texas. “[W]e’re working together to show these people that somebody loves them, somebody...
