by John Freund, CM | Mar 2, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The Mirror Art Group (MAG) helps hill tribes – relocated from the mountaintops to the foothills of northern Thailand – fight poverty, unemployment, lack of education, malnutrition, drug abuse, trafficking of women and children, loss of land rights, withholding of...
by annaread | Feb 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
A clinic in Salt Lake City is opening an after hours satellite at a Society of Saint Vincent de Paul overflow shelter. It’ll offer flu shots, blood pressure checks, and other care for chronic illnesses of the homeless. The result expected is a 30% reduction in...
by annaread | Feb 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Microsoft and Starbucks call home the urban area of Seattle Washington USA — and so does Unitus, an organization that has sought to leverage the strengths and opportunities of microfinance around the world. Unitus provides start-up capital for microfinance...
by annaread | Feb 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
A food pantry run by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Port Huron, Michigan USA has a new location and a new way of making food available: “client choice.” Read the story.
by John Freund, CM | Feb 24, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Moving from scavenging dangerous refuse heaps . . . to recycling trash into treasures. Urban waste disposal is an enormous problem – waste often piles up faster than cities can remove it. Changemakers.net celebrates a pair of social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh who...
by sjs | Feb 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting...
