by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Spend more on making indoor sprays available. That’s advice at the World Health Organization’s malaria evaluation meeting today in Burkina Faso. Sprays that include DDT are especially effective because they last longer on walls and are effective against...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Evangelization, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Upgrading the skills of 22,000 nurses would take 220 years at Kenya’s traditional training college. But a forward-looking e-learning program has already admitted 2000 students to the same training. Compared to the 2.5 year traditional program, the new method...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
With as little as $100, it is possible to invest in microfinance, the topic of last week’s famvin.org feature on systemic change. Today eBay, the online auction site, launched MicroPlace and its slogan: “Invest wisely. End poverty.” See BBC coverage...
by annaread | Oct 23, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
He’s hungry. That’s the explanation of an Indian poacher who has been in and out of jail several times. Read the story.
by annaread | Oct 23, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
There are a lot of reasons to keep mattresses out of landfills, says the executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County in Eugene, Oregon. Terry McDonald described the DR3 — divert, reduce, reuse, recycle — program and the many...
by annaread | Oct 21, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
A CARE program that offers small loans to poor, indigenous women in Guatemala looks to change the lives not only of borrowers but also of the next generation. Terms include the requirement that daughters be allowed to stay in school at least through the sixth grade....
