by Beth | Jan 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
NEW YORK, JAN. 22, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Last Monday an advisory group handed in a report to U.N. officials on how to help developing nations overcome poverty. The hefty, 3,000-page document is the work of the U.N. Millennium Project, which was commissioned to develop a...
by Beth | Jan 24, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Daughters of Charity in Great Britain use web site to fund a mobile clinic in KenyaOur Lenten Appeal for Kenya this year is to raise £20.000.00 to purchase a vehicle to use as a mobile clinic. We will provide the vehicle and a Dutch organisation will equip it. A...
by Beth | Jan 14, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
 Daughters of Charity from the Evansville and St. Louis Provinces of the U.S.A. have learned how collaboration with Heifer International give self-sustaining gifts.  What a difference a goat, or a cow, pig, rabbit, chicken, duck, llama, water buffalo makes,...
by Beth | Jan 13, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) – Malaria could kill up to 100,000 people in coming months across Indian Ocean communities devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami if authorities do not quickly move to kill mosquitoes, a health expert warned Thursday.Today: January 13, 2005...
by Beth | Dec 19, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Reports such as the study Jeffrey Sachs is doing for the United Nations, which is slated to come out in January, as well as several international summits are expected to put a bright spotlight on the fight against poverty during the next year, The Economist writes....
by Beth | Dec 16, 2004 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Students and others at St. John’s University will have an oportunity to start Lent with an exeperience of an aspect of homeless by sleeping out in tents on the Great Lawn on the campus on Ash Wednesday night.Ash Wednesday 2/9 through 2/11 people will be sleeping...
