by Beth | Jul 3, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A group 80 of retirees in Yuma has successfully raised more than $50,000 from aluminum can recycling, and the Rodriguez family are now able to move in to their Habitat home because of them.Arizona Town Saves Cans to Build Habitat Home Date Friday, June 28 @ 04:21:01...
by Beth | Jun 21, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
SYDNEY, Australia, JUNE 20, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The Church stands alone in its efforts to highlight “the moral imperative” of addressing poverty, according to Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon. Glendon, who has been in Australia to deliver the...
by Beth | Jun 18, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
To Promote Development Is to Invest in Security, Council Says OTTAWA, JUNE 17, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Canadian bishops are urging the G-8 leaders to keep in mind the plight of the poorer nations, especially those in Africa, when they gather in Kananaskis, Alberta, on June...
by Beth | Jun 16, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vincent often reminded us to teach how to fish rather than merely handout food. The Heifer Project stands in that tradition.Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Children...
by Beth | Jun 15, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day to half the 1990 level by 2015-from 29 percent of all people in low and middle income economies to 14.5 percent. f achieved, this would reduce the number of...
by Beth | Jun 12, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Text of Papal Message to World Food Summit in Rome ROME, JUNE 10, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Here is John Paul II’s message to the World Food Summit, convoked in Rome under the aegis of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The message was read at the opening of...
