by John Freund, CM | Aug 13, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Australia’s housing and homelessness services are stretched and unable to meet growing demand for services, but are closely followed by community legal services which are facing chronic underfunding, longer waiting lists, and turning away greater numbers of...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 11, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
(Romereports.com) Mel Young and Harald Schmied decided in 2003 to improve the living conditions of homeless people by a creating a World Cup of soccer they could all take part in. It has become a foundation that helps the most disadvantaged through sports. Every year...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 6, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In the past several years, more and more people have been forced to use desperate means of survival, such as begging, living in slums or going through rubbish bins looking for food or items they can recycle or sell. But now, people who resort to these survival tactics...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 1, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Benedict XVI offers six ideas aimed at fixing the financial system and rebuilding a new one that would be more humane and fair to all people. (Romereports.com) PRINCIPLE OF GRATUITOUSNESS The first is the ‘Principles of Gratuitousness’. It means that...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 31, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
New proposals in Great Britan seek to measure ‘faults’ of poor, rather than poverty The Methodist Church, Baptist Union of Great Britain and United Reformed Church are accusing the Government of continuing a trend of blaming the poor as new proposals to...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 29, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Perhaps not quite in the category of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”, of 6.8 billion people on the planet. 4.0 billion of them own a mobile phone, but only 3.5 billion of them own a toothbrush. Here are 24 other facts that might surprise you…...
