by annaread | Apr 29, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Three groups are being affected strongly by the current economic downturn in the US, according to an emergency services director for the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Oregon, USA: the unemployed, aged 50-61 who are too young for Social Security; those with...
by annaread | Apr 28, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“The real resolution of hunger and the issue of people facing hunger is not giving them a food box, but dealing with the underlying issues of why they need that in the first place,” says the executive director of a food share program in Oregon, USA. Read...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a novel appeal Soles4Souls.org encourages congregations to leave their shoes in church on Naational Baarefoot Sunday June 1 so that they may be used for 300 million children around the world who live barefoot.
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A brutal convergence of events has hit an unprepared global market, and grain prices are sky high. The world’s poor suffer most. Hunger related riots have occurred in 17 countries. Food is becoming speculation tool replacing mortgages. Excerpts fro an...
by sjs | Apr 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MicroPlace, a microfinance investment vehicle about which we’ve posted before, has added investment opportunities in 9 more countries. “To date, investments made through MicroPlace have generated 20,000 loans to the world’s working poor.” Read...
by sjs | Apr 24, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A “State of the Planet” summit hosted by Columbia University brought together economists, world leaders and scientists to explore the special risk climate change poses to poor countries. “[Left unchecked, global warming could spur conflict and puts...
