by sjs | May 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Africa, poverty is being fought village by village, using the Millennium Villages approach, which attacks poverty across a wide front. After only two years, the communities involved are already showing real results. The Millennium Villages Project grew out of...
by sjs | May 25, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“The new idea is to lift people out of poverty by giving them tools to improve their incomes. Their lives are changed not by handout aid, but through design,” says the curator of a new exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibit is...
by sjs | May 20, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
How to deal with the fact that 80% of sub-Saharan Africa’s food is grown by women, but women have little access to credit or owership rights to land? One answer: The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative. The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative is an effort to...
by sjs | May 17, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Every day, Catholic Charities agencies see the faces of the poor across America, and we know firsthand how race and poverty are interconnected,†say Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA. In 2006, the poverty rate for African Americans was 24.3%...
by sjs | May 14, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“What we do for each other says something about who we are,” said John Edwards during a gathering to kick off Half in Ten, a new initiative that aims to reduce poverty in the United Stats by 50% within 10 years. Half in Ten is a joint project of the Center...
