by Beth | Sep 18, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Oxfam launches a global campaign to tackle the coffee crisis and force the corporate giants who dominate the $60-billion industry to pay farmers a decent price.Poverty and misery for coffee growers, massive profits for the big coffee companies. Don’t swallow it....
by Beth | Sep 9, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vincent exemplified the importance of advocacy and speaking to power. He was truly a “voice for the poor”. Constantly, even if quietly,he would lobby the powerful on behalf of the weak. While most would not see him as a “systems thinker”, the...
by Beth | Aug 6, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Business School professor Ronald Paul Hill examines six poverty subpopulations and their strategies for coping with consumer restriction in their daily lives. He also develops some strategies for poverty eradication in the 21st century. From the conclusion…...
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 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...
