by John Freund, CM | Aug 12, 2011 | Disasters and Responses, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Parents are being forced to choose which of their children receive water and meager rations of food.” A Choice No Parent Should Have to Make (courtesy of Heifer International.) Parents fleeing the devastating famine on foot — sometimes with as many as...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 31, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today introduced an Internet-based mapping tool that pinpoints the location of “food deserts” around the country and provides data on population characteristics of census tracts where residents have limited access to...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 27, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The LA TImes reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa— Famine is a very technical term — unless you’re one of those walking for weeks in a last-ditch hope to save your family. For months, people have been trudging out of the desert, leaving their dead children...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2011 | Vincentian Family
“Uncle” Pete Zonsius is still carrying out the charitable work he’s done for 40 years–despite the fact he’s 89 years old, got out of the hospital two weeks ago for respiratory trouble, and is carrying around an oxygen tank. That won’t stop him from soliciting...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Millenium Development Goals poverty targets look achievable, but hunger remainsWhile the world is on track to end extreme poverty by 2015 in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals, progress is lagging on meeting the parallel goal of eradicating hunger. The...