by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In an eerie echo of the way Charles  Dickens “The Tale of Two Cities” is playing out across the globe today, the Australian CM site draws attention to a piece entitled “Struggle St vs Easy St – ‘no-one knows’ how to fix...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 4, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A new documentary film, “Blood in the Mobile,” powerfully addresses both the limits of the imagination and our sense of connection to atrocities committed on the other side of the world. STORY HIGHLIGHTS In Congo, militia groups and army factions control...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 29, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Homelessness from A-Z Younger homeless people from the CONNECTION’S  Digital Group TOUCHBASE have developed an inspiring A_Z series to warn other people about the harsh realities of being homeless.  They have created  “A-Z” to help educate and prevent...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 2, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A new website and mobile app looks at your purchases and determines the amount of forced labor that’s gone into everything you own. The number may surprise you. It’s not easy to be a socially responsible consumer. Even if you buy mostly local products and...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 24, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Most of the world’s newspapers are running features on how to survive in a bad economy. But I have seen no articles on “How to survive on less than $2 a day”. Yet over 2.7 billion people in the world live on $2 or less a day. How do they do it? How...
