10,404 posts tagged Poverty
SubscribeA Worthwhile Cause
http://perezhilton.com/ 2008-05-20-a-worthwhile-cause-61-
Sina.com Calls On Offering Psychological Aid To Students Affected By Earthquake
http://www.chinatechnews.com/ 2008/ 05/ 21/ 6769-sinacom-calls-on-offering-psych…Following their release of a proposal of making donations to help students affected by the earthquake return to school, Sina.com (SINA) and China Siyuan Foundation for Poverty Alleviation have now made another proposal, calling on special funds to be raised to offer psychological aid to those students.
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Advice for Burma Giving
http://thinkgirl.net/ ?p=3864I have been very active in the Free Burma movement for 16 years. I’ve been working on this almost full-time since the cyclone struck. It’s been a crash course for me in humanitarian relief in Burma. Here is what I’ve learned. 1. It is best to give donations to small NGOs.
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South African xenophobic attacks felt in Zimbabwe
http://www.sokwanele.com/ thisiszimbabwe/ archives/ 979South African xenophobic attacks felt in Zimbabwe May 20th, 2008 The xenophobic attacks against migrant workers in South Africa is having its inevitable knock on impact on people here in Zimbabwe too. Three people I know directly here in Zimbabwe have been affected so far and I am sure there are many more.
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Mobile phones: A post industrial platform for innovation
http://www.nitibhan.com/ perspective_20/ 2008/ 05/ mobile-phones-a.htmlA fond reblog of an old favourite today, all the way from August 16 of 2006. Why? Because now I'm beginning to see the 'big three' starting to happen on this platform - healthcare, banking/finance and education. What other sub platforms on the mobile are we beginning to see the early signals of? Something we'll be exploring further here, methinks.
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May 20 - Homily - Fr Angelo: St. Bernadine of Sienna
http://www.airmaria.com/ 2008/ 05/ 20/ may-20-homily-fr-angelo-st-bernadine-of-s…Homily #080520 ( 10min) Play - St. Bernadine was a Franciscan who sang the praises of Mary in the 15th Century and advocated a strict observance of poverty. Listen as Fr. Angelo explains how powerful a reformer this saint was for the Franciscans and for the Church.
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i wish kiva day was every day
http://aaronmonts.com/ 2008/ 05/ 20/ i-wish-kiva-day-was-every-day/Every month I get the privilege of helping someone around the world, whom I have never met, work their way out of poverty and this month I get to help Habil Orujov from Azerbaijan and a group of women from Paraguay.
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TALKING SENSE
http://goatrope.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ talking-sense.htmlSeveral years ago, I stumbled on a thought provoking book titled Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic. The author, James Gilligan, is a physician and psychiatrist who worked extensively in prisons and mental hospitals and who drew extensively on his decades of experience with violent offenders in developing his theories.
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Poverty Simulation
http://larryjamesurbandaily.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ poverty-simulation.htmlDallas Social Venture Partners invites you to join in an unusual experience here at Central Dallas Ministries on Monday, June 2, 2008 from 5:00 until 7:30 p.m. The two-hour "Poverty Simulation" will afford participants the opportunity to assume the role of a "family" facing the unique challenges associated with poverty.
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Johannesburg beset by a wave of xenophobic attacks
http://nebuchadnezzarwoollyd.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ johannesburg-beset-by-wave-…A wave of attacks on mostly Zimbabwean immigrants has left at least 22 dead in the last three days in Johannesburg, South Africa. Another 6,000 have fled to the safety of churches, police stations and community halls. Townships have become no-go areas as mobs go on a xenophobic rampage targeting foreigners without provocation.
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‘Their’ children
http://www.blogbharti.com/ joseph/ poverty/ their-children/Amruta Patil writes about an incident that she witnessed in the middle of a traffic snarl. She saw how a policeman was treating a group of street children selling magazines - policeman kicked one child in the head, went on to punch another in the stomach, throw him to the pavement and kick him.
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