Poverty | -The New Face of Poverty-

This morning while getting my daily dose of Knowledge I came across this article with alarming statistics: 1 in 5 Children In U.S. Lives In Poverty, Hard-Hit By Recession: Study. According to IBTIMES: A national study on child well-being was published on Wednesday, finding that 14.7 million children were poor in 2009 across the United [...]

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The Rural Challenge (via The Official Blog of the UNA-GB)

Another week has just begun and today we have our weekly blog post from our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series. This week learn about rural development in today’s world, including the benefits and challenges it introduces to areas around the world in rural areas with the need for development for a brighter [...]

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A Tale of Two Sisters

These two sisters walk 3.5 miles to school each day from a home that looks like this: to a school that looks like this: because their only chance not to end up like this: is to get a sponsored education in a classroom like this: St Marks Grammar School is providing a free education to [...]

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July 26th UN Briefing on the Emergency in the Horn of Africa.

“Famine is not a word we use lightly” said Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, at the Rome meeting called to discuss the emergency in Eastern Africa which is in the grip of the worst drought in 6 decades. The rains did not come; the crops failed; the next rains – if [...]

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Somalis Facing Worst Famine in the World in 20 Years!

Los Angeles Times: "NAIROBI, Kenya— Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world's worst famine in a generation, the U.N. said Wednesday, a crisis so severe that the United States is loosening rules meant to p … Read More via Practikel

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Outcasts: Tens Of Thousands Of Formerly Middle Class Americans Sleeping In Cars,Tent Cities Or On The Streets.

Economic despair is beginning to spread rapidly in America.  As you read this, there are millions of American families that are just barely hanging on by their fingernails.  For a growing number of Americans, it has become an all-out battle just to be able to afford to sleep under a roof and put a little [...]

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We Need To Continue Funding Public Health.

The Washtenaw County Public Health Department is one that not many people know about, but we all count on them to keep us healthy.  County government is often called "the invisible government" for that very reason. When the H1N1 epidemic came to Michigan, our public health department set up weekend clinics for many weeks with [...]

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Inside world’s biggest refugee camp.

by Nazanine Moshiri, AJE reporter I have been to refugee camps before, but nothing on the sheer scale of Dadaab. The camp was only supposed to house tens of thousands, but according to the latest UNHCR figures there are now more than 370,000 people here. An additional 10,000 or so people still unregistered – add [...]

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