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Go To Poverty - Low Income Resources Lists Prevention of Childhood Diseases Globally (World Health Organization) Explains that over half of deaths of children globally is from just four conditions, pneumonia, diarrheal diseases, malaria and measles. These conditions can all be treated for 41 cents per child, including vaccines, injection equipment, vitamins, salts, and more. Provides financial support globally to fight health problems. (Diarrhea is spelled diarrhoea in the United Kingdom.) 1-01 Multimedia Debunking Third-World Myths (PBS.org) "You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called 'developing world' using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful." 07-07 News -01-18-05 U.N.: World Can End Poverty by 2025 (MSNBC News) "Global poverty can be cut in half by 2015 and eliminated by 2025 if the world’s richest countries including the United States, Japan and Germany more than double aid to the poorest countries, hundreds of development experts concluded in a report Monday." "At stake is life or death for tens of millions of impoverished people, it said." 1-05 -01-25-05 Institute: Terrorism a Symptom from Poverty, Disease, and Pollution (NationalGeographic.com) " 'Acts of terrorism like the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. are a worst-case symptom of global insecurity brought about by the festering interplay among poverty, infectious disease, and environmental degradation—the true "axis of evil,' according to the Worldwatch Institute in its State of the World 2005 report." "Global poverty can be cut in half by 2015 and eliminated by 2025 if the world’s richest countries including the United States, Japan and Germany more than double aid to the poorest countries, hundreds of development experts concluded in a report Monday." "Instead of tackling the social and environmental issues embraced by the MDGs and the WSSD targets, governments' global funding priority in recent years has been the world's militaries, which receive the equivalent of nearly a trillion U.S. dollars annually, according to the Worldwatch report." "By contrast, the MDGs could be achieved with additional funding of 50 billion dollars each year—money currently available in 'outdated, ineffective, or otherwise wasteful' military programs, according to the report." " 'Do we understand that by doing things like reducing poverty, improving water sufficiency, making sure arable land is not so totally exhausted that food security becomes a huge issue, we also address the stability and security of the world's nations?" Renner said. 'In Washington [D.C.], that's a very hard sell.' " 1-05 -05-14-07 Design for the Other 90 Percent of Us (Business Week) Describes innovations that help the 90 percent of the people of the world in developing countries. 05-07 -05-23-06 Bono and Others Fighting for Africa (MSNBC News) "Red is a sort of charitable response to the AIDS emergency through red products — red phones — Motorola putting out a red phone, American Express putting out a red card and, GAP doing T-shirts and Armani's involved. And the idea is that some of profits — in fact, a lot of profits made by those items — will go to global fund to fight AIDS." "Now, ONE is a different thing. If RED is a charity, ONE is about justice. ONE is the marching boots inside of what we do. ONE is people in the Midwest like Shane Moore, who's an evangelical soccer mom who is having a watch party for your program tonight — she's unbelievable. Also Green Day, Alicia Keyes. ONE is a big movement of people. It's like the civil rights movement was like in the ’60s, I suppose or the anti-apartheid movement in the ’70s and ’80s — people getting organized. Bill Gates, Tom Brady, NASCAR." 05-06 -10-14-06 Peace Prize for Helping the Poor (Time Magazine) "Bangladeshi economist Muhammud Yunus was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize not for giving to the poor, but for helping them to help themselves" 10-06 -12-01-05 Malawi Poverty and Disease: Half Face Starvation (CNN News) "This is one of the world's 10 poorest countries; life expectancy is a mere 37 years; two-thirds of the population live on less than a dollar a day; one in six adults is HIV positive, and nearly half the population of 12 million faces starvation in coming months if help doesn't arrive soon." "That's 5 million people, which is half the population of London or New York City." "Malawi is in deep trouble after a fourth straight season of failed rains, which made farmlands and fields bone dry. November was supposed to usher in the rainy season -- but the skies were a clear blue and no clouds are in sight." "The majority of Malawians are subsistence farmers - and they are crying out for help." 12-05 -12-18-05 Heroes Against Poverty and Disease (MSNBC News) "Managing Editor James Kelly said the three had been chosen as the people most effective at finding ways to eradicate such calamities as malaria in Africa, HIV and AIDS and the grinding poverty that kills 8 million people a year." 12-05 07-17-03 Attention Diverted From Humanitarian Crises (CBS News) "Too many humanitarian crises are forgotten as world attention focuses on headline-grabbing emergencies in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots, the Red Cross said Thursday." 7-03 Papers Child Poverty - "Legal" Slavery and Sweatshops (ACTRAV) "To emphasize its insistence on accurate country-of -origin labeling and its particular abhorrence of the use of prison labor and illegal child labor, JCPenney requires that its foreign suppliers and its U.S. suppliers of imported merchandise, for each shipment of foreign-produced merchandise, obtain a manufacturer's certificate that the merchandise was manufactured at a specified factory, identified by name, location and country, and the neither convict labor, forced labor or indentured labor, nor illegal child labor, was employed in the manu facture of the merchandise." 12-04 Child Poverty - "Legal" Slavery and Sweatshops (RugMark.org) "RUGMARK is a global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The RUGMARK label is your best assurance that no illegal child labor was employed in the manufacture of a carpet or rug." 12-04 Child Poverty - "Legal" Slavery and Sweatshops (StolenChildhoods.org) "Feel personal responsibility for child laborers as you do your own children. Voice this concept to friends, family, religions congregations. etc." "Raise awareness of the problem of child labor and need to do something now to get all children educated." "Support Labor Union initiatives to get children out of the workplace and give adults a living wage." 12-04 Christmas Hero (ABC News) "Every December for the past 15 years, Alexa Donaphin has made her way to New York City's main post office to participate in Operation Santa Claus. More than 400,000 Santa letters get re-routed there from the North Pole. The post office makes it possible for anyone to select letters from underprivileged children and then fulfill their Christmas wishes." 7-05 Clinton's Global Summit (Wire Service) "...the Clinton Global Initiative will provide discussion and debate on four of our most pressing global challenges:" "* The Escape from Poverty: Forging a New Deal Between the Developed and Developing World" "* Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation" "* Climate Change: Business Opportunity, Business Challenge" "* Governance, Enterprise and Investment" 9-05 Clinton's Global Summit Report, 52 Ways You Can Make a Difference (ClintonGlobalInitiative.org) Suggests 52 ways to improve the world. 01-07 Clinton's Global Summit Report, February 2006 (ClintonGlobalInitiative.org) "The Clinton Global Initiative is a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges." 02-06 Fighting Against Poverty and for Reproductive Health and Rights (UNFPA.org - United Nations Population Fund) Describes programs to fight poverty, including programs to help women have better reproductive health and more reproductive rights. 12-02 How Young Is too Young to Be a Fighter? (ABC News) "As young girls and boys wildly kick and punch each other in rural rings across Thailand, spectators (farmers, trainers, families, friends) place their bets. Each child stands to change his or her family's fortune with a winning blow." 10-07 Kniting Project (PeaceFleece.com) Describes a project to help refugees of Kosovo to find meaning and some income by providing them with the tools for kniting. 1-01 Obstetric Fistula - Prevention and Treatment (UNFPA.org - United Nations Population Fund) Obstetric fistula is a wound caused by protracted labour. Its victims are mostly very young and very poor - girls or women without access to emergency obstetric care. 12-02 Sustainable Planet (Awesome Library - Adams) Describes the most important few things that can be done to reduce pollution, reduce global warming, save our forests, reduce poverty, provide energy to the poor, and improve the availability of drinkable water for the future. 11-00 Sustainable Water Pumps (PumpAid.org) "Pump Aid tackles poverty by working with local communities to establish sustainable supplies of clean water for improved health and increased agricultural production." "No other organisation can secure a sustainable supply of clean water for a school in Africa at a cost of just £250. This is because money given to Pump Aid goes directly to where it is needed." 09-07 Projects Bicycles for Developing Countries (Pedals for Progress) Pedals for Progress rescues bicycles destined for landfills and sends them to developing countries. 12-02 PlayPumps and the New Philanthropy (Time.com) "The merry-go-round is not just a simple piece of playground equipment. It's a PlayPump water system. Lack of access to clean water is one of Africa's biggest health challenges. Through technology developed by an African entrepreneur, the children are pumping clean water for their village when they turn the merry-go-round." 09-06

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