Faith in Action - Keeping Poverty on the Global Agenda

A good read...

Extract taken from
Keeping Poverty on the Global Agenda

FAITH IN ACTION
By Katherine Marshall

And there are topics where we know that action can enhance welfare: get girls into school, oppose the marriage of young children; speak with outrage against violence in the home and in institutions; fight passionately against stigma, especially for people living with HIV/AIDS, and stop trafficking in people.

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Over 640 million people in Asia and the Pacific—or nearly a fifth of the population in the region’s developing countries—live on less than $1 a day.

Writer attributes financial crisis stalls region’s poverty reduction targets.

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Hunger, poverty keep 1.8m Kenyan children out of school

And out of the 862 million illiterate adults in the world, 7.8 million are from Kenya....

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Did you know...that 7 million Ukrainians were starved to Death

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in the space of one year?

Mankind has never seen a more efficient extermination program than the one in Ukraine during the winter of 1932 and 1933.

Four million Kenyans face starvation

A devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya...

Excerpts from this heart-tugging story by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN LOKORI

THE sun feels closer in Kenya, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for food, heatwaves ripple up from the desert surface, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled in front of him.

His green pasture has turned to dust, his once mighty herd of goats, sheep and camels have died of thirst, his three-year-old son recently died of hunger, and he does not look to be far from death himself.

A devastating drought is sweeping across Kenya, stirring up tension in the slums where the water taps have run dry, and spawning ethnic conflict in the hinterland as communities fight over the last remaining pieces of fertile grazing land.

and JEFFREY ends his story with

Another El Nino cycle is forecast, which after years of drought and earth baked to a crust could bring the opposite problem...... FLOODS.

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More than 3.8 million Kenyans facing starvation

...over the next six months.

Extract from Daily Nation

The World Food Programme has launched an appeal for Sh17.5 billion to enable it provide emergency assistance to more than 3.8 million Kenyans facing starvation over the next six months.

Read the article dated 25 August 2009 here.

Solutions: Agriculture - Agropolitan

Agropolitan Definition

agro- field; soil; agriculture
-politan: suffix from Greek polis meaning "city"

Thus, agropolitans are cities based on agriculture.

Agropolitan way to eradicate hardcore poverty

Hardcore poverty will be eradicated by the end of next year with the implementation of agropolitan projects nationwide.

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Solutions: Faith...Argentine faithful pray for jobs as poverty soars

Here's another example of how faith is seen as a solution for poverty.

...thousands lined up to offer prayers Friday to Saint Cayetano, the patron of jobs and unemployed people.

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Are 3,000 Penans in the remote settlements in upper Belaga, Malaysia facing starvation?

Read the news report here.

Who are the Penans? Read the Wiki entry here.

Quote from The Philanthropist (TV Series)

The Philanthropist is a highly intelligent, thought-provoking and, believe it or not, caring TV Series.

From the Episode: Kashmir

"Peace brings stability. With stability comes jobs. With jobs come disposable income. With that disposable income, consumers all over the world may just be able to buy American* goods.

So it is not just PEACE in itself... but the DIVIDENDS that PEACE delivers."


* - change "American" to "MORE", and the quote may sound more appealing to people other than Americans.

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