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Rated • 1 review • activism, poverty • vancouversun.com
Amazing! Vancouver Twitter people spontaneously get together to help homeless people
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Isabella is a 54 year old woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I'm a psychotherapist and writer. Intersted in a million things. Excited about helping people reach for the really good lives they are meant to have - because happiness is something that will always spill over. My web site is Counselling in Vancouver.
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The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow
Rated • 1 review • history, poverty, scotland, photography, books • gla.ac.uk
Glasgow photographer Thomas Annan's book "The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow". Created between 1868 and 1871 as part of a commission from the City of Glasgow Improvements Trust, this collection of images of the working class areas of old Glasgow helped document the impoverished living conditions of the working class at the time.
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About the Ride : Global Agents for Change
Rated • 1 review • activism, bicycling, poverty • globalafc.org
Global Agents for Change is Riding to Break the Cycle again! Each year we launch amazing youth run, long distance cycling journeys raising funds and awareness for issues of global poverty.
We build teams of 25 incredible young people (18-30) who spend their summer not only learning about issues of global development, but also themselves over the course of an epic physical and mental journey.
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MOMocrats™: Blog Action Day: Education is the Key to...
Rated • 1 review • activism, education, poverty, children • typepad.com
From the page: "I know from personal experience that the difference between an impoverished high school dropout and a university graduate with a decent middle-class income can be one good school. A good education is the best and most enduring way to break the cycle of poverty.
And when impoverished children become educated, productive adults, their whole society benefits-- from lower violent crime rates, from more competent, more efficient workers, from more qualified doctors and scientists and engineers and businesspeople.
No child in this country should have to go to a school with no books, or a school with no heat, or a school where she has to fear violence daily. But in the two decades since I attended that impoverished elementary school, many public schools, and students, across the country have continued to suffer under similar conditions. "
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Blog Action Day: Children of Incarcerated Parents & New...
Rated • 1 review • activism, crime, children, poverty • wordpress.com
From the page: "Almost 2 1/2 million children have a parent currently incarcerated. Their needs are variable but they commonly live in poverty. Children of incarcerated parents suffer all of the consequences of poverty and the loss of a parent but endure an added stigma. The children I know with a parent incarcerated highlight the following challenges: stigma from peers over the absence of their parent, lack of visits to see their parent because of transportation difficulties, a sharp decline in income following their parentâ€s incarceration, household instability resulting (usually) from the incarceration of a mother, increased care-taking responsibilities of the parent left behind (usually, the mother or a grandparent), an increased risk of ending up in the foster care system, and worry over following in their incarcerated parentâ€s footsteps."
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thesocialreformer.com || Has a problem with society....
Rated • 2 reviews • activism, architecture, poverty • thesocialreformer.com
Blog Action Day: How architects help poverty. "There are enough shipping containers around the world to build an 8 foot wall around the equator twice.
A shipping container contains the essential elements of a home: The floor, the walls, and the roof.
The shipping containers are built on an international standard, eliminating the hassle of building measurements.
Their building block/lego shape inspires the "artists" (architects) to get creative with their architecture.
Idea Made Manifest:
Urban Space Management began their first project.
It took 5 months to build Container City 1, which opened in May 2001, and provided 12 work studios. In 2003 another floor was added in less than 2 days and provided 3 additional live/work apartments. Each apartment is 300 square feet, and rents for $80-100 per month.
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The Homeless Guy: On Homelessness
Rated • 1 review • activism, mental health, poverty, homelessness • blogspot.com
From the page of a homeless blogger: "for homeless people, the amount of sadness and anger they feel is so extreme that they are unable to overcome it. The key lies in the human event of loss. Again, every person experiences loss in their life, but in surveys I have seen first hand, homeless people experience many more loss events in their lives than other people. Also, for a great many of the homeless, opportunities to learn loss coping skills are rare. And, the types of loss homeless people face are usually more severe. Divorce is very common as the straw the broke the camels back, so is the death of a loved one, especially a child. Also is the loss of a healthy childhood, due to abuse. But the loss events run the whole gambit of negative experiences.
The inability to cope with these problems ushers in all sorts of coping attempts by the soon to be homeless person. They begin taking drugs and drinking alcohol. And often, under the duress of these issuesm a person may become ill, physically and/or mentally. But these coping attempts only exacerbate the problems the person experiences, and their lives collapse. It is not long after this collapse that people begin to lose their jobs, their friends and family, and eventually their homes."
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A Changing Life: Tough women
Rated • 1 review • activism, africa, aids, poverty, children • blogspot.com
African grandmothers who take care of their grandchildren because the parents have died of AIDS. For example, "Harriet -- one of millions of Go Go's in Sub-Saharan Africa. Harriet is a grandmother in her early 70s. She is taking care of 16 children who have no parents. Only one of Harriet's own children is still alive. The rest have died."
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Bush schools in the Central African Republic | HDPT...
Rated • 1 review • activism, africa, education, poverty • hdptcar.net
In the Central African Republic, UNICEF, with funding from the European Commission, is supporting bush schools to provide education and a sense of normalcy to displaced children.
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How to Think About the Worlds Problems - WSJ.com
Rated • 4 reviews • activism, charity, humanitarianism, poverty, economy • wsj.com
"Research for the Copenhagen Consensus, in which Nobel laureate economists analyze new research about the costs and benefits of different solutions to world problems, shows that just $60 million spent on providing Vitamin A capsules and therapeutic Zinc supplements for under-2-year-olds would reach 80% of the infants in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with annual economic benefits (from lower mortality and improved health) of more than $1 billion. That means doing $17 worth of good for each dollar spent. Spending $1 billion on tuberculosis would avert an astonishing one million deaths, with annual benefits adding up to $30 billion. This gives $30 back on the dollar.
Heart disease represents more than a quarter of the death toll in poor countries. Developed nations treat acute heart attacks with inexpensive drugs. Spending $200 million getting these cheap drugs to poor countries would avert 300,000 deaths in a year.
A dollar spent on heart disease in a developing nation will achieve $25 worth of good. Contrast that to Operation Enduring Freedom, which Copenhagen Consensus research found in the two years after 2001 returned 9 cents for each dollar spent. Or with the 90 cents Copenhagen Consensus research shows is returned for every $1 spent on carbon mitigation policies."
