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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #24: Struggling
With A Basic Need: Sustenance |
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Poverty
(from online encyclopedia) |
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Poverty Threshold (from
online encyclopedia) |
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Subsistence
Farming (from online encyclopedia) |
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Sustenance (from
online encyclopedia) |
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Homelessness
(from online encyclopedia) |
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The FAO's Special Programme on Food
Security (UN agency seeks to cut world hunger in half) |
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Working in the Shadows
by Gabriel Thompson (read excerpts from this 2010 book at book's
website) |
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"Unclean
Water Claims More Lives Than War" (March 22, 2010 story from
Environment News Service) |
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A
Question of Sustenance, by Gary Stix (September 2007 Scientific
American article) |
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A Dollar A
Day (devoted to "examining poverty in developing
nations" and "raising awareness of the plight of the poor") |
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Human Development Reports (website of
this UN program) |
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UNICEF ("for
every child: health, education, equality, protection") |
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Survival
International (devoted to helping tribal people defend their lives,
protect their lands, etc) |
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Africa--The Global Face of
Poverty, by Moraa Gitaa (2007 article posted on G21 "The World's
Magazine") |
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"Virtual Visit to the
Kpawa Community of Togo" (share their struggles, dreams, daily
routines--from Plan USA) |
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My Own Four Walls (a video about kids
and homelessness, from the non-profit Hear Us) |
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Meeting the
Health Needs of the Very Poor |
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Poverty
Around The World |
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Poverty:
Challenging the Myths |
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Poverty
in Third World Countries (photos) |
| Townsend
Centre for International Poverty Research (British university's
project) |
| Poverty
in South Asia, by Imtiaz Alam (Feb 2007 article posted on the One
World South Asia website) |
| "Rescuing
the Bottom Billion Through the Control of Tropical Diseases" by Peter
J. Hotez (2009 paper) |
| "Poor
Nutrition Stunting Growth" (Nov 2009 BBC report on UNICEF study) |
| "A
Village Woman's Legacy," by Jimmy Carter (article by former
president in Time March 31 2008) |
| "Blueprint
Brigade," by Bryan Walsh (article about Engineers Without Borders
in Time December 10 2007) |
| Children
and Poverty (homepage of campaign by CARE, "a
leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty") |
| Pictures
of Third World Poverty, Hunger, Starvation |
| "Human
Rights: More Than One Hundred Million Homeless Worldwide", by
Gustavo Capdevila (news report) |
| Living on $1 a Day, article
by Xanthe Scharff |
| Personal
Experiences of Homelessness |
| Nutrition
and the Alleviation of Absolute Poverty in Communities, by Rainer Gross |
| 10
Things You Need to Know About Sanitation (about sanitation problems
worldwide, from UN Water) |
| Poverty,
Work, and Freedom by S. Rizvi, and D. Levine (book review) |
| National
Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty |
| Project
Health (dedicated to "breaking the link between poverty and poor
health") |
| Poverty
Alleviation as a Business |
| The
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs |
| Migration
Policy Institute |
| quotes
related to subsistence |
| quotes
related to poverty |
| quotes
related to suffering |