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  STRUGGLING WITH A BASIC NEED: SUSTENANCE

At times my life is dominated by a struggle to produce or provide basic necessities so my family and I can continue to survive. This tiring struggle often leaves me in a weakened state, but regularly I pause and ask, “Are my basic sustenance needs being satisfactorily met, and are prospects good that they will continue to be met in the future?” If the answer is no, then I must make changes. What I most fear is the day when I have no options, when I don’t know what changes to make. Then I will worry that a slow, painful death lurks nearby. (Note: Sometimes, in their struggle to survive, poor people will not accord other people or the environment the respect that they would if their making a living were not so difficult.)

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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #24: Struggling With A Basic Need: Sustenance

Poverty  (from online encyclopedia)
Poverty Threshold (from online encyclopedia)
Subsistence Farming (from online encyclopedia)
Sustenance (from online encyclopedia)
Homelessness (from online encyclopedia)
The FAO's Special Programme on Food Security (UN agency seeks to cut world hunger in half)
Working in the Shadows by Gabriel Thompson (read excerpts from this 2010 book at book's website)
"Unclean Water Claims More Lives Than War" (March 22, 2010 story from Environment News Service)
A Question of Sustenance, by Gary Stix (September 2007 Scientific American article)
A Dollar A Day (devoted to "examining poverty in developing nations" and "raising awareness of the plight of the poor")
Human Development Reports (website of this UN program)
UNICEF ("for every child: health, education, equality, protection")
Survival International (devoted to helping tribal people defend their lives, protect their lands, etc)
Africa--The Global Face of Poverty, by Moraa Gitaa (2007 article posted on G21 "The World's Magazine")
"Virtual Visit to the Kpawa Community of Togo" (share their struggles, dreams, daily routines--from Plan USA)
My Own Four Walls (a video about kids and homelessness, from the non-profit Hear Us)
Meeting the Health Needs of the Very Poor
Poverty Around The World
Poverty: Challenging the Myths
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
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