CHILDREN NEED US, YOU CAN HELP
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- Created on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 17:33
We live day to day, within our own comfort zone, oblivious to the plight of many poverty-stricken children. They need our help! Together we can make a difference, in their lives, by delivering food boxes abroad and locally and by keeping churches, shelters, and non-profit organizations stocked with our distributed food. We strive to teach families the lifetime tool of sustainability, through our farm outreaches. Health care is made available, due to our dedicated, professionally trained, medical volunteers. We aim to make lives better, with our housing programs and bed net campaigns. There's work ahead, but also promise. Let's Help the Children!
BIG SOCIETY: POVERTY , FROM WIKIPEDIA
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Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty.
Poverty reduction has historically been a result of economic growth as increased levels of production, such as modern industrial technology, made more wealth available for those who were otherwise too poor to afford them. Also, investments in modernizing agriculture and increasing yields is considered the core of the antipoverty effort, given three-quarters of theworld's poor are rural farmers.
STREET CHILDREN IN LATIN AMERICA
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Millions of children throughout the world live on the street. These children are among the most deprived; they usually have no access to health care or education and some of them have been victims of violence even before taking to the street. Street children are seen by many as worthless, and many countries have used violent and punitive measures to remove them. Recently new approaches have been introduced that aim to restore these children to their families and societies. Initial evaluation suggests that these schemes can be successful. This article discusses the phenomenon of street children in Latin America and seeks to provide some answers to commonly asked questions.
