a few tiny steps to help alleviate world hunger

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• Click on the answer that best defines the word.
• If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
• For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
  

What else can I do to help end hunger?

Here are two key things you can do to help end hunger. Both are free and easy to do.

1. Add your name to the One Campaign, where several million people have already joined together “as One” to end hunger and extreme poverty. If enough people join, dreams for a better world can be made into reality very quickly.
2. The United Nations estimates that the cost to end world hunger completely, along with diseases related to hunger and poverty, is about $195 billion a year. Twenty-two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. Some of the countries have already met this goal. Others are being a little slow, but this can be fixed. You can see how the countries are doing here. You can print a letter to support your country’s participation here.

Hunger and World Poverty

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam, UNICEF.

http://www.poverty.com/

These first few sites offer information following up on what is presented here on Poverty.com.

One Campaign

United Nations World Food Program (WFP)

UNICEF

Millennium Campaign

Global Issues

Next are listed many major international organizations that have related information about poverty, hunger, and preventable diseases. Together, these organizations comprise hundreds of thousands of men and women all over the earth. Many of these individuals work long hours in the fight against poverty, often in sparse or dangerous conditions.

Action Against Hunger

ADRA International

Africare

American Jewish World Service

American Red Cross

AmeriCares

Australian Overseas Aid Program (AUSAID)

Austrian Development Cooperation

Baptist World Aid

Belgian Development Cooperation

Bread for the World

Canadian International Development Organization (CIDA)

CARE

Catholic Relief Services

Christian Children's Fund

DATA

Denmark Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Food for the Hungry

French Agency for Development (CFD)

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Global AIDS Alliance

Global Call to Action Against Poverty

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Grameen

Greece Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Habitat for Humanity

Heifer International

The Hunger Project

International Committee of the Red Cross

International Medical Corps

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Rescue Committee

Irish Aid Department of Foreign Affairs

Islamic Relief

Italian Directorate General for Development Cooperation

Japan International Cooperation Agency

Lutheran World Relief

Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation

Make Poverty History

MAP International

Measles Initiative

Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

Mercy Corps

Millennium Project

Muslim Aid

Netherlands Development Cooperation

New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency (NZAID)

Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Oxfam

Peace Corps

Portuguese Institute for Development Support

Project HOPE

Rehydration Project

Save the Children

Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)

Stop TB Partnership

Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

UNICEF

United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

United Nations World Food Program (WFP)

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

World Bank

World Concern

World Health Organization (WHO)

World Vision

http://www.poverty.com/more.html

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Advertising mail by the numbers

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"Earth to Humanity."

RECYCLE!!!!

Through our national program, Call2Recycle™, the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) can help you recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones. Rechargeable batteries are commonly found in cordless power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers, camcorders, digital cameras, and remote control toys. RBRC recycles the following battery chemistries: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and Small Sealed Lead* (Pb). RBRC is dedicated to keeping rechargeable batteries and cell phones out of our nation’s solid waste stream and preserving natural resources.
Answer the Call to Recycle!

* weighing less than 2 lbs./1 kg

http://www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/
http://www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/docs/overview.pdf

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OurEarth:

Learn about recycling programs in your neighborhood and ways anyone can reduce their consumption.

http://www.ourearth.org/recycling.htm

Laptop Giving

Give One Get One

Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. This is the first time the revolutionary XO laptop has been made available to the general public. For a donation of $399, one XO laptop will be sent to empower a child in a developing nation and one will be sent to the child in your life in recognition of your contribution. $200 of your donation is tax-deductible (your $399 donation minus the fair market value of the XO laptop you will be receiving).

For all U.S. donors who participate in the Give One Get One program, T-Mobile is offering one year of complimentary HotSpot access. Find out more.

Please be aware that we will make every effort to deliver the XO laptops by the holidays, but quantities are limited. Early purchasers have the best chance of receiving their XO laptops in time for the holidays, but we cannot guarantee timing.

Please review our terms and conditions.

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George Bush singing U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Thanks to http://onegoodmove.org and Rx @ http://thepartyparty.com/ Greets to arstechnica!

VOTE!!!

WHY SHOULD YOU ROCK THE VOTE?

• Jobs and Finances: Unemployment for young adults is typically 40-50% higher than the national average, and the current economy is no exception--about 10% of adults under age 25 are jobless and looking. While young adults struggle to get on a career path, they are relegated to part-time and temporary jobs that lack benefits, good pay and basic rights. Many are borrowing heavily: for 18-24 year olds, credit card debt increased by 104% in the last decade. Read more
• Cost of Education: Debt for college students is climbing. For the nearly two thirds of college students who graduate with student loan debt, the average burden nearing $19,000. That's nearly as high as the national average family debt burden. Meanwhile, 22% of high school graduates are unable to attend a four-year college due to cost. Many young adults leave school with debt, but without a diploma. Just over one-third of those who left school without completing a degree had borrowed between $10,000 and $20,000. Read more
• Health care: An astounding 50% of 18-24 year olds were uninsured at some point in 2002-2003. Right now, nearly 13 million 18-29 year olds have no health insurance. They are one third of the uninsured population. Turning 19 is the greatest risk to their health--that is when many get kicked off of family plans and government programs. Read more
• War & The Draft: There are 140,000 American troops in Iraq, and 80% of them are under the age of 35. With allied countries supplying only 20,000 troops, the burden of fighting this war is clearly falling on the shoulders of our young volunteers. Meanwhile, with our military unable to muster enough troops to meet its needs across the globe, intellectuals and policymakers are starting to talk about re-instating a service draft. Read more
• Voting rights : Its time to get rid of mandatory advanced voter registration. In states that have Election Day voter registration, the participation rate is 14% higher for young adults--proof that voter registration prevents voting. The voting rights of college students are also under attack--many election officials prevent students from voting in local elections, which is a violation of students' constitutional rights. Read more

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Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty

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What happens to a dream deferred?

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes, 1951

Con ánimo de lucro ( subtitle english )

Documental que habla sobre la pobreza del tercer y el primer mundo, analizando las dos sociedades desde las ONG, la televisión, la educación, los políticos y la religión, poniendo en duda la aplicación de los 8 objetivos del milenio y proponiendo una solución.