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Visit FreeRice.com to Make Free Donations FreeRice.com is a wonderful new site that can help end global hunger. Launched in October 2007, FreeRice.com is reminiscent of TheHungerSite in its ease of use and wonderful ability to impact the world. Like The Hunger Site, it allows you to make free advertiser-supported donations to the World Food Programme. All you have to do is sharpen your vocabulary. The site asks users to play a multiple-choice word game to generate donations. Hunger: The World’s Greatest Solvable Problem. Haiti: school meals programmes were crucial after the 2010 earthquake, bringing children back into school and helping restore a sense of normalcy.
Copyright: WFP/Alejandro Chicheri Nearly a billion people go to bed hungry every night. 2011 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics by World Hunger Education Service. 2015 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics World Hunger Education Service.
The ironic nature of the worlds food crisis [Infographic] Fill the Cup! URGENT: Syrian children and their families need your help The crisis in Syria is entering a sixth brutal year.
For Syrian families, this somber anniversary means another year away from home, another day not knowing where their next meal will come from, and another night that children will go to bed with empty stomachs. Just $50 will give one child food for the next three months. Bill Gates centre-stage at IFAD: Imagining a different future for agriculture. For a billionaire and former entrepreneur, Bill Gates is pretty candid about the limits of capitalism.
His perspective comes across as entirely apolitical. It’s an objective fact, he suggests, that markets will always fall short on research and development benefiting the world’s poorest people, most of whom are subsistence farmers. Investors simply calculate that the returns on smallholder farming are too slow and the risks too high. Instead of helping the poor, says the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, technological innovations in agriculture tend to enhance the lives and livelihoods of those who are already well off.
Centre-stage with Bill Gates. If You Care About the Poorest, You Care About Agriculture. Global Wealth Distribution. As we have discussed, from 1979 to 2007, inflation-adjusted incomes of the top 1 percent of households increased significantly versus the rest of the wage earners (i.e., the remaining 99%).
Those even better off, the top 0.1 percent (the top one one-thousandth of households), saw their incomes grow 390%. In contrast, incomes for the bottom 90 percent grew just 5 percent between 1979 and 2007. All of that income growth, however, occurred in the unusually strong growth period from 1997 to 2000, which was followed by a fall in income from 2000 to 2007.
Is this wealth concentration a global phenomena, or is it a US centric? Lets go to the global data, via Credit Suisse Research Institute’s Global Wealth Databook: Source: Credit Suisse, Research Institute And as a reminder, here is the recent growth in the US data, via EPI: Source: Economic Policy Institute UPDATE: November 1 2011 12:51pm. Global gdp / global population. UNICEF Home. Un. The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions.
They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. The UN is also working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda. News on Millennium Development Goals Launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Transforming slums in Africa and Asia - Homeless International. UN Millennium Project. Calls to action for 0.7% UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, In Larger Freedom (March 2005) "Developed countries that have not already done so should establish timetables to achieve the 0.7 per cent target of gross national income for official development assistance by no later than 2015, starting with significant increases no later than 2006 and reaching 0.5 per cent by 2009.
" Commission For Africa, Our Common Interest (March 2005) "Rich countries should aim to spend 0.7 percent of their annual income on aid, with plans specified for meeting this target . " Causes of Poverty. Author and Page information by Anup ShahThis Page Last Updated Sunday, September 28, 2014.
Poverty.com - Hunger and World Poverty. International Aid – Poverty.com. Quick Summary: Almost all of the deaths from hunger and disease that you see on this site can be stopped. The cost to do this is about $195 billion a year, according to the United Nations. Twenty-two developed countries below have pledged to work towards each giving 0.7% (a little less than 1%) of their national income in international aid, which would raise the $195 billion. Some countries are slow to meet their pledge. Source: OECD. The figures for 2013 are due out in April 2014. Details. All We Need. Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?