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13:05 27th Mar 2013

Notes: 1

Tags: coke coca cola development rural medicine poverty health

Clever Packaging: Essential Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Into Remote Villages

Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most.

10:41 23rd Dec 2012

Notes: 12

Tags: military poverty desperation corporations capitalism

watch this…
A great illustration on how corporations take control of countries, and how capitalism drives the expansion of the Military Industrial Complex.

An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’

07:41 14th Dec 2012

Notes: 10

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10 Reasons Homeless People Sleep Out in the Cold – and Die

1. The “#1 Reason Homeless People Don’t Use Shelters [is the] Lack of Available Beds,” writes formerly homeless Kylyssa Shay. Shelters are over-crowded in many, if not most, cities. People must line up hours before the facility opens to secure a bed for the night, and go through the same process the next day and the next.

2. Those who hold jobs (and many homeless people do) can’t always be in line at 4:30 in the afternoon, so they cannot get a shelter bed. Those who choose to stand in line may give up on finding employment because of the schedule.

3. As if homelessness didn’t cause enough physical discomfort (hunger, untreated pain from medical conditions, often being dirty, carrying all of one’s belongings), shelters often add a couple, like bed bugs and body lice, which are inevitable when a different homeless person sleeps in a bed each night. Contagious diseases are also common among a population that lacks access to nutritious food and adequate medical care. Shelters don’t have the means to quarantine the ill from the general population, making a night in a shelter a health risk. Hepatitis and tuberculosis are particularly common.

4. Straddling the line between uncomfortable and life-threatening is the lack of shoes that fit. Shoe theft is a common problem for the homeless, and is particularly common in shelters. (Theft generally is not unusual.) Not having shoes, or having only shoes that don’t fit well, can cause wounds that make it challenging or impossible to walk, and there are precious few places in a city where a homeless person can recuperate for a while without having to move along.

5. A dog or cat is often a homeless person’s best friend and only family. For young women on the street alone, a dog can also provide indispensable protection. But shelters for homeless people rarely accept their companion animals. Many people prefer sleeping outdoors to giving up their beloved friends.

21:42 25th Nov 2012

Notes: 36

Tags: latin america poverty charity uruguay

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The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has earned a nickname, “el presidente mas pobre” (translation: “poorest president”). The 77-year-old recently admitted to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he donates almost all of his presidential salary, making him the poorest, or, as Univision pointed out, most generous president, in the world. El presidente explained he receives $12,500 a month but keeps only $1,250. The public servant told the newspaper, “I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.”

14:39 5th Oct 2012

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21:39 18th Sep 2012

Notes: 250

Tags: poverty wealth rich poor economic development government politics colombia bogota latin america cars public transportation

“A developed country is no place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport.”

18:47 28th Aug 2012

Notes: 33

Tags: kiva poverty electricity development africa

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‎600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity.

21:39 22nd Aug 2012

Notes: 14

Tags: poverty kiva muhammad yunus economics

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives.

— Muhammad Yunus

15:01 7th Jun 2012

Notes: 5

Tags: kiva poverty international development microfinance microcredit

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How do the real local champions tolerate us, international ‘experts’ who rotate in and out of their countries and keep showing up – different faces, same stupid questions – like a bad penny? What do we mean when we talk about supporting local actors? And are we really ready to relinquish control, face our shortcomings and humbly listen?

— Marianne Elliott

21:49 16th May 2012

Notes: 466

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Tags: poverty quote humanity

Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when we have the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all humankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

— Martin Luther King Jr. (via socialuprooting)