November 2009
37 posts
Child Labour →
“Whether it is gathering clothing and blankets, providing volunteer supervision...”
– Elizabeth R. Mitchell
“nobody heard the Big Bang
or saw the solar system
evicted from a black hole...”
– Dennis Rohatyn
Disney voluntEARS →
“It’s not what you’ve been given, it’s what you do with what...”
– Eddi Reader
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we’d be at war.
-Jeff Bridges
We are asking people to understand that slavery still exists today; in fact, according to a recent New York Times article, if you count the number of women and children in bonded labor, domestic slavery or sexual slavery today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.”
-Charlotte Bunch
“The World Food Program says for the first time in history, the number of hungry...”
– VOA News (via retropolitics)
Watchfish-named-francis:
ak7:
Ted Talks: Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty
Free The Children →
“The change starts within each one of us, and ends only when all children are...”
– Craig Kielburger
Mental illness and Poverty: Do the two really go...
Many people ask the question is poverty what triggers the mental illness or are people living in povertous situations due to the fact they are already mentally ill?
“Human beings are not expendable.”
– A.R
Slave
1.a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2.a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person: a slave to a drug.
“Are we truly helping the homeless, or are we just trying to help ourselves?”
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The...”
– Mother Theresa (via tsokolatengtunaw)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonslr/496681925/ →
“Most folks are perhaps familiar with the adage that, ‘If you give a man a...”
– http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/slo-homeless/a3756318eacc2c7aa1255eddf5a9cbcc
“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in...”
– Bill Vaughan (via simplicitycounts)
