Poverty

11 Oct Influencing Policy to Tackle Poverty in the USA

Posted at 14:50h in Accountability, Advocacy, Community, Education, Homelessness, Policy, Poverty, Social Justice by Qiana Torregano 2 Comments

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Results uses real experiences of poverty to advocate directly with members of Congress to push for change. This powerful platform influences policy in USA, while also challenging harmful misconceptions about people who live in poverty. I am Qiana Marie, a rose from the concrete. Born and...

03 Oct Providing Support to People in Crisis in England

Posted at 08:59h in Community, Food, Philanthropy, Poverty, Refugees by Rachel Hastings 0 Comments

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Rachel explains how Storehouse helps turn the lives around of people in crisis through simple acts of support. On my first day at the Storehouse Project, my new coworker sat me down in the small meeting room that also doubled as our office. As she began...

11 Sep Helping Vulnerable Women on the Streets of Scotland

Posted at 13:33h in Community, Empathy, Gender, Girls, Homelessness, Philanthropy, Poverty, Volunteering, Women, Young People by Nicki Bradwell 0 Comments

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With the help of her friends, Nicki has been spreading bags of kindness to homeless women in central Scotland I woke up this morning to hot water for a shower, clean clothes, food to eat and a safe home and neighbourhood to live in, surrounded by...

25 May In Conversation with Vivian Onano

Posted at 12:52h in Advocacy, Child Marriage, Children, Community, Education, Girls, Healthcare, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Policy, Poverty, Social Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, Women, Youth by Eva Grant 0 Comments

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Here’s what young changemaker Vivian Onano has to say to young people about following passions, remembering community, and making a difference in 2017 and beyond. If the term ‘old soul’ were still in vogue, twenty-something wunderkind Vivian Onano would be the bell of that ball....

10 Apr Empowering African Women for Elephant Habitat Conservation

Posted at 16:32h in Agriculture, Business, Community, Conservation, Environment, International Development, Poverty, Social Enterprise, Social Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, Women by Olivier Behra 0 Comments

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ELEPHAS is a High Quality 100% Natural Beauty Line, Designed to Support Women's Involvement in Elephant Conservation When I met Aouba in the little town of Léo, in the south of Burkina Faso, I immediately saw that she could make a real difference. During my travels...

29 Mar A Voice for Girls from India to the USA

Posted at 11:41h in Advocacy, Children, Community, Education, Girls, Infrastructure, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Poverty, Social Justice, Volunteering, Women, Young People by Archana Somasegar 1 Comment

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From Building a Computer Lab & Sewing Studio for an Orphanage in India, to Becoming a Teen Advisor for the United Nations Foundation Every summer, my family would take a trip to India. On my birthday – August 15th – my entire family would pile into a gleaming white van...

15 Mar Living on the Margins in Glasgow

Posted at 17:45h in Community, Empathy, Exploitation, Freedom, Infrastructure, Poverty by Claire Aufhammer 0 Comments

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Lessons through Friendship on the Other Side I’ve just moved home after three years living on the other side – of the world and the canal and the mainstream. There are lots of ways to describe my former neighborhood and home, but you know what I...

24 Feb Empowering Impoverished Fishing Communities, Madagascar

Posted at 17:07h in Business, Community, Disaster Resilience, Education, Environment, Fishing, Food, Healthcare, International Development, Poverty, Volunteering, Water, Young People by Alex Sanderson 0 Comments

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Vestability: A student run organisation providing affordable buoyancy vests to the world’s impoverished fishing communities. A few years ago I was volunteering in Madagascar for SEED, a charity aimed at eradicating poverty and environmental degradation in the Anosy region of Madagascar. It was here that I...

Kids Staring Church Window Zambia, Forgotten Voices

13 Feb Innovating Orphan Care in Zimbabwe, Zambia & Malawi

Posted at 17:22h in Agriculture, AIDS, Business, Children, Community, Education, Exploitation, HIV, Human Trafficking, International Development, Leadership, Philanthropy, Poverty by Ryan Keith 0 Comments

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Catalyzing a Sustainable, Community-Based Response to the Orphan Crisis, through the Local Church January 12, 2017: My heart squealed with joy, as I watched cute pink piglets seemingly grow before my eyes. Far from my home in Pennsylvania, I had come to this remote area about...

Refugee Run, Centre for Global Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong

06 Feb Fighting Inequality From Hong Kong

Posted at 16:43h in Accountability, Advocacy, Education, Healthcare, International Development, Policy, Poverty, Refugees, Sustainable Development Goals, Young People, Youth by Sharon Lo 0 Comments

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Empowering Students toward SDG-Oriented Education and Action The Sustainable Development Goals (a.k.a. SDGs) are a defining paradigm of our time. Adopted by all 193 UN Member States in September 2015, they represent an international consensus strategy to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for...