Blogs Posts on "Poverty"

Sathya Sai Baba 84th Birthday Celebrations. Will 21st Century India Tolerate The Shame That Is Puttaparthi? by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Nov 21, 2009Unimaginable splurgings of pomp and conspicuous waste attend Sathya Sai Baba's imperial-like birthday celebrations. The global financial meltdown will not have melted down his vast reserves of gold. Many politicians from right across India's polit...

Golden Throne of India’s Sathya Sai Baba. He says he will Rule the world soon by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Nov 21, 2009Soon never comes ... On November 23, 2009, he celebrates with enormous pomp and extravagance his 84th birthday. Sathya Sai Baba is haggard, weak and ailing, although on his 60th birthday he proclaimed that he would thenceforth not age. He long ag...

Ten Theological Truths about Poverty and the Poor from the Life of Jesus by Dream Awakener on Nov 19, 2009Hope in the Prison of Poverty Originally uploaded by KathyAAdams The class I’m taking at Fuller this quarter is on Poverty and Development, and one of the exercises I did one day was to reflect on some portion of scripture and talk about how...

Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41 by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 18, 2009A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format (quoted line from source...

Discover Top Medical Tourism Facilities Amongst Extreme Poverty by Home Suite Home on Nov 18, 2009Copyright (c) 2008 Medical-Tourism-Guide. com You may be wondering how it is that a third world country can offer medical services at a state of the art facility. How is it possible that a country can offer services to foreigners that it cannot offe...

Don't Forget To Bring Home Some Wood by Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo on Nov 16, 2009Many of us hate to go shopping even for grocery. Also, we hate to carry the food from our car into the house. But I bet now of us have to carry the fuel to cook the food to our...

Portfolios of the poor by Make Wealth History on Nov 16, 2009As Muhammed Yunus found when investigating poverty, one of the key reasons that poor people are unable to lift themselves out of destitution is that they do not have access to credit. The banks simply do not trust the poor to be able to repay a loan,...

Fresh Produce On Its Way To The Market by Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo on Nov 15, 2009Fresh produce is a good source of nutrients. Congolese, especially the poor, do not eat a lot of fresh produce. Why? Fresh produce spoil quite fast due to lack of refrigeration. In a country without reliable transportation, it is impossible...

Do Your Holiday Shopping -- and Do Some Good -- Through Oxfam America by Susan Heim on Parenting on Nov 13, 2009I always have a really hard time buying gifts for the adults in my life. Let’s face it: We really don’t need any more stuff! How many more bottles of after shave or perfume can we use? This year, I’d like to feel really good about the gifts tha...

OFW, Good or Bad for the Philippines by American in Davao on Nov 12, 2009First, what does OFW stand for? Well I thought it stood for Overseas Foreign Worker, but from some research on Wikipedia, they show OFW stands for Overseas Filipino Worker. This group is people with Citizenship of the Philippines and lives and or wor...