Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organization’s (ADDRO) comprehensive programs address improving the food supply, gender and reproductive health, malaria, disability rehabilitation and water and sanitation throughout northern Ghana.
Kate Santich in the Orlando Sentinel: Twelve-year-old Trinity Fore was roused too early from sleep by the clanging of a ladle on a pot. She
NPR’s All Things Considered broadcasts the story of how a homeless advocate, who is himself homeless, uses high tech to tell the story of what
In case you need to know, it costs more to be poor than to be rich: Poverty 101: We’ll start with the basics. Like food:
Last week, Dante White married Nhiahni Chestnut, a woman whose battles with drugs and alcohol had left her on the streets of the US capital as well. Both are unemployed. “I was basically living from day to day, trying to survive, and I wound up meeting him,” Chestnut told AFP at the couple’s wedding, held in the tiny chapel of Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown.
Come Saturday, Dante and Nhiahni will marry. People will journey from every corner of Washington to see them exchange vows — wealthy Georgetowners and people who live on the city’s rough edges, all joining hands to celebrate the marriage of two gentle souls whose only address is the steam grates in the shadow of the U.S. Department of the Interior headquarters.
Small farmers from poor countries are helping larger rich countries cope with the financial crisis.
From the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs: A groundbreaking report, Faith in the Balance: A Call to Action, which calls on The Episcopal Church
We’ve outsourced compassion. The United States has deliberately and steadily shifted the burden of meeting social needs from the government onto a loosely organized, haphazardly regulated patchwork of nonprofits. Many groups are closely aligned with business interests through their funding or their boards, and many rely heavily on foundation funding, which ties them even more closely to Wall Street’s fortunes.
“How do you think I feel every time I walk down your Main Street to meet you for lunch? The looks I get as a Latino man walking down the street of your fancy town. People on the sidewalk look at me, like, ‘What are YOU doing here? What are YOU going to steal?” Man, I’m afraid of going to your neighborhood. Now you know how it feels. Don’t you know that your town is scary?”