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mtrinko

global poverty (through Care an orginaztion that fights global poverty) - 0 views

www.care.org/...index.asp

cst global poverty care

shared by mtrinko on 12 Dec 09 - Cached
  • CARE initiates community savings-and-loan programs and provides technical training to help people begin or expand small businesses that will increase family income.
  • . Experience shows that learning attacks poverty at its roots
  • The goal of these projects is to reduce the health risks of water-related diseases and to increase the earning potential of households by saving time otherwise spent gathering water.
  • mtrinko on 12 Dec 09
     
    Helps for justice because woment get job training and such to "create permanent social change".
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  • mtrinko on 12 Dec 09
     
    Social justice
  • mtrinko on 12 Dec 09
     
    Helps make sure that the people don't just have to relay on help from care. But can eventually do it by themsleves without help.
  • mtrinko on 12 Dec 09
     
    Just to say it again, education in super important. That paragraph says it better than I ever could. But bassiclaly the more you know the more you can do in life. (Also the knowelge can be passed down to future generations).
  • mtrinko on 12 Dec 09
     
    Care also helps fight diease, helps get mothers and children food they need (which most likely helps with those MD'S, not sure if i put the right letters but it helps with the goals to have more babies life and there mothers).
Brian Tieu

Partners In Health (PIH), Health Care for the Poor - 1 views

www.pih.org/home.html

rising cost of living (health care)

shared by Brian Tieu on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • An express line for AIDS treatment "Have you ever waited in line for a long time for something you didn’t just want but desperately needed? Have you ever faced the prospect of dying in line while you waited?" ask PIH Advocacy and Policy Director Donna Barry and Brook K. Baker of Health GAP in a recent Boston Globe op-ed. With 10 million HIV patients waiting to receive life-saving drugs, what we need now is bold leadership and fulfilled promises from Washington to increase AIDS funding and continue saving lives. Read more.
  • Brian Tieu on 14 Dec 09
     
    Charity group that seeks to provide health care, treatment and training for those that fall below the poverty line/can't afford it. Influence originally based in the U.S., but has extended into Haiti, Peru, Russia, and a number of other places
Shawna Martin

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - 2 views

www.nccbuscc.org

shared by Shawna Martin on 08 Dec 09 - Cached
  • prevent the health reform bill from using federal funds to pay for health plans that include elective abortions. The ban would be similar to the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976, to ban federal funds in the Health and Human Services’ appropriations bill from paying for coverage that includes most abortions.
    • Ms_Armstrong !
      Ms_Armstrong ! on 09 Dec 09
       
      The Bishops are seeking fundamental structural change at the level of POLICY.
  • WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the Senate to make essential changes its health reform bill in order to keep in place federal law on abortion funding and conscience protection on abortion, protect access to health care for immigrants and include strong provisions for adequate affordabilit
Phuong Le

AUL Action Legal Memo: The Vulnerable Hyde Amendment - REAL Health Care Respects LIFE - 0 views

www.realhealthcarerespectslife.com/?page_id=388

shared by Phuong Le on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The Hyde Amendment prevents states from using federal funds under Medicaid to pay for abortions (except under limited circumstances, currently when the mother’s life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest); however, the Hyde Amendment is not permanent law.
    • Phuong Le
      Phuong Le on 14 Dec 09
       
      Every year, the Hyde Amendment is sent back to congress for approval. Many organizations, such as the AUL, fight for the passing of the AUL.
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