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Goldblum J

Empowering Women in Poverty - 7 views

www.thp.org/...empowering_women

poverty hunger women Hunger Project

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  • Goldblum J on 12 Jan 11
     
    This article talks about women in Africa that are in poverty and how the Hunger Project is helping.
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  • Chapman M on 12 Jan 11
     
    The fact that more than three quarters of women have HIV is scary I felt. When I saw that women in are giving up their food their food so that their children can eat is really sad. This article and all the other articles that I've been reading makes me want to do something.
  • Bloom A on 12 Jan 11
     
    this is a really great article. i new that poverty affected everyone that has to go through it, but i never realised how much more it affects woman. I wonder why AIDS is now more of a womans disease?
  • Haines M on 12 Jan 11
     
    I couldn't believe that 3/4 of young people with HIV and AIDS were women! That really scares me. I agree with Mariah that women giving up food for their children is really sad. This article really makes me want to find "solutions" to poverty.
  • Brown B on 12 Jan 11
     
    I couldn't belive that women are usually in poverty! Young girls don't go to school, and 3/4 of young people with HIV and AIDS are young girls! To hear women giving up their meals so their children can have food is so sad. THis really wants me to take action and try to help those in need.
  • Walouke A on 12 Jan 11
     
    2/3 of women!! I agree with Molly. That scares me as well. The one thing I'm wondering is why women? Why are women getting the disease? Women are making a sacrifice so their children can eat is very brave. Especially in poverty. I can see they are making a big scarafice.
  • Fischbach J on 14 Jan 11
     
    I thought is was really sad when they said that women are trying to help meet their families needs but are restricted because of the lack of resources. I would hate to be in poverty, but it would be even worse if you had to watch your children suffer and there is no way that you can help them.
Sorenson H

Gender and Poverty - 4 views

www.undp.org/...focus_gender_and_poverty.shtml

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  • Sorenson H on 13 Jan 11
     
    Forgot the tags and comment oops O.o i will post the comment. I find it amazing that 6 out of 10 of the poorest people in the world are women. This will tell you about the difference in gender and poverty!
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  • Maddox M on 13 Jan 11
     
    I dont think its surprising that more women are in poverty than men.I think there is that certain amount of feminism involved in payment. Sadly this proves it
  • Omar H on 13 Jan 11
     
    I find the article very sad. I had no clue that poverty could be effected by gender. I was also shocked to see that 75% of women cant get bank loans because they have unpaid or insecure jobs.
  • Tuttle S on 13 Jan 11
     
    Knowing that women are the poorest gender is both outragoious and agreeable. Since women are the care takers in the family. But losing 85% of calories getting water, is unhealthy and sad.
  • Cook A on 13 Jan 11
     
    i think that if women got the same oppritunties as men like in jobs and education, there would be less problem with poverty in women.
Gonzalez A

Poverty Facts - 11 views

www.unmillenniumproject.org/...3-MP-PovertyFacts-E.pdf

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  • Gonzalez A on 11 Jan 11
     
    Overall it's just different facts about poverty. Some of the categories are Health, Agriculture and hunger. I wonder why women were mentioned more.
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  • Pavlechko M on 11 Jan 11
     
    It really amazed me how little they live on a day. They live on a dollar a day and I go the mall and buy $100 worth of clothes.
  • Plummer H on 11 Jan 11
     
    It Disturbied me to learn that about every min some where in the wolrd a women dies giving birth. It also shocked me that about 40% of the worlds population doesnt have bacis sanitary water.
  • Green C on 11 Jan 11
     
    A lot of the facts in this are pretty suprising, like that every 3.6 some one dies of starvation.
  • Magnuson A on 11 Jan 11
     
    It was really disheartening to hear that over half the people in the world live on less then 2 dollars a day
  • Mendez V on 11 Jan 11
     
    It made me feel really bad when it said that six million kids die every year from malnutrition before their 5th birthday.
  • Eyen J on 11 Jan 11
     
    I could not believe that 800 million people every day go to bed hungry, and that 300 million of them are kids.
  • Banks T on 12 Jan 11
     
    800 million people go to bed hungry every night! I don't even know what it feels like to be starved or to go to bed without food. I can't even begin to imagine what these people are going through.
  • Ackerman B on 12 Jan 11
     
    Tara's right...it's hard to put yourself in somebody else's shoes when you are so used to having basic things, like food. But it's important to try.
  • Reed E on 12 Jan 11
     
    The Paragrapsh that really caught my attention was the phone tittled "Big corperations make poor pay higher taxes" becuase it just seems crazy to me that you would tax the people who are the most likely not to be able to pay? not to mention the majority who would be buying the corperations product?
  • Kruzan A on 12 Jan 11
     
    If i was hungry before i went to bed, i would just walk downstairs and get a snack. It's hard to imagine that these people do not have that, and that they are almost always hungry. I just can't even imagine that.
  • Martin L on 12 Jan 11
     
    mr reed the world sucks te rich are paying incentives to government so they wont raise taxes on the rich. so where are they gonna get the money? middle and lower class people!
  • Mullet K on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article is very depressing, the way it's written. But, it does have very interesting facts. It's hard to believe that basically 1 in 6 people are living on less than a dollar a day. In our country, a dollar can barely buy you a burrito or a burger. Although some people may use the excuse that stuff costs less in other places, so what? In our country, the minimum wage is about $56 dollars a day, and a lot of people have other money saved up. It seems like so much, compared to the less than one dollar, but people are barely getting by on that. It's just not fair that a lot of people have a ton of money, but there are more people living on pratically no money.
  • Tuttle S on 13 Jan 11
     
    This article shows income poverty, health poverty, poverty effects on women, and poverty effects on children. From deaths to the struggles of surviving poverty, these charts and percentages show what is happening around the world to over 1 billion people in poverty.
  • Omar H on 14 Jan 11
     
    This website really opened my eyes. I knew that there was an amount of people who live under a dollar a day but i didnt realize that ONE BILLION live that way. It was also horrble to see that ELEVEN MILLION children die each year because they cant afford to cure their sickness.
Strauss V

Poverty.com - 4 views

www.poverty.com/

Hunger and World Poverty

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  • Kara Smith on 10 Jan 11
     
    This website provides information about several health issues that are a result of poverty. It also introduces you to one of the several solutions to help end poverty. This article really forced me to see the reality of it and just how many people are impacted.
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  • Sun K on 11 Jan 11
     
    This website is about world poverty and its effects. The home page has a map of people dying all around the world because of hunger/hunger related causes.
  • Isaacson R on 12 Jan 11
     
    This website shows deaths this hour, and sadly it is mostly kids ans women who die. I noticed none of the deaths are from America.
  • Borror D on 12 Jan 11
     
    Well, this article tells you facts about poverty. It tells you organizations that help out this problem too. It told me that over 25,000 people die because of poverty and I was like, "OMGNOWAY!!"
  • Kruzan A on 12 Jan 11
     
    It really mad me sad to see all of the faces on the map. It made me sad, but yet it mezmorized me to see all of the people that had died
  • Goldblum J on 13 Jan 11
     
    I hated how the faces were showing up, but what made me sad was that most of them were in asia, africa, and a few were in south america. What i REALLY didn't like was at the bottom of the home page, it said the faces and the names were fake.
  • Cook A on 13 Jan 11
     
    this article expains statistics and how although there is enough food for everybody, not everybody can afford it. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger,yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. its sad to see how many people are dying in just this hour.
  • Phillips L on 13 Jan 11
     
    I was really disturbed when I read that 25,000 people die each day of hunger or hunger related causes... I knew people died but I never thought that it would be that many...
  • Smyth C on 13 Jan 11
     
    Being in the situation we are, or at least the situation I am, I always feel very datatched rfom the world of poverty. But seeing the actual faces and coming to mental realization that these4 are people with families and storys was really an eye opener. good find.
  • Dendiu S on 13 Jan 11
     
    oh my god, this article makes me soo depressed. but i don't understand how they could have the picture up of people who just died in that hour? unless i read it wrong
  • Strauss V on 13 Jan 11
     
    One person dies every 3 and a half seconds according to the United Nations. Children die more often than adults. The world has plenty of food to feed everyone but the problem is that people are trapped in severe poverty. They dont have the money to buy the food. If they never have food, they become week and sick causing them to not work and they get poorer. There are programs around the world the can help children buy food when they are at school so their families can save money.
  • Estice H on 13 Jan 11
     
    It's sad just knowing how many people die from poverty, but seeing their faces makes it even worse!
  • Teets S on 13 Jan 11
     
    The fact that every 3 1/2 seconds, a person dies due to poverty is really sickening. It makes me feel guilty that we have such a great life compared to others.
  • Costello R on 14 Jan 11
     
    thats so sad that over 25,000 people die a day because of poverty. it is also very sad because they show the pictures of the people who died witch made me very sad.
Buchbinder A

Dealing With Poverty While Traveling in Africa - 2 views

goafrica.about.com/...-while-traveling-in-africa.htm

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  • Buchbinder A on 11 Jan 11
     
    This article talkes about how a women took a trip to africa and she talks about how bad the poverty level is there and her reations. she also tells the reader some sugerstons to help with the people. I was suprised with some of the sugerstons she gave to the reader.
Walouke A

Being in Poverty is Humiliating - 0 views

www.thinkaboutpoverty.com/humility.html

hunger humiliating poverty

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  • Walouke A on 12 Jan 11
     
    This story is about a women who is housing 4 children without food or money. She is offered help from her parents. She is humiliated to have to have food donated to her because how they can not afford any food. I never thought people would be humiliated to recieve food from their own family members.
Cook A

Poverty in America is on the Rise - 1 views

www.associatedcontent.com/...merica_is_on_the_rise_pg2.html

America poverty level poverty poor statistics

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  • Cook A on 12 Jan 11
     
    This article is about staistics and how America is ineffective at reducing poverty. The United States has suffered with having almost the highest poverty rate. One in every three adults will experience extreme poverty at least one year of their adult life. 6.8 of these extremely poor people are men, with the women making up the difference of 9.1 million.
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