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This is horrible. Go to Kiva.org and fight world poverty. I've already contacted them to see if there's anything Kiva members can do to prevent this in the future with micro-lending.This is horrible. Go to Kiva.org and fight world poverty. I've already contacted... more
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Akiane Kramarik is a young prodigy from Sandpoint, Idaho,
who has been drawing and painting lifelike artwork since she was
4. Akiane (pronounced ah-KEE-ah-nah) says she first met God when she was 3. And now she's hoping to use her amazing gift to help feed needy children around the world.
"It all began to happen when she started to share her dreams
and visions."Prior to that time, Forelli had been raised as an
unbeliever, in an atheistic family from Lithuania
."And my husband was a former Catholic and did not share
in the family beliefs.
We didn't pray together, there was no discussion about God,
and we didn't go to church.
Then all of a sudden, Akiane was starting to talk about God."
" Although she was 3 at the time, she'll always remember
God's first message to her.
"He said, 'You have to do this, and I'll help you.'
He said, 'Now you can help people.' I said, 'Yes, I will.'
But I said it in different words in my mind.
I speak through my mind to Him."
Akiane Kramarik is a young prodigy from Sandpoint, Idaho,
who has been drawing and... more
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Click on the yellow button at The Hunger Site and give a cup of food to the hungry at no cost to you.
The Hunger Site was founded to focus the power of the Internet on a specific humanitarian need: the eradication of world hunger. Since its launch in June 1999, the site has established itself as a leader in online activism, helping to feed the world's hungry. On average, over 220,000 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the yellow "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 300 million visitors have given more than 500 million cups of staple food.
Click on the yellow button at The Hunger Site and give a cup of food to the hungry at... more
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In the lakeside capital of the central African country of Burundi, 40-year-old Lucie Nahimana on Thursday fed her family of six "black flour," a low-quality cassava root that many here have resorted to eating because they can't afford anything else.
Thousands of miles away, in the port city of Tianjin, China, physician Ning Aimin scanned the shelves of her supermarket for yogurt, a food that was practically unheard-of here a decade ago but has become a favorite of many of China's newly affluent.
On a chilly highway outside Gualeguaychu, Argentina, 10 trucks carrying enough rice to feed 3 million people in one day sat stranded on the side of the road, casualties of a 100-day-long farm strike that's paralyzed that country's giant grain industry.
These three episodes, all on Thursday, are interconnecting pieces of what's emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing the planet: how to feed humanity in this age of skyrocketing food and energy prices...
(click on the link to read the rest of the story)
In the lakeside capital of the central African country of Burundi, 40-year-old Lucie... more
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Shot in Brick Lane in the heart of London's East End, this film reveals the extent of remittances.This is money sent by migrants and Diasporas to friends, families and villages in some of the world's poorest countries. They don't wear their heart on their sleeve or a wristband to show they care and they go on sending money when the shocking TV images have faded. Remittances outstrip aid and foreign direct investment for many developing countries. There are no strings attached and as the film suggests, remittances better represent the aspirations of our peers globally than much of contemporary charitable giving and celebrity pleading to buy a hoe or a goat.Shot in Brick Lane in the heart of London's East End, this film reveals the... more
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