December 2011
Work For All Supports Plan Canada’s “Sponsor a Child” program. This program focuses on creating hope and opportunities for children born into communities and families trapped by systemic poverty. Our contributions provide: • Adequate nutrition • Water and sanitation • Healthcare • Education • Family income Thoughts on the Occupy...
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Work For All Supports The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an organization that works, around the world, to help people build a better life. They are working in at least 177 countries, targeting 8 key goals to help the world’s poorest. Their number one goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. They work with the world’s leaders to...
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What is Systemic Poverty? A set of beliefs and conditions that hold people in chains to their cultural influences and absence of opportunity. People living in systemic poverty not only lack the knowledge, but also resources and training to throw off the yoke of poverty in order to better their lives and embrace hope for a better future. “Never doubt that...
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Are we making a difference? With billions of people around the world still living in poverty there is a lot of work to be done towards achieving our mission; one must not be discouraged. There is a lot of very positive and effective work being done that is and has been improving conditions for millions of people around the world. This month I want to point out...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 19481. Then in 1986, The UN Declaration of the Right to Development added that development is a human right: “Everyone is entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development,...
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What happened in our world – the whole world – yesterday? What will happen today? As of July 9th, 2011 the world consists of 196 countries; each country with its own customs, beliefs and over all ways of life. There was a time when distance and governments separated us, but now globalization is unstoppable and continuously reaching new feats: one cannot ignore...
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