If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep at night, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the one million who will not survive this week due [...]
Tag Archives | Poverty
How Many Slaves Are Working for You?
You may be surprised to hear this, but slavery did not end with the abolition movement. Abraham Lincoln and countless other freedom fighters around the world make huge strides for the cause of emancipation, but even today human trafficking and involuntary servitude are massive and often unknown global issues. According to TraffickFree.org, there are actually [...]
5 Amazing Stories from Go Inspire Go’s 50/50 Campaign
Many have written about the ability of social media to disperse information and create networks, but is it affecting any real social change? There are plenty of examples of social networking platforms playing essential roles in social movements, often in an organic, if scattered and chaotic, fashion. But the folks at Go Inspire Go (GIG) [...]
The Bangladesh Garment Factory Tragedy – 10 Sweatshop-Free Clothing Companies
When we buy an item of clothing from a mall or outlet in the United States, we often don’t think about the hundreds, even thousands, of people laboring in factories around the world to bring these fashions to the racks. The weight of this reality hit home, however, after news surfaced on Wednesday of the [...]
Deepak Chopra: Is This the End of the World?
Imagine a world in which a tiny minority owns the majority of the wealth and resources, while billions of others are impoverished and disenfranchised. Sound familiar? Human beings are no strangers to disaster and despair, and if any apocalypse comes our way, it will likely be by our hands. In this week’s episode of “The [...]
Shameless Dancing on Margaret Thatcher’s Grave
The news of Margaret Thatcher’s death has been surprisingly sobering to me. It brought on a quiet mood from me. I hadn’t ever answered the questions I’d been asking myself about her. And now she’s gone. What do I feel about that? I think of where I grew up in the 80′s - in a [...]
Saving Lives One Bead At A Time
We just heard two inspiring, heart wrenching, gut churning, funny, amazing life stories, from two Ugandan women, Joan and Teddy, who lifted themselves out of dire poverty and suffering by making and selling paper beads. The poverty is huge. For example, Millie lives on $1 a day earned from crushing rocks in a quarry, and [...]
10 Ways to Help the World This Holiday Season
By Kathryn Hawkins, from Razoo.com, the site for charitable giving. The giving season isn’t just about exchanging gifts with friends and family, or watching your kids eagerly check the contents of their stockings to see what Santa brought them. While the holidays are the perfect time to share presents with the people that you love, [...]
3 Tips to Get Over a Bad Break-Up
Being in a relationship is a wonderful experience. Unfortunately, not all wonderful experiences are meant to last. In fact, more often than not when a relationship ends it is typically over faster for one person than the other. The worst relationship breakups occur when one person just wants out and the other person desperately wants [...]
Breathing, Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery
Sometimes when people are walking their pathway toward recovery from an addiction they tend to look only towards the big picture. This means that they miss out on the small details that can help in the day to day issues that everyone faces when making life changes. One of the most overlooked aspects of personal [...]
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