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Live a Little, Give a Little - Celebrate Blog Action Day by Letting Go
This year's theme for Blog Action Day is Poverty. Who could have predicted that financial woes would be so uppermost in so many people's consciousness this month? But true poverty is more than just struggling to make ends meet. Take a look at the U.S. thresholds for the official definition of poverty. Is there any way you could feed your family at that level? I think it would be tough, even with the help of food stamps or public assistance.
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A Cry for HELP
This is the story of a 1 year 2 month old boy born to an 18 year old mother on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. This report/plea for assistance came in recently from a Philippine Physician at one of the remote rural clinics HELP visited during "Needs Assessment" operations recently.
Learn how you can help at the end of this story.
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GIS Proposal Roundup and General Thoughts
Hi, everyone; my name is JC, and this is my first community blog post. I’m one of the authors of the HungerMaps proposal. I’m also a GIS enthusiast, so I wanted to bring your attention to the great GIS projects that have been submitted to this contest.
HungerMaps
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
35.1 mil Americans face hunger and food insecurity. HungerMaps fuses new visualization and collaborative technology with the wisdom of advocates, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action.
NYC Coalition Against Hunger: Mapping Project
New York City Coalition Against Hunger www.nyccah.org |
This case study describes a unique mapping project now being undertaken by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, an umbrella group for New York's more than 1,100 charitable soup kitchens and food pantries. Most social service agencies exist in a culture of scarcity, unable to inves... |
Campus Bread
Bread for the World www.breadblog.org/ |
The authors of Campus Bread are interns, fellows and campus organizers with Bread for the World and and the ONE Campaign Here is the Vision Statement for their blog: "This is... |
