BAM heads to Ghana

Across Ghana citizens are prepping for Obama’s visit by donning shirts with images of the U.S. leader while street vendors are stocking miniature American flags.

“The fact that his father is African and he picked us makes us special,” said Adrian Landry, general manager of a beach hotel in the capital, Accra.

During his one-day visit, Obama will meet with Ghanaian president John Atta Mills, who took office in January.

14-year-old helps dozens in Kenya

Most people wouldn’t consider the task of raising tens of thousands of dollars a child’s job, but 14-year-old Emily Blake hasn’t been hindered by the adult mentality of the impossible.

While attending a summer camp in 2007, Emily, then 12, heard the disturbing statistic that more than 25,000 children living in poverty die each day from such preventable causes as poor hygiene and lack of food. The preteen looked around at her world and knew it didn’t have to be this way, so she decided to do something about it.

Poor hit hardest as the Earth heats up

Earlier this week, Oxfam released a new report tying poverty and climate change together. Basically, the report shows how the effects climate changes, like global warming, impact people in third-world communities a lot more and harder than people in the developed world.

The report reads: “Climate change is happening today and the world’s poorest people, who already face a daily struggle to survive, are being hit hardest.”

Warm weather equals surge in homelessness

Many see summer as a time for vacations and lazy days under the sun, but the warm weather brings a slew of issues for poor families, including a growing number of families in homeless shelters.