Global Poverty
Tips, tools and facts
What is the Poverty Line, anyway? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it's a family of four (two adults, two children) that...
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart follows one Nigerian villager’s clash with European colonization in 1890’s Africa. This...
Community development
The long-term process whereby people who are marginalized or living in poverty work together to...
Nearly half the world – over three billion people – live on less than $2.50 a day.
According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000...
What's the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade? Free trade advocates and fair trade advocates have a lot of goals in...
Chocolate can be bittersweet, and we don’t mean literally. While chocolate has many benefits to your health, some facts about...
Hunger emergencies are gauged by a system called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), originally created...
One in five adults in the developing world — almost 862 million people — cannot read or write.
Most illiterate persons are...
As a New Orleans native, Brandan lived through Hurricane Katrina. He has dedicated himself to improving the lives of his...
Myth: There isn’t enough food to feed the world
Reality: There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the...
Seth was a 19-year-old acting student in Los Angeles when a brief meeting with a friend who’d just returned from Africa changed...
John Steinbeck's famous novel is not just a story of a migrant family during the Great Depression. It's also a clear call to...
In the past 60 years, vaccines have helped eradicate one disease (smallpox) and are close to eradicating another (polio)....
Adam is among 5 finalists up for a $100,000 Grand Prize at this year's Do Something Awards on Vh1. Check out what inspired Adam...
Long before South Africa hosted the World Cup, Africa's most diverse country was plagued with racial inequality. Alan Paton, a...
