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Poverty
Over one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day.
Homelessness
1 in 3 homeless people in the US are under the age of 18. Homeless youth are up to ten times more…
Hunger
The financial crisis is causing a growing number of middle class working families to seek food assistance…
Malaria And Preventable Disease
Malaria is just one of a number of preventable diseases that claims millions of lives every year…
Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, 189 nations came together and made a promise to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015.
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January 21, 2010 marks the one year anniversary of the Obama administration. Young people voted in historic numbers for Barack Obama (and Senator McCain) last year. And although too young to vote, teens were politically active in record numbers. We wondered, how are those young people feeling one year later? DoSomething.org surveyed teens and young people to discover whether they are standing by their man one year later.
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WFP pulls aid from Somalia due to violence
Yesterday the World Food Program announced a partial suspension in their food distribution efforts in southern Somalia due to threats and attacks from militant groups in the region.
The result? They estimate more than 1 million people in that area will go hungry. The agency released a statement saying they are “deeply concerned about rising hunger and suffering among the most vulnerable due to these unprecedented and inhumane attacks on purely humanitarian operations.”
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