By Valerie Sherrard
There is enough. That’s the thing that’s so disturbing about poverty. Planet earth isn’t poor. There’s more than enough food to go around. There’s more than enough everything. Food, money and resources are all present in abundance. Wealth and plenty flow like water in opulent societies. [...]
By Iris Nowell
Today’s poverty is commonly defined as a person surviving on less than a dollar a day, which applies to one-quarter of the world’s population, or roughly one billion people. This is beyond gravely concerning, it is inhumane. Some 20,000 people die every day because they are too hungry, too sick, and just too [...]