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Poverty - Features
Development with Purpose in Haiti
Written by Roxanne Wieman   
Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:00

Development with Purpose in Haiti
While some organizations entered Haiti for the first time after the January earthquake, others have been helping the country for years. Among those is Plant with Purpose, an organization dedicated to development and helping those living in extreme poverty rise above their circumstances. Here, we talk to Plant with Purpose founder Scott Sabin about how Haiti’s turbulent past has affected its people, his organization’s focus in the country and how misapplied aid can ruin Haiti’s long-term development.

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Helping Haiti from the Inside Out
Written by Roxanne Wieman   
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:15

Helping Haiti from the Inside OutNearly seven months after the earthquake in Haiti, there is still much to be done. Here, we talk to Laura Blank of World Vision, who is working in the country, about barriers to rebuilding, how WV partners with the local church and how the Haitian people are receiving emotional care beyond the basics.

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Silvia's Fight for Equality
Written by Samuel Llanes   
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:26

Silvia's Fight for EqualityBorn and raised in Ixtahuacán, Huehuetenango, a town very close to the Guatemala-Mexico border, Silvia’s childhood was very hard.

Beautiful green mountains, fresh air and a quiet small town were the landscapes that surrounded Silvia throughout her childhood and adolescence. But she had to make her best efforts to break the many barriers that tried to stop her from becoming a successful woman in a culture that often sees and treats women as feeble.

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Employing a Radical Vision
Written by Josh Loveless   
Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00

Employing a Radical Vision
Eugene Cho has a simple idea to combat a complex issue: What would happen if everyone donated one day of their pay to fight extreme poverty? His idea came to fruition last year when he and his wife, Minhee, launched the aptly named One Day’s Wages. In six months, they’ve raised more than $300,000, awarded a grant to an organization in Thailand and fully funded the building of a border outpost between Nepal and India that will help rescue hundreds of girls from sex slavery every year—a project with one of their partners, Not For Sale. Here, we talk with Cho about ODW, the nonprofit trend and the need for passion combined with education.

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Serving Opportunity and Hope
Written by Catherine Newhouse   
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:45

Now Serving: Opportunity and HopeIn a world where a bite of fast food is cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetables, processed goods line the walls of food banks and soup kitchen gruel lacks key nutrients, being low-income means running on a toxin-rich diet.

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