Water and Sanitation: Ethiopia

Donna and Philip Berber are the founders of A Glimmer of Hope Foundation. Aptly named, the foundation’s mission is to aid the rural poor of Ethiopia in lifting themselves out of poverty. The foundation’s principles reflect the belief that justice, equality and dignity are everyone’s birthright and where you are born should not determine whether [...]

Water – another global ‘crisis’?

2 February 2009 By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website Sharper, more intense rains may reduce the water available to farmers If you look at the numbers, it is hard to see how many East African communities made it through the long drought of 2005 and 2006. Among people who study human development, it [...]

Hunger and World Poverty

Source: Poverty.com About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The [...]