Profiling the lives of farmers from Mexico, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, “Challenging Hunger,” a new documentary by Bread for the World and ViewChange, gives some much-needed attention to the 1 billion people across the globe who are affected by food insecurity. By now, you’ve probably heard the alarming statistics that hunger is the world’s No. 1
Bill and Melinda Gates have always approached the fight against hunger, poverty and disease a little differently — instead of focusing on the problem, they focus on the solution and narrow in on what’s working to get things done. This positive spirit is embodied in their foundation’s new and aptly named blog, Impatient Optimists. The
Last week, we asked you to write about what inspires you for our One Act a Week series. We asked this question because we are all frustrated and outraged by the famine in East Africa, but want to remind you that no matter is happening in the world, your voice is critical in helping the
Falko Starr is kind of like the Banksy of South Africa — he creates colorful, imaginative and politically inspired street art that adorns sidewalks and buildings — not museum walls. What’s so interesting about Falko’s work is that it echoes South Africa’s politics and history. He believes that graffiti in Cape Town started as a
Imagine using trash to fight poverty. Well, that’s exactly what Vik Muniz, a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn, accomplished when he traveled to Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest garbage dumps in Brazil, and made art using the waste he found. His creations tell the remarkable story of turning nothing into something and, in this
Do you believe that the wave of Internet innovation is unstoppable? Jason Njoku, a Nigerian tech entrepreneur, certainly does. In an interview for CNN’s African Voices, a talk show about politics, business, literature and the arts, Njoku said that the power of online companies can reap huge profits in Africa. He explains that there is
It’s not a secret that there are skeptics about aid effectiveness or critics of the US budget for international assistance. That’s why I was pleased to learn about the recent work of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which proves that aid can not only be effective, but can also benefit the American economy. An MCC
Last week, I had the huge honor of hearing Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, speak at the Society for International Development (SID) World Conference. Mr. Zoellick’s speech, which kicked off a weekend of workshops and panel discussions with the NGO community, spoke directly to SID’s mission to reappraise and challenge the fundamentals behind
Franz Kafka once said, “All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.” For any intellectually inclined animal lover, these words definitely ring true — especially for young South African photographer Daniel Naudé. Naudé takes striking, solemn and noble photographs of stray dogs in South Africa and other farm
As we learn more about the Horn of Africa crisis, it’s clear that world hunger is a much larger issue than most people realize. To help illustrate this notion, Benjamin D. Henning, a researcher at the University of Sheffield, used data from the Poverty Mapping Project at Columbia University to create this unsettling map of
The growing famine in Somalia has already led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people and has put nearly 12 million lives at risk. Unfortunately, media coverage of this devastating crisis is limited, and it is difficult to discern the magnitude and geographic reach of this worsening famine.
Keeping track of key numbers in the HIV/AIDS epidemic can sometimes be a tricky task. That’s why this new infographic The Changing Face of AIDS from Good Magazine is incredibly useful in understanding the successes and ongoing challenges in the fights against HIV/AIDS. Using information gathered from the Kaiser Family Foundation, UNAID, avert.org and The
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