Aware of the World

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Interesting Find: meet the world campaign.

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spinnellii:

Icaro Doria, a Brazilian man, working for a magazine in Portugal started this campaign using real data from the UN and flag images, he’s created whats known as Meet the World. The colors within the flags from its respective country are used to represent current, geographical relevant issues. Take a look.

United States

Angola

Somalia

China

Colombia

Burkina


This is rather brilliant. 

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mohandaskgandhi: Can we eliminate poverty?  Yes.  We.  Can. Some facts: The number of people living under the international poverty line of $1.25 a day declined from 1.8 billion to 1.4 billion between 1990 and 2005. The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in developing regions dropped from 46 per cent to 27 per cent. The World Bank estimates that the effects of the economic crisis will push an additional 64 million people into extreme poverty in 2010, and that poverty rates will be slightly higher in 2015 and beyond than they would have been without the crisis, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern and South-Eastern Asia. About one in four children under the age of five is underweight in the developing world, down from almost one in three in 1990. Between 1990 and 2008, the proportion of underweight children under five declined from 31 percent to 26 percent in developing regions with particular success in Eastern Asia, notably China. Over a 25-year period, the poverty rate in East Asia fell from nearly 60 per cent to under 20 per cent. Poverty rates are expected to fall to around 5 per cent in China and 24 per cent in India by 2015. Southern Asia alone accounts for almost half the world’s undernourished children. In all developing regions, children in rural areas are nearly twice as likely to be underweight as those in urban areas. In contrast, little progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, where the poverty rate has declined only slightly, from 58 to 51 per cent between 1990 and 2005. The estimate of the number of people who will suffer chronic hunger this year is 925 million, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN — down from 1.023 billion in 2009, but still more than the number of undernourished people in 1990 (about 815 million). There’s still a lot of work to do but poverty is something we can defeat.  Find out how you can help.

mohandaskgandhi:

Can we eliminate poverty?  Yes.  We.  Can.

Some facts:

  • The number of people living under the international poverty line of $1.25 a day declined from 1.8 billion to 1.4 billion between 1990 and 2005.
  • The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in developing regions dropped from 46 per cent to 27 per cent.
  • The World Bank estimates that the effects of the economic crisis will push an additional 64 million people into extreme poverty in 2010, and that poverty rates will be slightly higher in 2015 and beyond than they would have been without the crisis, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern and South-Eastern Asia.
  • About one in four children under the age of five is underweight in the developing world, down from almost one in three in 1990.
  • Between 1990 and 2008, the proportion of underweight children under five declined from 31 percent to 26 percent in developing regions with particular success in Eastern Asia, notably China.
  • Over a 25-year period, the poverty rate in East Asia fell from nearly 60 per cent to under 20 per cent. Poverty rates are expected to fall to around 5 per cent in China and 24 per cent in India by 2015.
  • Southern Asia alone accounts for almost half the world’s undernourished children. In all developing regions, children in rural areas are nearly twice as likely to be underweight as those in urban areas.
  • In contrast, little progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, where the poverty rate has declined only slightly, from 58 to 51 per cent between 1990 and 2005.
  • The estimate of the number of people who will suffer chronic hunger this year is 925 million, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN — down from 1.023 billion in 2009, but still more than the number of undernourished people in 1990 (about 815 million).

There’s still a lot of work to do but poverty is something we can defeat.  Find out how you can help.

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He is a Chief Master Sergeant in the USAF serving in Afghanistan.  As high as you can go in enlisted ranks (E-9).  Wouldn’t it be fitting if this went completely around the world!  John Gebhardt’s wife, Mindy, said that this little girl’s entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head…but they failed to kill her.  She was cared for in John ‘s hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan.  The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.  He is a real Star of the war, and represents what the combined service is trying to do.  This, my friends, is worth sharing. Go for it!! You’ll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don’t, but the world needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that what we’re doing over there is making a difference.  Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

He is a Chief Master Sergeant in the USAF serving in Afghanistan.  As high as you can go in enlisted ranks (E-9).  Wouldn’t it be fitting if this went completely around the world!  John Gebhardt’s wife, Mindy, said that this little girl’s entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head…but they failed to kill her.  She was cared for in John ‘s hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan.  The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing.  He is a real Star of the war, and represents what the combined service is trying to do.  This, my friends, is worth sharing. Go for it!! You’ll never see things like this in the news. Please keep this going. Nothing will happen if you don’t, but the world needs to see pictures like this and needs to realize that what we’re doing over there is making a difference. 


Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

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Most kids wake up to a loving parent, or an alarm clock. I wake up to a bloody nose and sprained wrist. Most kids eat a healthy breakfast. I eat whatever I can if there is any.Most kids have a different uniform everyday. I wear the same one.Most kids have lots of friends. I might have one.Most kids don’t get bullied day-to-day. I’m lucky to not get bullied three times a day.When most kids get home their parents say hello and fix dinner. I get shoved against a wall and am unconscious for atleast an hour.When most kids go to bed, they are snuggled warm under covers having wonderful dreams. I am laying on the floor beging to not wake up the next morning.   Reblog if you are against child abuse. This won’t ruin your blog. Have a heart.

Most kids wake up to a loving parent, or an alarm clock. I wake up to a bloody nose and sprained wrist.

Most kids eat a healthy breakfast. I eat whatever I can if there is any.
Most kids have a different uniform everyday. I wear the same one.
Most kids have lots of friends. I might have one.
Most kids don’t get bullied day-to-day. I’m lucky to not get bullied three times a day.
When most kids get home their parents say hello and fix dinner. I get shoved against a wall and am unconscious for atleast an hour.
When most kids go to bed, they are snuggled warm under covers having wonderful dreams. I am laying on the floor beging to not wake up the next morning. 

 Reblog if you are against child abuse.

This won’t ruin your blog. Have a heart.

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