by admin | May 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Poverty Venezuela in Words May 29, 2018 | Dennis Ramdahin and Nicole Rampersad Source: Meridith Kohut In the 1950s, Venezuela was seen on the world stage as having the fourth highest GDP per capita and held a coveted position as one of Latin America’s...
by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Haiti’s Reality after Catastrophic Earthquakes May 18, 2018 Nicole Rampersad Image: Timothy Fadek On January 12th 2010, at approx. 4:45pm an earthquake with a magnitude 7.0 struck a severely devastating blow to Haiti, 15 miles southwest of the Haitian capital....
by admin | Oct 27, 2017 | Global Food Security and Food Insecure
Vihara Foundation recognizes farmers and farming communities are “the thread” that make up “the fabric” of local, national and global food security, and their plight, welfare and sustainability is intrinsically tied to the stable functioning of international policies...
by admin | Oct 27, 2017 | Reality of Solving World's Poverty
Sad but true, when we approached Indian movie stars to support and endorse the Rock against Poverty initiative to fight poverty and climate change, their response implied “only if money is paid”…….So, we went to the streets and found some real celebrities – poor...
by admin | Oct 27, 2017 | Reality of Solving World's Poverty
Save The Earth, Save Lives 12 February, 2011 Public School 62, Grade 5, Queens New York By: Dylan Ramdahin You’ve probably seen an ice cream cone melting in the heat, that’s what’s happening to our planet. Every day we emit carbon dioxide into our atmosphere because...
by admin | Oct 27, 2017 | Reality of Solving World's Poverty
DESA News Volume 15, No.2 – February 2011 Feature articles Eradicating poverty, the greatest global challenge Eradicating poverty, the greatest global challenge During the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development in 1995, leaders from across the globe...