Monday, August 27, 2007

poverty

If you bump into Lisa or Sarah in the next 90-something days, give them some money for the 100 Days 100 Dollars campaign (raising money for Kiberia slum in Kenya. Visit their blogs for more info.).

Lisa’s post has generated a bunch of comments about private charity, trade, economics, etc. which interest me since that’s essentially what I’m studying at the moment. It’s great how everyone on the internet is an expert (a criticism that can be applied to me as often as it is applied to anyone else…). Here’s my two cents (for stan :P):

(one of Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoons - “borrowed” from the latest issue of the New Internationalist)

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