World Hunger Reaches 1 Billion People Mark

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Greetings and peace be with you HopeFul; thanks for mentioning coco.

The irony is coco beans countries are poor, which make luxury chocolates and drinks for the rich countries,
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Chocolate is a bit of an indulgence, but did you know that a large percentage of coco is grown using child slave labour

http://www.stopthetraffik.org/getInvolved/act/chocolate/chocolate.aspx

Check the following link to find brands of chocolate that guarantee they do not use slave labour.

http://www.stopthetraffik.org/getInvolved/act/chocolate/chocolateguides.aspx

In the spirit of praying for justice for all people

Eric
 
Greetings and peace be with you all
In the 1970’s the cheapest 20 inch colour tv cost £200, allowing for inflation it should cost around £500 to £600, but you can pick them up for around a £100.

Thanks to child slave labour in places like the copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we can buy our electrical goods dirt cheap

To commemorate World Day Against Child Labour, BBC News has spent a day with child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who work for about one dollar per day. At Ruashi mine, in the Eastern province of Katanga, almost 800 children dig for copper and cobalt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/5071172.stm
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The western consumer world really does exploit the poor and oppressed, and that includes me and you.

In the spirit of praying for justice for all people

Eric
 
Greetings and peace be with you all,

Debt

For every £1 given in aid, £9 is taken back in debt repayments. Debt is a major problem. In the 1960s and 1970s, Developing Countries took out loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and rich countries. The debts have to be paid back with interest, and countries often end up owing far more than they can afford to pay back. The IMF then imposes “Structural Adjustment Programmes”, which forces the country to cut down on healthcare and education, so they can pay the debt.

Africa’s interest repayments cost four times as much as is spent on health care.

In Zambia, between 1990 and 1993, debt repayments cost 34 times as much as the country was able to spend on primary school education – education spending fell by more than 80%.

Trade

Rich Developed Countries buy goods such as sugar, cotton and coffee from the poor South. However, poor countries receive low prices because people in the North want cheap groceries. This keeps people in poverty.

Education and child labour

250 million+ children between 5 and 14 work (often dangerously) in factories, fields, and on the streets. In the poorest countries, most adults cannot read or write. Most children never get a secondary education because they work to bring in money for the family. Most of these are girls.

Lack of education brings problems such as:
• People can not change their lives
• Fewer employment opportunities
• It makes receiving health education much more difficult.

Rich countries need education, too. They do not deliberately buy goods from companies that cheat the poor - they simply do not know what is going on.
http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/shortcourse/poverty/causes.htm

In the spirit of praying for justice for all people

Eric
 
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Greetings and peace be with you BoredAgnostic;
This may be a slight digression..but whether it is because of misogyny, ignorance, religious adherence, lack of contraceptives, etc
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Is religion a help or a hindrance, in matters of world poverty and why?

In the spirit of praying for justice for all people

Eric
 
Wake up people! Donate to charity inshaAllaah... and that will be better for you indeed...
 

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