To Do: Fight World Hunger

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/ten_things
From the Nation:
1 Write letters to the editor and op-ed articles in your local paper calling on the government to cut or end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains and dump their surpluses on the developing world at sub-market prices. This ultimately places poor communities at the mercy of volatile global commodity prices. Learn [...]

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Bring Life Saving Global AIDS Legislation to a Vote Now

The greatly improved and expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is stalled in the Senate’s legislative process. The bill authorizes $50 billion in funding and largely focuses on evidence- and human rights-based treatment, prevention and care programs. It must be passed [...]

ARDC Refugee Shelters in the paper…

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937494.htmlThe ARDC Refugee shelter story made it into both the English and Hebrew version of Ha’aretz today. ARDC, the African Refugee Development Center, is currently running 3 shelters for 350+ African refugees (mostly from Sudan, Ivory Coast, Eritrea and DRC) in southern Tel Aviv. The conditions are horrible. For photos I took, go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrieteicher/sets/72157603146651030/   

ONE.org request

From an email from the one.org campaign:
On the Record Petition

As a member of ONE, I write to ask you to go on the record on where you stand on fighting extreme poverty and global disease that affect the one billion people around the world.
Alleviating suffering and tackling the root causes of global poverty will be [...]

DO SOMETHING!

I think you should do something. I do not expect everyone to go off and spend time/their entire life living in a mud hut without running water and electricity (though you might be surprised how much you like it). You are not expected to quit your job and go and work for one of these [...]

Waiting in The Nyanza “Russian” Hospital

Kisumu, Kenya
Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya, but feels more like a sleepy town in the middle of no where. (I keep needing to redefine where “the middle of no where” is located, because once you’ve been to The Middle Of Nowhere, it is no longer a Nowhere but a Somewhere. Like since [...]

1.5 million people

Coptic Mission HIV Clinic, Nairobi.
This morning the doctor saw a 34 year old woman at the HIV clinic. In the waiting room, there were already roughly 40 people waiting to be seen at 8:30 am. For patients who fit the algorithm they get ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) at no cost. Of course many of them also have TB [...]