Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAMCXVX27136; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:33:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:33:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <2AAD321A-FE16-11D6-900F-000393ABE4D2@litwomen.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "mev@litwomen.org" <mev@litwomen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:970] Re: hunger in USA X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2643 Lines: 75 it's not as simple as "poverty" or "lack of education" -- there are numbers of working families who need food assistance. sorry - I don't have information at my finger tips - but I was under the impression that the problem's around hunger is with distribution - in fact, there IS enough food for the world and the hungry - we just don't distribute it well or justly or humanely. Some websites to explore: Food Share - http://www.foodshare.net/ Minnesota Food Share (there are several in the US) has a fact sheet that's interesting - http://www.gmcc.org/MFS/ Bread for the World has information as well - http://www.bread.org/ -- their faq sheet may be useful - http://www.bread.org/hungerbasics/faq.html FoodFirst also has a wealth of information as well. - http://www.foodfirst.org/ - a searh on this site for "food distribution" scored a number of hits. another interesting site is the Hunger Web - http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/ hope this helps Mev - On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 11:41 PM, Margarita Oliver wrote: > As I see it, "hunger" -- in today's world -- is at least related to a > lack > of education. I believe that every poor community in every state is > made up > largely of undereducated, underliterate adults and older youth. This > population is almost totally ignored in Texas, but I believe this is > true in > every state. Open-minded ATTENTION to this could begin alleviating it > immediately. State Education Boards' emphasis on ratcheting up the > "standards" (egged on by Business) without one iota of attention to > raising > the level of education in the poor communities -- red, yellow, brown, > black, > or white -- is an exercise in futility, "leaving behind" a whole > population > of perfectly intelligent people who feel like nobodies. > Peg Thompson Oliver > -----Original Message----- > From: Harry Forster <hforster@strato.net> > To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> > Date: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:45 AM > Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:967] hunger in USA > > >> I know a student doing a paper at Rutgers on hunger in the USA. When >> he >> reads books and papers he sees that the problem is solved with >> privatization. When he contacts private organizations they are >> overwhelmed. Does anyone have insight to this problem? >> >> Thanks for your cooperation and help >> >> Harry >> > > > WE LEARN Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network www.litwomen.org/welearn.html Mev Miller, Ed.D., Coordinator 160 Gano St. Providence, RI 02906 401-383-4374 401-270-1167 (fax) welearn@litwomen.org
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