CARE Kenya Providing New Opportunities Through Empowering Individuals and Communities CARE International is a non-political, non-religious global network of humanitarian organizations with a goal to reduce poverty. It was founded in 1946 with a mission to help individuals and families living in the poorest communities in the world get out of poverty. According to Tom Ewart (2005), CARE also helps to promote innovative solutions and lasting change by strengthening capacity for self-help, providing
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Companies for a long time have strived to be successful and going global is the ultimate business goal of any large company. Because there are other countries selling similar products and services global competition is no secret. Wal-Mart is one of those companies that went global and did it quickly. They became the largest retail stores in the world which now employs a whopping 2.1 million people global wide. In order to go global, Wal-Mart had to make choices on how they wanted to go about it and
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give a typical human being the intellect on how to overcome obstacles in life. Unfortunately, this cannot happen; it mainly can’t happen to females. Lack of education for women, primarily caused by social obligations and social beliefs, is having a global importance by making other countries seem more educated. Pakistan is eminent primarily for its history and governing system. It is a country located in Asia and is one of the fewest countries in the world that give more preference to males. They
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families, their communities and the world as a whole. Undernutrition is, by the same logic, devastating. It blunts the intellect, saps the productivity of everyone it touches and perpetuates poverty. Stunting - or low height for age - traps people into a lifelong cycle of poor nutrition, illness, poverty and inequity. The damage to physical and cognitive development, especially during the first two years of a child’s life, is largely irreversible. A child’s poorer school performance results in
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2000, the United Nations introduced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as part of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The MDGs were established to attempt to improve overall well-being for as many people as possible, and targets issues such as poverty, starvation, and disease. This paper will focus on the development goal of achieving universal primary education, specifically focusing on the country of Ethiopia. Achieving universal primary education is important because it acts as a building
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SCI/275 10/12/2010 Joanne Massi There is a global issue at hand relating to our environment. It is one that tends to get overlooked due to issues like global warming, oil spills, water related issues, etc. It is forest destruction, or Deforestation, as it is often referred to. Simply put, Deforestation is the clearing of the Earths forests on a very large scale. This is a worldwide epidemic, and generally in mainstream society, it is an issue that is largely put aside in its importance. While
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Human Trafficking in the United States Human trafficking has been an ongoing issue in the United States affecting millions of innocent lives each day. The practice of this so called modern slavery has evolved in a completely inhumane way and it is an activity as old as history itself. Our society is one where the atrocious beatings owners gave their slaves are considered history. We live in a society that knows little about the severity of a crime that is still alive today and that is gaining
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About Grameen Trust Grameen Trust (GT) came into being in 1989 with the sole objective of turning the Grameen philosophy into reality by working alongside those struggling to remove poverty. Grameen Trust is committed to the cause of poverty alleviation, promoting the Grameen Bank Approach (GBA) and providing financial and technical support to Grameen Bank Replication Projects (GBRPs) worldwide. It also directly implements microcredit programs in areas where there is no sustainable microcredit
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strengthen co-operation among themselves in international forums on matters of common interest; and • to co-operate with international and regional organisations with similar aims and purposes. • to maintain peace in the region Area of Cooperation Poverty Alleviation Recognizing the
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GLOBALIZATION, EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY IN GHANA Ernest Aryeetey1 1. INTRODUCTION One of the most significant influences on the performance of the economy of Ghana in the last two decades has been derived from the greater interaction between it and other economies. Thus, following economic reforms that focused considerably on opening the economy to greater and freer external trade, globalization has been a major aspect of the economy and society. But this influence has been observed not only
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