Children’s Aid
Each site has articles about children and the various crises they are experiencing around
the world.
General Research Support Resources
CIA Factbook – Includes maps, background information, etc.
iEARN: Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new
technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Global Poverty and Women Instructional Unit at NOW w/Bill Moyers – This may prove helpful.
http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/women.html
http://www.savethechildren.org
Food Relief Picture Gallery
http://www.worldvision.org/
http://www.unicefusa.org/
Relief Web
http://www.care-international.org/
AIDS Orphans
Id21 Global Issues
Mercy Corps
DataOrg
Genocide Watch
Prevent Genocide
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide Watch
Genocide in Darfur
Rwanda: Abandoned to Genocide
The Cambodia Killing Fields Exhibition
Genocide in the 20th Century at History Place
Triumph of Evil Exhibit at Frontline: Rwandan Genocide of 1994
Ghosts of Rwanda Exhibition at Frontline
Genocide Intervention Network
The Forgotten: Armenian Genocide
Morning Edition NPR (audio too) AIDS Orphans of Zambia
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2000/001228.zambia.html
Daily Life in Zambia
http://www.outreach-international.org/page/127
Articles – Zambia and AIDS
http://www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=1466&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=ZAMBIA
Zambia – Water and Sanitation
http://www.irc.nl/page/16125
The Poor of Zambia Speak
http://www.eldis.ids.ac.uk/static/DOC10992.htm
Zambia Child Sex Workers - Global Health Council
http://globalhealth.org/news/article/2330
CARE Zambia
http://carezambia.org/
Medguide AIDS Orphans and Widows
http://www.medguide.org.zm/aidsbibl/impact3.htm
Times of Zambia
http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=all&id=1079316941
Zambia Drought
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1710318,00.html
Central African Daily Mail (news)
http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.htm
Poor in America
My Friend’s Place – Voices and Stories
http://myfriendsplace.org/storiesvoices.html
Children’s Defense Fund – Article about Poverty Increasing
http://www.childrensdefense.org/pressreleases/2003/030926.aspx
National Center for Children in Poverty
http://www.nccp.org/pub_cpt05b.html
Poor Children in America
http://www.nsf.gov/news/frontiers_archive/3-96/3childrn.jsp
Habitat World Poor in America
http://www.habitat.org/hw/Oct-Nov99/feature_1.html
Food Insecure at Thanksgiving
http://www.secondharvest.org/news_room/2005_News_Releases/112305.html
Feeding Hurricane Victims - Wilma
http://www.secondharvest.org/news_room/2005_News_Releases/092805.html
Katrina Tax Relief Not Enough
http://www.secondharvest.org/news_room/2005_News_Releases/092305.html
Homeless in America – Photo Exhibition at AOL
http://memberpictures.aol.com/aolvisions/if/homeless
“Hard Work Hard Times” Personal Stores
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/workingpoor/
How Many Children Are Poor?
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq6.htm
What does it Mean to Be Poor In America?
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1996/05/art1abs.htm
A Day in the Life of a Homeless Person – Truth Out
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9262
Panhandling Article by a Former Panhandler
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/panhandle.html
Why Are People Homeless? (and other articles)
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/publications/facts.html
Runaways and Homelessness in America – Childrens’ League
http://www.cwla.org/articles/cv0107life.htm
Working Poor in America
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2004-06-08-low-wage-working-poor_x.htm
Working Poor PBS Personal Stories
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus/resources/essays7.html
Child Poverty at Hearts and Minds
http://www.heartsandminds.org/articles/childpov.htm
Louisiana’s Poor and Floodwater Snakes
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1998942005
Global
Causes of Hunger and Poverty ay Global Issues
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Hunger.asp
India Famine at National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0621_bamboo.html
Info Change Poverty in India
http://www.infochangeindia.org/PovertyIh.jsp?section_id=7&detailurl=Poverty
Child Poverty in India
http://www.indianchild.com/poverty_in_india.htm
Quotes from the Poor
http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/poverty/voices/listen-findings.htm
Voices of the Poor Reports from WorldBank
http://www1.worldbank.org/prem/poverty/voices/reports.htm
UNDP Children and Poverty in India
http://hdrc.undp.org.in/childrenandpoverty/default.htm
Young Brides Pay Price of Poverty in Africa
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/27/news/brides.php
Poverty in Africs from World Bank
http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/poverty/default.cfm
Food Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa W/Clips from BBC REPORT
http://www.concern.net/pressroom/niger/index.php?gclid=CJGeqbmt8IECFRR2LAodmAyd3A
Stories form the Field – Cambodia and Elsewhere
http://www.ifad.org/media/success/index.htm
Poverty Mapping
http://www.povertymap.net/
Global Poverty report
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Reports/Global_Poverty/default.asp
Cambodian Genocide Project
http://www.yale.edu/cgp/
The American Foundation for AIDS Research
American Red Cross
Amnesty International
Child Welfare
League of America
Children Helping
Poor and Homeless
People
City of Hope
Dream Street Foundation
The Earth Angels
Foundation
Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation
End Hunger Network