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Care: Virtual Field Trips Archive: Guatemala
Take a virtual field trip to Guatemala along with eight high school students from Atlanta and Chicago as they work with Guatemalan families to fight poverty.
Other
The Feminization of Poverty: Past and Future
Very extensive report on the poverty trends among females in the U.S. and the reasons for these trends. Also contains information on recent and past poverty rates and ratios.
World Food Programme
Wfp: World Food Programme
WFP is a United Nations organization whose mission is to eradicate global hunger and poverty. Their primary beneficiaries are victims of natural disasters, displaced people, the world's hungry poor, and women.
World Food Programme
Free Rice
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Feed the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs
This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
This collection uses primary sources to explore Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun.
British Library
British Library: Dickens's a Christmas Carol: Poverty, Money and Miserliness
In this activity, students will consider the economic and political context that informs Charles Dickens's famous novella, A Christmas Carol.
British Library
British Library: Barrett Browning's Poetry: Social & Political Commentary
Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the techniques...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History Period 6: 1865 1898: Social Darwinism & Gilded Age
The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and the Gilded Ages are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...
Digital History
Digital History: The Civil Rights Movement Moves North
Summers of the late 1960s was a time of widespread violence and rioting in the nation's major inner cities. What was previously thought of as a problem of the South had spread nation-wide and was now demanding immediate attention.
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Global Policy Forum: Inequality of Wealth
Inequality of wealth in both the U.S. and world is a controversial topic. This site from the Global Policy Forum contains a series of articles that address this topic. Great for student research.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Doing Without
This non-prose piece share what it would be like to go without having many material possessions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Joab: The Class Prefect
This video from Wide Angle profiles Joab, a boy from Kibera, Kenya, who has returned to school after dropping out following his mother's death. Joab is chosen class prefect by the other students.
US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Income
This U.S. Census website gives current and past information on the income of Americans.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Introducing Global Development
This exercise has five objectives: to find out how big the gap between rich and poor is, to learn a little more about the issues facing people with limited access to food around the world and the features and extent of malnutrition, to...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Agencies Get Millions for Homeless
This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "Agencies Get Millions for Homeless" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords,...
Other
The Oas and the Inter American System
This site on the The OAS and the Inter-American System provides history, key dates, original and current member states, past and present secretaries general, and more.
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Ima World Health
This is the homepage of the IMA World Health, whose mission is to provide essential products and services for emergency, health and development programs of interest to members, which serve people in need without regard to ethnicity,...
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National Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization at Columbia University. On their site you can find numerous resources, news stories/publications, and state profiles, plus...
Other
Action Aid International
This resource provides information about poverty stricken countries and regions throughout the world, along with information about how to help.
Other
Cmmb: Catholic Medical Mission Board
Non-profit organization focused on the healthcare of people around the globe. Find resources about CMMB, its history, current programs, etc.
Other
International Relief Teams
This international relief organization is "dedicated to organizing volunteer teams to provide medical and non-medical assistance to the victims of disaster and profound poverty worldwide".
Other
Concern Usa: Worldwide
"Non-denominational, voluntary organization committed to the relief, assistance and advancement of peoples in need in less developed areas of the world."
Oxfam
Oxfam: Ethiopia
Learn about the anti-poverty efforts of the international aid agency Oxfam in Ethiopia, as well as general facts and information about the people and environment in Ethiopia, in this Oxfam country profile page.