www.theendofpoverty.com
www.theendofpoverty.com
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
? 2010 ? Poverty Symposium ?
A consultant for the Maine CAP Association reports that plans are under way for a Spring 2010 Poverty Symposium.
Please check back and we will post details as they become available.
You can also keep checking their website: www.endingpovertyinmaine.org for new developments - or even some signs of life!
Please check back and we will post details as they become available.
You can also keep checking their website: www.endingpovertyinmaine.org for new developments - or even some signs of life!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
2008 Maine Symposium on Poverty - www.endingpovertyinmaine.org
Maine Symposium on Poverty,
Economic & Food Security
Economic & Food Security
October 27, 2008
at the Augusta Civic Center
In the year 2008, in a nation with the largest economy in the world, there are more than 37 million people living in poverty and far more unable to make ends meet. We have the highest child poverty rate of all industrialized nations. Here in Maine, there are more than 130,000 people living in poverty including more than 14 percent of all children.
Poverty exacts a human and financial toll that has become too great to bear. It is a condition that hinders human and community development. It constrains budgets and stilts economic growth. To better our communities and labor force and to allow all Maine people the opportunity to flourish, we will have to rethink the way we fight poverty.
Join us at this year’s poverty symposium as we evaluate past policies, ponder underutilized resources, and propose new ideas for ending poverty.
There is no cost to attend the Symposium.
Click here for results from the 2007 Symposium.
Contact Information: Susan Richards Western Maine Community Action
Mailing Address:
Susan Richards
Western Maine Community Action
PO Box 200, East Wilton, Maine 04234
E-Mail:
For General Information - srichards@wmca.org
PLEASE NOTE: You may register by calling Susan at 645-3764 ext. 5280.
You may either fill your form out and submit online, or print out a form using the link below, following mailing instructions on the form.
Click here for Printable Form
Space is limited - reserve your space early.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Bono, U2 lead singer and founder of the ONE Campaign
Bono, U2 lead singer and founder of the ONE Campaign, urges world leaders to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals to end extreme poverty. To see more and take action, visit www.youtube.com/inmyname
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu7Nf209KDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu7Nf209KDI
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Pope urges Australian youths to spurn materialism
Pope urges Australian youths to spurn materialism
By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer
Sun Jul 20, 7:29 AM ET
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday a "spiritual desert" was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind.
Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely television audience of millions more, Benedict wrapped up the church's six-day World Youth Day festival. He urged the young people in his more than 1 billion-strong flock to be agents of change because "the world needs renewal."
"In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair," the pontiff said.
The appeal came as Benedict finished a visit to Australia that touched on the themes that have defined his three-year-old papacy, including the struggle to rejuvenate a crisis-battered Church, reaching out to other faiths and raising global warming as an important issue.
The appeal came as Benedict finished a visit to Australia that touched on the themes that have defined his three-year-old papacy, including the struggle to rejuvenate a crisis-battered Church, reaching out to other faiths and raising global warming as an important issue.
The 81-year-old pope said it was up to a new generation of Christians to build a world in "which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished — not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed."
They must embrace the power of God "to let it break through the curse of our indifference, our spiritual weariness, our blind conformity to the spirit of this age," he said.
The aim was "a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption which deadens our souls and poisons our relationships," he said.
The Mass came a day after the pope made a forceful apology for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the United States to publicly atone for what he called evil acts by priests.
The Mass was delivered at a horse racetrack filled with pilgrims who had camped out overnight.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said 350,000 attended Sunday's Mass. Australian organizers surmised a global television audience of up to 500 million during big World Youth Day events.
Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said 350,000 attended Sunday's Mass. Australian organizers surmised a global television audience of up to 500 million during big World Youth Day events.
The pope flew over the scene early Sunday in a helicopter — dubbed "the holy-copter" by bleary-eyed pilgrims below — to see the assemblage swarmed all over the track in a jumble of sleeping bags, backpacks and other personal items.
He later took a slow drive through the crowd, stopping once to plant a kiss on the forehead of a toddler held up to the popemobile's window. Pilgrims from more than 160 countries gave him a rock-star welcome, waving the flags of their nations, cheering and chanting: "Benedicto! Benedicto!" — the pope's Italian name.
The pope was due to leave Australia for the Vatican on Monday. He announced that Madrid, Spain, would host the next World Youth Day in 2011 and told the pilgrims: "I look forward to seeing you again in three years' time."
Benedict, who shrugged off the effects of a longer-than 20-hour flight from Rome and kept a hectic schedule during his time in Australia, coughed a couple of times during Sunday's Mass and at one point blew his nose, prompting reporters to ask about his health.
"It was chilly, and everybody felt it, no?" Lombardi said. "But he is in fine health."
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Associated Press Writer Victor L. Simpson in Sydney contributed to this report.
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Associated Press Writer Victor L. Simpson in Sydney contributed to this report.
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